Over the past more than 12 years, a chicken noodle restaurant on An Duong Street, Tay Ho district, Hanoi, has always attracted diners because of its unique processing method and unmistakable taste. This dish can be found on any street in Hanoi, but finding the right restaurant with a soft and delicious chicken piece infused with the sweetness of traditional Chinese medicine, making the taste “satisfied” is not easy. The most unique feature of this restaurant is that the food is cooked in beer cans. As the dish is cooked using various Chinese medicinal herbs, it is considered nutritious and thought to have a positive impact on the health. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
If you are accustomed to the chicken noodle dish costing from 40,000 – 100,000 VND or more, you will be surprised by the extremely cheap price of the chicken noodle dish of the restaurant on An Duong street. Mr. Trinh Ke Thanh and Ms. Pham Thi Thuy are the owners of the restaurant. Thanh and Thuy have been selling the chicken noodle for more than 12 years. Their restaurant has only a couple of old plastic tables but very popular with gourmets. The small sidewalk shop sells nearly 1,000 servings every day. It has become a familiar restaurant for many diners because of its reasonable price and deliciousness. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Noodle and chicken cooked with Chinese traditional herbal is a delicious and nutritious dish that helps to foster health, especially for the long-term sick and debilitated person. It is a very attractive dish for Hanoi diners, especially when the weather is cool. Just a sidewalk shop with a few old plastic tables, but Thuy sells nearly 1,000 of chicken servings in cans a day. Every day, Thuy has to wake up at 4am to make chicken. The restaurant is open for sale from 6 am to 19:30 pm. On cold days, sometimes only 17-18 pm, Thuy’s restaurant runs out of its dishes. Later guests have to leave with regret. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
To cook a delicious chicken drumstick dish, it takes many stages. Chicken thighs must be firm, not too young or too old, washed, avoiding odors and simmered. The traditional herbal medicine recipe is considered by Thuy as “heirloom” because it is the soul that makes the dish. The wormwood vegetables are grown by herself, enough for use all year round. It is a rather fussy dish, takes time, but the price of chicken at Thuy’s restaurant is very affordable. A serving of chicken noodles, including a stewed chicken thigh, a bit of wormwood, goji berries, adlay grains, lotus seeds and a squeeze of noodles, costs only 25,000 VND. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Chicken drumsticks used for the dish are industrial chicken with food hygiene inspection. After preliminary processing, the chicken is soaked with Chinese herbs and seasoned with spices. Wormwood used for the dish is grown by Thuy’s family in the alluvial ground in the middle of the Red River. After the chicken is stewed to the right degree, Thuy puts the chicken with wormwood in a can. That is why this is called the chicken dish in cans. The cans have been purchased by Thuy from the beer shops for 300 VND each, and brought back, cleaned and dried. Noodles are blanched in chicken broth then put in a bowl along with chicken thighs and hot broth in cans. (Photo: Vietnamplus)
This dish can be found on any street in the capital city of Hanoi, but it is not easy to find out the right restaurant with a soft and delicious chicken piece infused with the sweetness of traditional Chinese medicine, making the taste “satisfied”. The traditional herbal medicine recipe is considered by Thuy as “heirloom” because it is the soul that makes the dish. The wormwood vegetables are grown by herself, enough for use all year round. It is a rather fussy dish, takes time, but the price of chicken at Thuy’s restaurant is very affordable. It has become a familiar restaurant for many diners because of its reasonable price and deliciousness (VietnamPlus)
Having 12 years selling chicken noodles, the restaurant of Thanh and Thuy sells nearly 1,000 servings every day. The most unique feature of this restaurant is that the food is cooked in beer cans. As the dish is cooked using various Chinese medicinal herbs, it is considered nutritious and thought to have a positive impact on the health, especially for the long-term sick, the sick, and the debilitated persons. Many people have become regular customers of the restaurant because of the hospitable attitude of the owners and the deliciousness of the dish. On cold days, sometimes only 17-18 pm, the restaurant runs out of the dish. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
The traditional herbal medicine recipe is considered by Thuy as “heirloom” because it is the soul that makes the dish. Guests can order an extra package of noodles for 5,000 VND or a mugwort flipped duck egg for only 5,000 VND. This price is suitable for many diners from students, students, and workers. Due to the affordable price of the restaurant, it attracts many diners to come to enjoy the dishes. Many people who like to eating chicken spread to each other about the restaurant. It is always full of customers. Thuy and Thanh said they sell thousands of servings of noodle and chicken in cans a day. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
The small sidewalk restaurant is always full of eaters. The most crowded time at the restaurant is from 11 am to 13pm, and from 17:00 pm to 19:00 pm every day. At the weekends, the restaurant is usually more crowded. Thanh said his restaurant can sell up to 1,000 servings of chicken noodle a day. Many people have become regular customers of the restaurant because of the hospitable attitude of the owners and the deliciousness of the dishes. Thuy said she has not increased the price for many years. According Thuy, chickens for cooking the dish are raised industrially, so the price is not high. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Many people said they often choose the restaurant because its price is suitable for many eaters. The customers coming to the restaurant are mainly students and workers. Thanh and Thuy said that they have to get up at 4 am every day to cook the dish. The restaurant is open until midnight. On cool days, sometimes the restaurant is out of stock by the end of the afternoon. Thanh said his restaurant can sell up to 1,000 servings of chicken noodle a day. Many people have become regular customers of the restaurant because of the hospitable attitude of the owners and the deliciousness of the dish. (Photo:VietnamPlus)./.
Hanoi: Noodle with chicken stewed in beer cans attractive to diners
Over the past more than 12 years, a chicken noodle restaurant on An Duong Street, Tay Ho district, Hanoi, has always attracted diners because of its unique processing method and unmistakable taste.
