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Kit is a Hanoi-based journalist and film photography enthusiast who writes about culture, social issues, travel, and the environment.
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Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Tucked away amongst a row of cafes on Van Phuc Street is a curious Japanese restaurant – beneath the bright red KAMON sign above its entrance and the usual menus offering sashimi and sushi is an altogether more suspect list of items for sale: Iranian Persian Carpets?
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
With most of my life having been spent living in Saigon, the concept of bánh đa was first introduced to me by a mass-produced instant crab noodle soup package.
Hanoi
On July 25, the Hanoi People’s Committee urged contractors to address construction problems and complete the overpass, which is already one month behind schedule.
Literature
It’s not often that a philosopher of Alain de Botton’s status visits Vietnam, so it was no surprise that all 50 seats on the upper floor of Toong Coworking Space were occupied, with most tickets snapped up long before the event .
Postcards
The third entry in the Hanoi Postcards series, our love notes to the city we call home, depicts a unique neighborhood.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
That the most delicious food in Vietnam is usually found on top of shabby plastic tables is an incontrovertible truth. So much so that modernity has done something strange: we feel skeptical when seeing street food served in clean, air-conditioned restaurants. It is a liberating experience, on the other hand, to visit a place like Banh Beo Cho Do, where past and future — instead of clashing — intertwine and complement each other.
Hanoi
Hanoi's air pollution has turned itself around, with Hanoi recording a high number of "good" days in the first week of July.
Culture
When Link Do was a child in Hanoi, she learned English from an American woman with a tattoo on her hand. Link, who loved to draw, thought the tattoo was beautiful, and began to imagine a future as an artist who worked with ink and skin.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Whether a grey-eyed morning or a long-tailed dusk, it makes little difference in Café Minh. The windows, opaque from a history of cigarettes and road dust, barely let in any light. The groan of motorbikes outside, rising and falling as rush hour ebbs and flows, is the main indicator of time.
![[Photos] Exploring Dala Township on the River Yangon's South Shore](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/06/Dala/10b.jpg)
Travel
Only a 10-minute ferry ride from central Yangon, Dala is a blur of motorbike horns, trishaw drivers peddling scams and old ships rusting on the riverbank.
Postcards
Hanoi Postcards is our series of love notes to the city we call home. This second offering is of a flower seller cycling along with her florets. With sunlight shining through an audience of trees, her stage must be Phan Dinh Phung Street.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
From Pasteur Street to Standing Bar, the capital hides a plethora of hop spots, but its newest entrant might be the most unique.
Music & Arts
Having released Rampant Happiness , their debut EP, only a few weeks ago, and with a string of live shows lined up to debut upcoming music videos, Sirens of Ha Long are on the rise.
Postcards
This week, Saigoneer is proud to announce a new series: beautifully crafted illustrations, in the form of postcards, celebrating everything we love about this city. Every couple of weeks, we’ll reveal a new vignette of a uniquely Hanoian experience, complete with affectionate descriptions.
Environment
With storm season a yearly occurrence in Vietnam, it's always a good time to sit down with the fount of climate knowledge that is Hanoi’s Weatherdude to learn about the atmospheric movements of our planet.
Travel
“It is a rocket center. The Soviets, they stayed there to control the rockets…” These are not exactly the kind of words you expect to hear from a homestay owner in northern Vietnam, especially not when they are describing the space where you’ll be sleeping that night.
Culture
Birdsong clubs, a tradition originating from China, are one of Hanoi’s hidden gems. If you’re willing to really look for them, it’s possible to find huge collections of birds kept in finely decorated wooden cages being watched by rows of men who care for them.
![[Video] The Drag Queens Firing Up Hanoi's Nightlife](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/04/5SGRb.jpg)
Culture
For over two months, a tantalizing new event has been firing up Hanoi's nightlife: drag queens in burlesque outfits death dropping on stage.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Despite having changed locations twice in the last three years, Spicy Pho Bay remains one of Tay Ho’s most popular street food spots.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Modern-day Hanoi is a labyrinth of new developments, with some areas already feeling the effects of gentrification. That certainly wasn't the case back in 1936, when Café Duy Tri first opened its doors.
Travel
On a new list of the world's top 15 destinations created by TripAdvisor, Hanoi ranks number 12.
Society
I almost missed the entrance to the bakery as its sign was partly obscured by a leafy tree. I skidded to a stop and hurried in to my appointment. Behind the counter, a manager was speaking in hushed, professional tones to two members of staff. His formal demeanor imbued a certain polish not normally associated with bakeries in Vietnam, one of several things that surprised me that day.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
In the midst of a Hanoian winter, all you want is warmth. The houses aren't built for the cold, and on a bike at night, the chill seeps right into you. At lunch or after work, there's nothing better than a steaming hot bowl of phở to restore you.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Bars in Hanoi don’t come much smaller than Dot. Its width is no more than the span of my arms, but what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in value and substance. You’d barely notice the place at 66 Tran Vu in the day; a dark, shuttered façade lies behind seats from a nearby café. At night, however, it’s a different story.
