Bún chả
Charcoal-grilled pork patties served with rice noodles, herbs, and a sweet-tart fish-sauce broth.
- Where to find it
- Lunch-only smoke drifts out of alleys all over the Old Quarter; the Hàng Mành and Ngõ Gạch areas are the classic hunting grounds.
- When it is sold
- Strictly lunch — roughly 10:30am to 2pm. A bún chả place open at 8pm is cooking for tourists.
- What it costs
- 50,000–90,000 VND
How to order it
It is a dipping dish, not a soup. Drop noodles and herbs into the broth bowl a few at a time; do not pour the broth over the noodles.
We list neighbourhoods rather than street numbers: Hanoi stalls move, and a wrong address is worse than none. The guides below name specific places we stand behind.
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