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Quan An Ngon Restaurant, Hanoi, Vietnam

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Quán Ăn Ngon is a popular restaurant in Hanoi (18, Phan Boi Chau Street), Vietnam, which offers a variety of traditional Vietnamese dishes and street food.

The restaurant was quite cozy, and the food decent. Not my favourite Hanoi restaurant, but if you can only have one meal in the city… this is probably the place you want to be because of the great varieties.

Fried spring roll at Quan An Ngon restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam Traditional spring roll at Quan An Ngon restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam
Roast pork at Quan An Ngon restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam Rice wrapper and lemon grass at Quan An Ngon restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam
Spring rolls, roast pork, rice wrappers and herbs

Stir-fried rice cakes in Malaysia

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Most Asian Pacific countries have some sort of rice cake dishes of their own; could be sweet, salty, spicy, and come in variety of shapes.

Stir-fried rice cakes from Ipoh, Malaysia

There are a few versions of rice cakes in Malaysia; the one above is commonly referred as stir-fried-cake, originated from China but has pretty much evolved into a Malaysian Chinese delicacy. Basically it’s a dish with rice-cake cubes stirred fried in soy sauce, with bean sprouts, Chinese chives, and often chillies and eggs.

Local delicacies in Jiufen, Taiwan

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Some local foods in Jiufen, a small town in Taiwan which I visited in late April 2008…

Traditional Chinese candy Bingtang Hulu in Jiufen, Taiwan
Caramel haw (冰糖葫芦; bingtang hulu) is a traditional Chinese candy made by dipping haw-on-a-stick in hot caramel… it can be done with other fruits as well, obviously

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Stinky tofu, Mongkok, Hong Kong

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Stinky tofu (臭豆腐) is a fermented bean curd that stinks. It’s an iconic Hong Kong street food, but it’s not that easy to find it these days. Luckily we still managed to spot (or smell) some eateries selling it in Mongkok…

Stinky tofu in Mongkok, Hong Kong

This was my first try on stinky tofu. Most people who tried it before would suggest that it smells bad but tastes ok (or good), which was quite true. The deep-fried tofu was a bit too salty, but the texture was nice… crunchy on the outside and spongy in the inside. I kinda liked it actually.

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