My style of travel usually involves minimal planning with a few points of interests we’d visit, and pretty much winging it rest of the way. After all, it’s always more exciting to have a bit of surprises and a sense of adventure while at a foreign land, isn’t it?
Mien Luon Dong Thinh, fancy some eel?
This method of traveling was precisely how we ended up at Mien Luon Dong Thinh, we were basically walking around Hanoi looking for a lunch spot and thought whatever that they have right at the stall in this restaurant looked peculiar enough to warrant further investigation.
As it turned out, we landed on a rather notable eel restaurant! Yessss!
There are several options to choose from at this place, and luckily the menu on the wall did have English subtitle for all the half a dozen choices – vermicelli blend, fried eel, clear vermicelli soup, fried vermicelli, eel soup, and eel porridge. Each will cost between 25,000 to 60,000 vnd.
crunchy deep fried eel with porridge turned out to be rather good
We ended up trying the fried eel with vermicelli and the eel porridge. The eels were crispy and quite tasty, a very different taste from the boiled eel soup I had in Ho Chi Minh City, much easier to eat and not entirely too different from Japanese shishamo, but with sweetness of eel.
Of course, the vermicelli salad comes with fresh greens, nuts, and a healthy dose of fish sauce, as you would expect. The porridge also would make a very good comfort food on a cold day.
I’d recommend anyone with at least a mild sense of adventure to try this while at Hanoi.
Address:
Nhà Hà ng Miến LÆ°Æ¡n ÄÔNG THỊNH
87 Hà ng Äiếu, Cá»a Äông,
Hoà n Kiếm, Hà Nội, Vietnam
GPS: 21.031978, 105.846789
Tel: +84 24 3826 7943
The fried eel looks like quite thin,like fried fish skin, aren’t they? You photo too dark and small lah, LOL
luckily can click picture to enlarge, which i suggested long ago wink wink #realfacts
Choi Yen: yess it’s something like that. haha.
yay for spontaneous explorations and surprise discoveries! plus, since eel is supposed to be great for stamina, it gives you energy to explore some more 😀
Sean: I didn’t know about eel being good for stamina, good to know I guess!
ah uncle KY only believe in beef torpedo and BKT to give super stamina and strength #truefacts
kekeke: don’t spill my secrets!
I love eel and I love porridge but I’ve never had them together.
suituapui: time to plan a trip!
I can relate to the crunchy fried eel with porridge…like fried salted fish with porridge…delicious! 😉 I love eel by the way, so I would definitely love it with porridge.
eatwhateatwhere: you’d love it!