Living There
Hanoi Old Quarter is the ideal destination for all visitors. The small town with narrow roads have motorbikes, cyclos, and street vendors with shoulder-poles hanging pendulous burdens of local produce or old houses built at 18th century. All make a picture fascinates to tourists.
Don’t forget to tasting street food here
Once you visit Hanoi, don’t miss an exploration in the Old Quarter. Take time to explore the culture or Vietnamese cuisine in Hanoi.
The best way to explore the Old Quarter is you can either walk yourself or do the hanoi street food tour if you want to secure the full experience.
Hanoi is home to 7 million people. In a section of town called the Old Quarter, you can find out the authentic Hanoi and discover interesting things which you only witness in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Passing winding streets, you’ll be surprised at busy life of locals. The streets of Hanoi are filled with street kitchens where locals eat street food cooked in front of them. Dishes served on the sidewalks by tiny plastic tables and chairs. You’ll be impressed with Vietnamese traditional foods such as steamed rice roll, fried spring rolls, chicken noodle soup or enjoy draught beer at the bustling corner Ta Hien to catch the daily life. You’ll explore the different flavours of Vietnam.
So when you arrive in Hanoi you’ll see many things you want to try but let start the culinary adventure yourself or take the guided hanoi tasting food tour. If you love food and want do one thing in Hanoi, do this and do it early in your trip. When you want to discover Hanoi city, It’s pretty hard to visit around Hanoi city yourself, You’ll wonder where you probably want to visit or how you can get there? No worries, take the guided Hanoi city tour, the guide will help you.
Discover Hanoi Old Quarter
In Hanoi Old Quarter, each street has its own name for the product that was made and sold by merchants. Nowadays, a few households still retain these handicrafts. Here you can find Hanoi’s oldest jewellers though most of the handicrafts now disappeared. Today the demand for traditional ironwork is no longer high , replaced by small shops selling all kinds of souvenir like paintings, clothings, fabric or lacquer.
It’s hard to describe the changes hapening if we don’t go deep into the interior of the old house located on a bustling street and start exploring. Every house, there is a small lane to lead a large space inside the house where many generations still live together. All houses are narrow and long, they were built at 18th-19th century. Nowadays, natives sell products at the first floor to the business. On the second floor is where the families live.
When you walk on the streets, you can easily see the signs written by products such as Fish Street, Cotton Street or Leather Street.
After tasting street food tour and wandering on the hustle streets to see daily life of locals and old houses. On the road, you can drop by some Communal Houses set up by the guilds in each area like small temples and one of these temples is the very famous temple – Bach Ma (White horse) temple or visit the ancient house 87 Ma May street which was built at the late of the Twentieth century, is quite intact with typical architecture of ancient houses on Hanoi street.
