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HCMC VIETNAMESE CULINARY ART BARS PUBS &RESTAURANTS With a desire to explore new avenues in Vietnamese cooking, Hoa Tuc Restaurant spent a year testing new recipes and assembling Vietnamese ingredients in a fresh new way. At Hoa Tuc, you will find simple Vietnamese dishes sophisticatedly prepared and beautifully presented in a new style. For example, at Hoa Tuc noodles are fried and set separately. When diners enjoy crispy fried noodles, they drizzle the special sauce (prepared by a secret recipe) on the noodles.This way, the noodles are still crispy and not too soft. Diners are offered a multitude of delicious dishes such as fishcake wraps with spicy cucumber fish sauce, and green papaya salad with crispy squid. These dishes are made from authentic Vietnamese ingredients and are featured in an elegant Western style, enchanting thousands of gourmands. HCMC RAN BIEN, THE FLAVOR OF THE SEA IN SAIGON (HOA TUC RESTAURANT *74/7 Hai Ba Trung, Dist. 1, HCMC) hat could be better than enjoying fresh seafood caught from Truong Sa archipelago or the deep sea in Vietnam right in the heart of Saigon? Ran Bien Restaurant offers you a variety of seafood such as amberjack, stone fish, Queen snail and giant as well as scrumptious dishes including steamed Quy Nhon's cl am with lemongrass, dipped Can Gio's octopus in vinegar, sautäed spanner crab with saft, fresh abalone with mustard and grade seaweed. Also, diners can enjoy special seafood from North American such as Alaskan lobster and Canadian Geoduck clam. All these essentials of the sea seem to converge in Ran Bien and create a "small ocean". Housed within the Oriental Suites Hotel, Viet Deli is inspired by traditional Vietnamese arts, making it cozy and comfortable. With only 14 tables and a capacity of 40-60 people, guests will find a calm and safe haven within Viet Deli. With its elegant design, culinary poetry and unique recipes, the gastronomic experience at Viet Deli will definitely help you discover the ancient capital in the finest way. W Cooked by talented chefs, these seafood specialties promise to satisfy all diners with a memorable experience. (RAN BIEN RESTAURANTS *4 - 6A Tran Cao Van, Dist. 1, HCMC *Tel: 08 3829 4777 *25 Ky Dong, Dist. 3, HCMC *Tel: 08 3931 5023 *20 Phan Thuc Duyen Str., Tan Binh Dist., HCMC *Tel: 08 6296 1950 *Website: www.ranbien.vn) HCMC VIET DELI, DISCOVER THE CAPITAL IN THE NEWLY FINEST WAY. (VIETDELI *58 Hang Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi *Website: www. vietdeli.vn) HANOI EAT HANOIAN CUISINE AND ENJOY WATER PUPPETS Serving "bun dau mam tom" (tofu noodles with shrimp paste) as their main dish, ßÀu Homemade does not only offer Hanoian cuisine but also the water puppets of the Northern villages to Saigon. Vietnamese rice fields, buffaloes, rakes and country girls are just some typical images that water puppet performances bring to customers. At ßÀu 20 HANOI TRAVELLIVE Homemade, you will find a world of Hanoian dishes and even some traditional dishes which seemed to be lost. Apart from fried tofu noodles with shrimp paste, the restaurant offers other cuisine such as snail vermicelli with green banana and tofu, false dog-meat vermicelli, Hanoi fried spring roll, banh goi (pillow cake), steamed snail with ginger leaves, and grilled chopped clam worm. (ßÜU HOMEMADE *1 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist. 1, HCMC *Website: www.dauhomemade. com) AMAZED BY THE UNIQUE SALMON MENU Using salmon as its core ingredient, Salmonoid is the only restaurant in Hanoi to serve a various menu of unique salmon dishes including different types of sashimi, fresh salmon tartare and pan-fried salmon with crispy skin and pink insides served with side dishes and sauces of your choice. To make salmon, from Western countries, become more familiar to Vietnamese palettes, the restaurant's chefs have created numerous combinations, namely "fresh spring roll with marinated salmon inside", "green salad with kumquat and Vietnamese signature gboma and sesame-crusted salmon", "duck breast with foiegras, salmon cake and lotus root salad" and "salmon in a clay pot". (SALMONOID RESTAURANT *32C Cao Ba Quat, Ba Dinh, Hanoi)