La Thanh Quan May 1073 - street food culture in Hanoi Vietnam

7000 contract prices for tea lemons, eat beef 30,000 - that's the price of "food" on the sidewalks of Hanoi Vietnam. But sometimes, and the cool breeze blowing in from the lake, including garbage and sewage smells bad.

Tra My - University students of Industrial Fine Arts - and the group of friends always pick Nguyen Du a stop for coffee appointment ... pavements. My saying: "I would love to have coffee here, so just be watching the romantic lake, could talk freely, not bound as in the luxury cafes. Drinks very cheap price, about tens of thousands per person. "Nguyen Du streets have lots of broad sidewalks, cool shade, the province is famed for foreign customers through specialty "flowers fragrant warm milk." Here, guests only need a few plastic chairs, a couple of glass separating that has had a "desk" coffee. Students and office workers as customers are "guts" of the coffee shops of this kind. Prices for drinks only a few thousand to over ten thousand per glass. Guests can sit "wholesale melon" all day in cool weather.
Ms. Thanh Nga - a coffee shop owner said happily: "There is a day when hundreds of guests, who prefer the wall sit to watch the streets, people prefer to sip coffee next to the lake."From 8pm on Hang Cot, Cat Linh, Quan Thanh ... the shop beef alcohol stove fires started. Specific groups of young people sitting around the stove burning alcohol, the aromatic beef on the pan tingle, with a little tomato, onion and a few pieces of taro, a meal with hot bread.

Hang Buom was known for dishes such as steak, bird shooting, fried rice, flank steak, the price range of 30,000 dong per disc. Anh Thanh Tung - a regular restaurant diners Nam - said: "There are so many delicious alone or invite a meal with his friends. Reasonable price, just a little bit noisy." But the noise to attract young customers Australia: "The restaurant did not have anything like this at all. Eat pavement but noisy but there are also rather interesting, delicious food here."On average, a meal "indulge" for two people includes two discs flank steak, bird shooting, fried rice just over 100,000. At the restaurant must be 2-3 times more expensive.
The price to pay for good food, comfortable seating and cheap sanitation problem. Minh Son - an "allergic" to the sidewalk outside the coffee - criticism: "Drinks on the sidewalk is often mixed very lightly, not to drink ice ice clean and more all just sitting next to sidewalks smell ... smell of sewage. "Many customers come away amazed at the scene Hanoi Vietnam everyone sat calmly eating the chaos of waste paper, foil wrapping paper thrown indiscriminately. The noodle bowl occasionally hair that if shippers claim she was scolded for. Sanitary conditions at roadside stands still inferior.From utensils such as bowls, chopsticks, cups, the seat of the restaurant is often full of fat baked sidewalks, customers want to have to wipe away wipe clean again and again. Ms. Thanh Van - an office worker - said: "Many shops also sell flank steak presented on the basic side table without cloaking device. Flanks they should be fried longer available from the store customers ordering only through is completed. I should not dare to eat scared. "