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Old 09-02-2007, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hanoi - Live Report!
I arrived in Hanoi today. Interesting.

First was Suwannapoom airport. A quick taxi ride saw me arrive way too early, but I wanted to miss the rush-hour traffic. The breakfast was passable for B160 when you consider how overpriced everything else is there. The airport was fine, and I even found the toilets easily enough and had a big dump to celebrate.



The AirAsia Boeing 737-300 awaits its passengers.



The wing.

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My initial thoughts are that they make Thais look like competent drivers, their music is terrible, but they have a lot more style than the Thais (even though most of the houses look half finished here). The streets of Hanoi are mental, but TiV!! Hmmm...that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

My room at Hotel Elegance 2.



Ngoc Son Temple in the middle of the Koan Kiem Lake.



A big bucket of sand to stick incense sticks in.
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I don't know who this bloke is, but he is near the lake, opposite the Post Office.



I stopped to try a Vietnamese coffee. Pretty good actually. Nice and grainy. This cafe was a good spot to eye some local totty.
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This place is the the Tortoise Tower. It's stuck in the middle of the lake, so I guess its not visited very much.



OK, sod all the boring old buildings; now onto the interesting stuff. Beer.

This is a glass of Bia Ha Noi. You could describe it has having a clean, dry taste, very similar to Beer Lao or Asahi. I would describe it as tasteless, gassy piss. Australians would probably like it. (The black bits in the glass are supposed to be there and are a result of the manufacturing process of the glass, not the beer). Luckily, they only charged me 4,000 Dong instead of 11,000; still shite though.



Next up is the better known Anchor (pronounced An-chor, not An-kor). Very similar to Bia Ha Noi unfortunately. Tonight I am going to try and find some of the black beers produced here.

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Great thread and I am glad you focus on the right things i.e. beer.
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You'll find the hidden microphone in the light on the headboard...
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I don't know who this bloke is, but he is near the lake, opposite the Post Office.
I think his name was 'Ly Thaito' and I believe he lived from 974 - 1028.
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I wonder if that Anchor beer is some sort of license arrangement with the Malaysian Anchor Brewery.
If you can buy Beer Lao over there, all is not lost anyway.
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I wonder if that Anchor beer is some sort of license arrangement with the Malaysian Anchor Brewery.
Artificial beer produced by the Asia-Pacific Brewery.
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MtD, I'm travelling to Vietnam tomorrow, but flying into Saigon late at night, make sure you try some of the local vodka "Nep Moi" is the one they like in the south, in Hanoi you can buy it but they prefer "Ruay Noi" (the "Ruay" is pronounced the same as rich in Thai, and the "Noi" pronounced the same as your old flame on Cowboy). A big bottle should be about 22,000 dong.


^ this is the stuff on the left
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MtD, I'm travelling to Vietnam tomorrow, but flying into Saigon late at night, make sure you try some of the local vodka "Nep Moi" is the one they like in the south, in Hanoi you can buy it but they prefer "Ruay Noi" (the "Ruay" is pronounced the same as rich in Thai, and the "Noi" pronounced the same as your old flame on Cowboy). A big bottle should be about 22,000 dong.


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I will give it a try. I will also find somewhere that sells the black beer for review. I'll see how cheap the wine is as well. I was bloody expensive at the restaurant I ate in tonight, but I did go to one of the best in Hanoi; Bobby Chinn's. Very, very good.
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We wanna see piccies of backpackers slum dwellings, not this high end stuff, you know the sort of thing, squat toilets and all that stuff, cold water, places that you get dengue fever from, so move out now and go down class.
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Sorry, DD. My budget is a bit higher than a Jomtien builder's.

On the way to dinner, I took another piccy of the Tortoise Tower. I think I need to work on my night snaps.



Bobby Chinn's is a very well known restaurant located at the southern end of Hoan Kiem Lake. It isn't the sort of place grotty backpackers or builders go to. Most of the clientèle seemed to be very well to do, or the daughters of very well to do people.



I ordered a Bia Halida, and needless to say, it was crap too. For dinner, I ordered the Japanese aubergine salad, followed by the blackened barramundi on braised banana blossoms, brightened with turmeric-balsamic vinaigrette. Bloody lovely and the total bill was a smidgen under $30US.



After that I went to a bar full of very fit women with big chests, but I didnae bother.
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Very nice too. $30 - was that just for one, in which case a bit pricey. Not bad for two though. Did you have wine with the meal?
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