"Phở" - rice noodle soup with beef or chicken, is considered Vietnam’s national dish and is eaten everywhere on the street. Chefs protect their Pho recipe like a treasure, but in Hidden Hanoi's cooking class, we will secretly show you all our Hidden ingredients as well as simplify the recipe and method so that you can recreate it at home for your family and friends.

Coffee was introduced to Vietnam in the early 1900 by the French. Then slowly it becomes a very popular drink here. Coffee with egg sounds a little bit weird but actually, it has amazing flavor. It is not a drink but becomes a cool dessert as well. The legend of the Egg coffee started in 1946 after the Second World War finished with the problem of getting imported fresh milk in Vietnam. So a bartender who made coffee at that time invented a new way of drinking coffee with what we have a lot here: Eggs and sugar. So you now then could be able to witness the beauty of “Vietnamese Latte” with its special texture and flavor.

Would you like to experience what it likes in the family kitchen in Hanoi? Would you wonder how we cook? Why and when and where? Would you like to dine authentic meal with us just like a friend. Let join us in host's house for outstanding and unique activity while you are here.

 For a thousand years being the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi has gain for itself the finest cuisines in the whole country. Wherever the dishes come from, we twisted and modified and made it became our own version. Hanoian also has a different way of dining. Carefully, gently, elegantly but simple and well balanced are what we focus on not only in our traditional cuisines but also in our daily family meal. Each menu has 4 dishes. You could choose 1 dish from each option below for full menu. We have both Vegetarian and Vegan option as well:

• Fresh Bun Noodle and Mixed Herb Salad
• Nước mắm (fish sauce) Soup with Green Papaya and Carrot
• Marinated and BBQ’d Pork
• Fried Vietnamese Spring Rolls

This menu is a speciality on Hanoi’s streets. Typicaly served at lunch, the soup is served cold in Summer and warm in Winter.

• Cabbage Rolls filled with Pork and Mushrooms
• Claypot Stewed Chicken with Lotus Seeds and Mushrooms
• Banana Flower Salad
• Green Wasabi Leaves Soup

This meal is most often eaten when the weather is cooler. The ingredients are readily available in most countries and the recipes can be easily adapted to suit individual tastes.

• Fresh rice paper Spring Rolls with Prawns
• Prawns with Sweet and Sour Sauce
• Green Papaya Salad
• Sour Fish Soup

 This lightly balanced summer meal showcases several typical Vietnamese cooking techniques such as rolling, stir-frying and dipping!

 Fresh Organic in Season Vegetables / Vietnamese Mixed Vegetable Curry / Fried Tofu / Charcoaled Eggplant.  Not even fish sauce is used in these traditional dishes that are usually prepared for monks in the Pagodas around Hanoi. Vegetarian or Vegan menu is what we are proud of to show you

• Morning glory salad
• Claypot Stewed Eggplant with Pork
• Wasabi leave with fresh water crabs soup
• Tofu with Fresh Tomato Sauce

This is the sort of meal Vietnamese country folk might eat at harvest time. They will harvest water spinach and collect small clams from the local ponds to make a simple, yet delicious soup eaten with salted small eggplants or fried and served with rice crackers.

Take phones, iPads, computers, and TVs away from our children. Give them a chance to learn how to cook, work in a team, manage to time, and enjoy the food with us. Weekly classes for kids at 9:30 am on Saturday for English speaking class and 14:00 for Vietnamese speaking class. Please watch out for our menu update weekly on our fanpage Hidden Hanoi.

Spring rolls are something quite speacial in Vietnam in general and in Hanoi in particular. The variety of spring roll are many indeed.And we might need sometime to be able to list all of them. So we are going to only introduce 4 best kinds of rolls with the hope that you are going to have a quite good picture of our unique cuisine.

2 out standing dishes that even Vietnamese people when they talk about popular dishes in Hanoi, they would have mentioned. That is Chả cá Lã vọng and Bánh tôm Hồ Tây. 1 dish have the beautiful of spicy and herbs involve. 1 dish have the touch of western style deep fried but still have influent of Vietnamese flavors. Something special about them that you only could explain wen you  experience. 

Tết in Vietnam expecially in the North is very formal. There are things we must do. And there are food we must have. Every family would have almost the same menu with the same ingredients. We are celebrate Tet for about nearly a week. And somehow even great food could be come less interesting if you continue having them for a week or so. This menu, traditionaly come up with the creative idea to change the familier daily ingredients that you have already in your kitchen to be something so refeshing and exciting. The way they made those dishes were lift up the value of colors and taste to another level which you could not imagine. 

• Bún thang - noodle with chicken broth, egg, Vietnamese ham, wasabi root, shitake mushroom
• Món cuốn Hanoi - Hanoi Summer rolls with shrimps, pork and viarity tropical herbs
• Gỏi gà - Chicken salad with onion and Vietnamese mint
• Dipping sauce in Hanoi style