Exploring The Best Area in Hanoi, Vietnam
hello everybody and welcome back to Hanoi Vietnam today we're in a part of this city that doesn't really get too frequently covered it's our favorite part of Hanoi it's not the old quarter it's not where all of the tourists are we are at the West Lake and we're in an area called Teo and we have a lot to explore a lot to show you a lot of food to try a lot of things to look at let's go and check out our favorite area of Hanoi just as a quick side note it's so cold today in our last video it was like super sunny over 30° C and today it's like 20 and it's really foggy and cold so uh I thought I was getting around buying warm clothes but I think we will have to look for something warm because I'm freezing to death right now it's very true it is a chilly day one thing that we've noticed so far in Hanoi at least not so much in Vietnam but in Hanoi in particular the temperature changes very very quickly just literally 2 days ago it was over 30 C today it's hovering around 19 to 20 C crazy and here guys we have people uh a lot of people actually actively fishing in the west lake and it seems like they're actually being pretty successful these are pretty big fish here oh that one is still alive what one of our favorite things that we've come to see is uh we come here to the West Lake often times in the morning like we are now and we just go to one of the many many cafes we're going to show you many of the cafes around this area go to many of those cafes just sit and have a nice coffee and watch these guys in action it's amazing I find it so interesting with these guys because a lot of times you can see them throw the tackle but there's nothing on the hook so they they are like fishing without bait how does that even work like I I don't understand it but uh if we had the chance I would really like to ask them some questions but so far we didn't manage to study that much Vietnam needs to actually be asking uh questions but uh yeah I would like to have a conversation or two with with these Fisher guys all right guys have a look at this so this is something that we really enjoy about this area because it is a more localized area a lot of local Vietnamese these people around here you have these amazing markets in a lot of different locations and what you have is set pricing a lot of the old Hanoi a lot of the old quarter you're going to have stand sell enclosed there's no real price you have to ask what the price is and then you have to higgle you know when you come somewhere like this the price is already fantastic so have a look here nice thick jackets and Naomi is shopping away as well she's very cold so she needs some that's a beautiful uh bommer it's a beautiful bommer I'm actually wondering if this is like second hand or if it's new because they have a lot of the same stuff and it looks new it's a lot of uh very good quality clothes as well guys some of the stuff is really nice oh that looks good very nice extra extra large as well it's kind of like it might even be I was scared that it was going to be too small but it's like I have space got face really good it's nice it's warm and uh I was just saying the difference between here and old Hanoi is a lot of the pricing is says set price here I don't actually know how much this one here is like for example you have 100 100,000 for three three pieces for three uh t-shirts whereas we saw 100,000 for one t-shirt in all Tano but the one t-shirt was like uh knockof Patagonia or knockof Under Armour or something like that where these ones are like are more than likely going to be no name actual uh reputable Brands possibly and they could just be for example secondhand or something like that have a look got like a baseball you might actually be able to find some pretty amazing things if you're willing to uh invest the time to come and check out places like like this oh perfect they have like plain black t-shirts big plain black t-shirts canar and they're large I can wear it as PJs it's literally perfect it's perfect yeah I already I can already see myself buying some stuff in here and it also seems like they have this oh every day we've been walking past before and we saw it a few times but we were kind of too scared to go in so now it's the first time that we actually went in with you guys but it seems like they are here kind of every day every day yeah yeah it's literally just right in in front of the the West Lake and if you guys want to know the exact location of everything that we're filming in today's video just drop a comment down below and we will be very happy to let you know exactly where we are where we explored oh my God Naomi found why is everything pink that I'm picking up usually not a pink person yeah Naomi usually doesn't go for pink but it's 100,000 that's 100,000 just look at that guys this heavy as well it's super heavy heavy high quality coat for just 100,000 D that's that's uh under four just under four year I think under4 so roughly around $5 us for that coat yeah got a Donald Duck US Air Force US Air Force t-shirt we definitely don't want that this is nice it's like a lumberjack how nice is this oh oh really nice it's like a lumberjack oh that's a nice dress too my size it's not my size that's kind of more Naomi style they just have small but I'm actually looking for something like traditionally Vietnamese yeah but this small is not going to fit me yeah this place is fantastic and as you can see there's quite a lot of local people shopping here so I think we're going to have a look for some stuff and um maybe purchase some stuff as well you got a Mexico uh baseball style Jersey this is pretty much exactly what we were looking for and we're very glad that we're bringing you guys and showing you guys cuz this area this whole area we're going to dive much much deeper into this area in this video we have a lot to show you we're going to go and check out some of the cafes and we're also going to show you something that absolutely blew our minds about this place as well so stay tuned yeah let's buy some clothes wow I don't know if I would want to wear this around here but that's pretty crazy the only thing that I was able to find that was relatively suitable for my height uh was that pink bomber jacket but now uh I don't own a whole lot of stuff that you could combine with a pink bomber jacket so the search for warm clothing I guess has to continue uh but for now in order to warm up we're trying to find a cafe uh which should be relatively easy because all along this West Lake here in Hanoi you have loads of restaurants and loads of cafes and we're just going to stop by one of the cafes and warm ourselves up I think Luke is relatively cozy with the stuff that he has uh relatively well equipped uh with the hoodie and the shirt and all but I just didn't get the time to buy something yet so I need to do that all along the west lake as well you will stumble across beautiful Chinese style temples and some of them are truly well kept and beautifully preserved as well also one thing I want to mention about this particular area it's quite literally the best area in Hanoi if you are someone who enjoys going out for walks Naomi and I love just going out in the e evenings when it's a little bit on the chilly side going for a nice walk and just going for like maybe an hour or two you have enough space around here that you can just walk and walk and walk this lake is absolutely massive and you will cover many many different areas all along the way and there's quite literally an unlimited amount of things that you can be doing but yeah next up on our list guys we're going to look for a nice cafe to chill and maybe have a strong Vietnamese coffee I think we found a cafe here guys this place looks absolutely gorgeous just have a look I love the outside beautiful yellow color great decorations you've got the greeny going on as well let's check it out okay to film hello for me black coffee hot you yeah yeah uh Cafe n it's okay hot coffee black or you want withk yeah yeah yeah okay Cafe then hi yeah yeah here we go upstair yeah okay thank you come on oh oh look at this wow this Cafe is gorgeous I like the stairs as well oh my God just gets better and better oh and here you have basically like a light a nice big open plan where you can just sit down here and you have a gorgeous view over the West Lake doesn't get much better than this guys so we ordered our coffees two lovely uh ladies that were obviously the owners or they were working here I guess yeah going to just sit chill out and enjoy the views I don't understand how all of these cafes always have like so much out Outside Inside space I guess you could call it even downstairs where the ladies are working all of the windows are open all of the doors are open but it's really cold I don't know how they do that maybe they're used to it or something but uh I would literally like free please thank you come on come on coffee came out already really fast incredibly fast that's uh one thing I want to say guys about Vietnam so far something that really stands out to us the service in every place that we go to whether it's a restaurant a street food vendor a really loud water was a on it I think restaurant street food vendor or even just a simple beautiful Cafe like this the service is always incredible like really really fast very attentive very friendly very Smiley it's amazing it always feels like people are very invested in the service that they're giving whereas like in other in some countries we have seen that people really don't care if you're happy or not when you're leaving or a feel like in Vietnam people are like really paying attention to the service that you're getting and if you're getting everything if you're doing okay and so on so yeah the coffee is really nice by the way very strong strong coffee yeah another thing guys that uh you're going to love about Vietnam if you come and visit Vietnam is the coffee and it is typically very very strong and if you are a coffee lover like us you will appreciate that a lot oh yeah it's like amazing like a Vietnamese espresso basically yeah cheers oh it's going to keep me awake for a long time looks like there's another level another another level oh there's even another level yeah to go up can probably get an even better view over this Lake but W look at this you have a bird's eyee view basically onto the street here as well so you can just relax with your coffee and watch the world pass by with a gorgeous view of a lake maybe even set up your laptop or something like that if you're going to be doing some some work or you're studying or whatever there's even power plugins power plugins yeah just over here you've got power plugins and I think there's a few over there as well this is a fantastic little spot and again one of the many reasons why we thoroughly enjoy this area it's not as well uh like I said it's not overly uh populated by tourists if you're in the old quarter which we have gone to the old quarter now a good few times you're going to see actually mostly Europeans Americans Etc going through the streets and that obviously drives the pricing of everything in the area up quite significantly whereas in this area here you're blessed with very local atmosphere very local pricing and the people are very welcoming as well so yeah this is fantastic I do have to say though my favorite coffee so far that I've tried in Vietnam is the egg coffee uh it's like my go-to now most of the times uh I didn't get it this time cuz I just wanted a quick little hit of caffeine but that egg coffee the Vietnamese egg coffee is incredible it's like perfect mix of sweet and caffeine in one drink my favorite one is the milk coffee with the thick condensed milk oh yeah I really like the thick condensed milk even though it's like a little bit sweet but still really nice it'ss like a treat yeah true wow that coffee really hit the spot guys and if you are more into just sort of chilling closer to the water I should mention that there's plenty of places just like this here where you're going to have have seats and tables directly on the water and it is just the perfect atmosphere the perfect setting hello it's the perfect atmosphere and the perfect setting because you can basically grab something from one of these many Street vendors and restaurants or cafes and bring it over to the seats and tables that they have provided and it's just great it's really just the whole vibe and stuff here is just uh it's perfect if you are someone that likes to relax today is Saturday as well so uh I'm sure as the day progresses it's going to get busier and busier around here because last weekend uh it was pretty crazy around here a lot of the places here directly at the lake look a little bit alternative by the way if you have a look at this place it's called tree Ami garden and uh it sort of looks like a makeshift Cafe that was built like a really big uh sort of treat treeh house and you can like just relax on uh different layers and uh some of them seem to be having some of the layers uh seem to be having like bean bags and blankets and all of that good stuff it looks really cozy and uh this is not the only one that we saw I think we saw another one that looked sort of a little bit more like alternative but really interesting in terms of structure so yeah I do think uh the West Lake area has a lot to offer for people especially if you want to get honked at how beautiful is this guys absolutely gorgeous you get to see this area here by the way this is what we love you get to see a real sort of a contrast so you have very very modern buildings like these ones here and we're also bringing you towards a very modern part of this area as well now and a second and then you also have sort of the older style the more rustic and authentic side of Vietnam as well and of Hanoi and these dragons here are just gorgeous let us know down below if these dragons maybe spit something out or I saw uh there's a couple of places where they have dragon statues and the dragons like spit fire or something that would be really cool but this is very very gorgeous Monument here in the west lake and a great again uh picture opportunity for things like Instagram they've also got vendors dotted all over the West Lake that are selling snacks like ice cream cotton candy hello hello and uh yeah this whole area is just sort of uh the perfect sort of backdrop for uh anything that you need whether it's pictures or whether you like I said want to just sit and relax and enjoy the view yeah we're going to show you guys a more uh modern and builtup version of this part of the of the area know as well it also looks like they might have some sort of a water show or something like this now I don't know if it's maybe the evening time or something we would have to come back at a different time I think to see this by the way since we arrived in Vietnam you sort of see us walk a lot everywhere and that's only due to the fact that we really enjoy exploring areas on foot now obviously you can just take a grab and uh grab is actually really really affordable here usually um I don't know I don't think we have ever paid more than like three or four year basically I think we have to go to the left here this is the left right yeah yeah oh yeah and uh yeah so no matter where you want to go you can always take a grab and it's going to be affordable we are just sort of more the type of people that like to walk on foot even though that presents itself with other challenges such as uh trying to cross the road every time I think okay now we can go there's something coming from the other side hold on maybe now no uh that's sort of our uh main thing that we have been doing since we arrived in Hanoi we have been standing on the side of the road trying to cross it basically I feel like that's the most amount of time that we spent since arriving in Hanoi but it's only because of the mix of scooters and cars if it was just scooters it's fine if it was just cars it's fine um I would think I would go now y maybe yep and we did it ah and then uh all around that main Lake you have these sort of sidewalks that you can walk on it's not perfect like people Park their scooters on the sidewalks and so on so you kind of have to walk slalom around a lot of the things um but uh yeah it is possible to go for a walk around the West Lake which I think it's very nice you hear how quiet it got all of a sudden yeah check out this as well that's so nice all of a sudden you're like no matter where you go into one of the side alleys it gets really quiet immediately and also very local you just have to be careful with the scooters because obviously there's some scooters going of course there's got to be a lady with something loud now now that I said it's quiet in the side at least and and uh yeah you just have to be a little bit careful with the scooters because they sort of fly around the corner and you you not you don't always hear them so yeah other than that I love these little side alleys uh welcome to the sort of modern side of this area that we want to show you we're going to head over here towards the mall which is called LTE Mall Lotto Mall West Lake Hanoi and it is absolutely incredible one of the nicest malls and nicest sort of well-built and clean areas that we've seen in a very long time but yes the traffic is still as chaotic as always guys welcome to probably the most modern and beautiful mall that we've seen in all of Southeast Asia and this is not an understatement just have a look at this place it looks quite literally like a freaking spaceship or something it's entirely pristinely beautiful white and then you have these amazing decorations in the middle there's tons of all of your favorite possible stores there's plenty of affordable places as well it's not just crazy designer places and it is genuinely the cleanest and most well-kept mall that we have come across since we started traveling yeah it seems to be a nice mix sort of of how high-end stores so you would see like boss and Gucci and whatnot all of these types of stores but you also get a lot of the other type of stores so you find Uno you find Muji you find some sort of western stores as well I believe there's a Tara and the mango and so on and this small so in case you're looking for any Western type of clothes or Western size clothes let's say it like this this is probably the place to come in Hanoi yeah 100% but what we're going to do now guys is just show you around uh we couldn't believe it we stumbled in here just the other day and we're hungry as well we're both feeling super super hungry so I think we're going to go and try some of the food here oh they also have a cinema oh they have a cinema as well just up there at the very top you can see there is a cinema as well aquarium there's also an aquarium check check this out it looks like they have a there's a lot of people queuing as well it does seem like they have wow Falcon baby it does seem like they have a very very large aquarium in here which you wouldn't think uh from the outside but yeah maybe that's something that we should be having a look at as well uh maybe next weekend so here we have the food Hall couldn't be more obvious than this and basically all along here you have some incredible restaurants you've got Japanese Thai uh Vietnamese restaurants obviously as well plenty of like Korean places and sort of like Health spots too and I think we're going to do is grab some food and show you guys just what you can get this place is all walkable as to where we started the video off as well and this is what I mean guys by that you can see the real contrast in this area you have Ultra Modern places like where we are right now and then you have really incredible local places too and it is everything you do you have literally anything that you could need we found a place that apparently does uh Fusion Vietnamese it seems to be sort of American uh food mixed with Vietnamese food uh and we're going to try that one out it's called good time and I think as you can see here it says like Fusion VI taste so I'm going to go with the number five uh and Luke is going to go with the classic one I think uh five piece and for drink oh for drink what is aavi L bow of water oh it's water B water it's just water and the cocoim what ises this in uh what is cocoim co COC oh it's like UT water coconut water coconut water yeah yeah okay then I'm going to go with the Coca-Cola zero yeah two two COC zero okay I don't know the options s it's so exciting in the end it was just water and coconut water but yeah we're going to go with the Coca-Cola Zer okay thank you the water sounded more exciting on the menu than it was more ex which one did you get in the end I went for a number one it's called the original good time and I like a good time original good time and I went with the viq sensation let's see what it's like they look amazing and it smells amazing as well so guys I just looked up this place that we're currently waiting for the food from Good Time Burger it is actually a Vietnamese burger place so it's fantastic definitely come and check them out I can already tell you to come and check them out we haven't tried the food yet but they have a very very wide selection of different food and it always feels better when you're buying from a place that is owned and operated by some local people as well and I just can't get over how incredible this mall is so you have some really beautiful cafes like this place here is a is an entire Cafe you also have this whole public seating area so you can basically go anywhere in the food court there's a bakery there's a healthy food place there's a burger place over there and there's plenty more Japanese places as well where you can buy food and then you can basically just sit wherever you want so for example Naomi could go and grab some Japanese food I could grab a burger and we can just come together and sit at this one table so this place is perfect and it is a really fantastic place to be very close to where we're staying on the West Lake this is why we love this area because you have such a diverse mix of old and real Vietnam the real local side of Vietnam and then you have the beautiful modern side such as this one and I am so excited now to dig my teeth into this burger oh look at how freaking good that looks I was actually wondering when Luke ordered he ordered a thing called a tuck tuck that's a tuck tuck what is it I have no idea what it is uh I just read it on the menu and I immediately was like you know what give me a TCT Tac and the guy said sure and I they had like um a different types of serving so they had like 5 10 or 15 I just went with a five piece just to see what it is it came with this dipping sauce here as well the sauce looks amazing the presentation is incredible like the did you see the co SLA oh coal SLA just looks perfect I've never seen a CO SLA that looks so well presented as that we have one chopstick or no that's not a chopstick that's a straw it's the downfall of society paper straws oh paper straws we don't need those I'm all for saving nature but paper straws I don't know so this is the you get a paper straw in a plastic uh lid and usually a full plastic cup as well but anyways we got Coke zero we've got some sauce we've got TCT Tac we've got klaw two burgers now I don't know which Burger is which they're perfectly cut in half say the good time good time this one says the best local Burger okay oh wait no on the side actually on the side it has the numbers you ordered the original I got the original the number one this one should be yours I okay perfect so this one is my one this is the original so you can see here on the side you've got the original the Backyard Barbecue X three pleasure which I'm assuming is the biggest one that they have and then they have a couple of other options let's see the reveal here oh that looks incredible M that looks really good it smells so good smells amazing it said on the menu it has like the double Patty some cheese some um what are they called like deep fried onions these like crispy onions crispy onions and then um I believe there's some mango chutney oh mango chutney it's something about mango which I assume makes it a Vietnamese Fusion smells so good smells amazing I'm just going to unpack this bad boy bad boy bad boy give it an immediate try because I'm so hungry oh it tastes Heavenly oh this is so good oh my God this should try should we do half and half you can do half and half yeah you try this one it's so good oh it's a little spicy a little spicy little spicy it's nice but nice level of spiciness let's give it a try guys smells incredible I've never had a burger that smelled this good cheers let's give it a try yo M that is so good have a look it's kind of like a like a Smash Burger so you can tell that they Smash down the patties so they're nice and compressed the beef is so incredibly juicy it does have like a spicy kick to it I think the the Chutney the mango chutney in there is giving it a little bit of spice and there's crunch to this stuff as well what is that yeah that's what I just um I just found that in my burger too it's actually young mango it's young mango it's a young mango here in the middle I've never tasted something like that before and the crispy fried onions with the mango and the beef together it does not get much much more flavorful it's so good oh my God that's like pop TI pop tier Burger I never thought that young mango goes onto a burger like I'm I'm mentally a little bit confused about how this tastes so well together it's really amazing I can't stop it's so tasty and something that usually makes a very good burger is the bread and the bread here is super buttery very very soft nice and thin incredible try the sauce I actually just started dipping it it's so good it's mustard oh it's mustard very good I love I love mustard let's give it a try oh my God I could literally live off of this this is really really good it's like a really smooth fruity type of mustard it's not like a spicy mustard very good the flavor the depth of the flavor incredible hello we made a we made a friend he's hiding by behind me you see that's try the TCT tax now I have no idea what this is it looks a little bit like a halumi or something something maybe like a deep fried cheese or maybe like it looks like a gigantic chicken nugget I'm going to dip it in the mustard cuz I'm assuming that's what the mustard was for let's give it a try W throw it what is it is it meat or is it tofu it kind of tastes like spam H it almost tastes like a fried spam oh then it's probably like I don't know incredible remember those uh I don't know if you guys had it in Ireland as well but in Germany they have this like toaster schnitzel that kind of tastes like spam too maybe that's what it is like a toaster snitel just deep bread yeah it seems to be basically like a fried slam I do think it's chicken though maybe like a like a chicken baloney or something or it could be a chicken nugget like I tastes kind of like a chicken Nuggie like a chicken snitel basically very nice very crunchy the mustard the mustard is the thing that makes it I think um I love that mustard so it's like like Naomi said really really fruity and delicious look at this oh my god oh you have pickles in this one instead of the mango yeah that looks really nice as soon as soon as I read that it comes with Pickles I immediately wanted to try it so let's give this one a try I'll let you go first with this one thank god oh it smells amazing oh yeah it looks absolutely beautiful oh oh look at this oh my so nice I'm just going to maybe I'm going to try it like this first and then dip it into the mustard after heck yeah it's good this is amazing it does taste like an original burger though like it's taste wise what I expect it off of like an original cheeseburger there's no like Chutney no mango no like you know Vietnam Fusion or whatever you want to call it in this but it's a very very good original burger very tasty just tastes like a you know the same burger that you would maybe get in the US or in Ireland or in Germany very good really good let's give this one a try as well guys see what it's all about I'm a huge pickle time so if you put pickles on a burger they already know I'm going to like it let's give it a try and just pull it out at the wrapper the midsection here is unbelievable and the smell again it just smells the next level it's buttery soft I can't get over how incredible the quality is of the beef the butteriness of the BN as well it's just incredible a kid is the cutest kid ever um but yeah incredible Burger incredible value as well it is obviously on the pricier side of things everything inside of a mall as modern and as beautiful as this mall is always going to be a little bit more pricey but I genuinely feel like this food is worth what you're paying need to take another bite oh my God have fun I find that the system about Asia very interesting that like in Asia it's if you go to a mall it's usually more expensive whereas in Europe for example or like I'm just going to speak about German gery and Ireland saying Europe is a little bit weird um so Germany and Ireland where we are from if you go to a mall it would usually be cheaper and then if you go outside into the individual restaurants or the individual stores it's usually a little bit more expensive so I find that very interesting how that works here that's sort of just because it's in a mall it's more expensive but um yeah I I do see it it's worth the money though very good amazing I'm going to absolutely Devour the rest of this that meal was just out of this world amazing and by the way you have this food Hall place down here but then up there on the next floor it looks like you have loads of like high-end type of uh restaurants just from here I can see a f place and also a Hong Kong Kitchen place but they look a little bit more on the like high-end type of uh scale so we just wanted to try the just a normal sort of burger end of the scale basically which absolutely paid off it was so unbelievably tasty unreal genuinely good value as well like I said more expensive than what you're going to find street food street food in in Hanoi is some of the best that we've had literally since we started traveling honestly so don't miss out on that obviously we're spending 98% of our time here in Hanoi eating on the streets of Hanoi but every now and then it's nice to come somewhere like this chill inside and spend the day shopping and trying out some of this type of food as well especially on a cold day like today yep
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