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Ms. Eliza BernierUnited States

I played in Hanoi for three days and I want to share my personal experience (Guide Edition)

1️⃣ I had Pho every day! Pho is the eternal god! Street stalls, takeaways, and popular shops are generally reliable, and I personally love beef pho the most! (Image 6) 2️⃣ I drank coffee every day! Legend coffee, cong coffee, egg coffee, laika coffee, and maison coffee are all pretty good. (Cong is very good, I have another note about it) *Let me talk about maison coffee in particular, it's a chocolate brand founded by French people in Vietnam, their chocolate coffee and egg chocolate coffee as well as chocolate ice cream are amazing! (Image 7) 3️⃣ The train station coffee street is okay for taking photos, but the train has a fixed schedule, so it's better to arrive early and find a cafe on the first or second floor for a better shooting angle. (I just timed my visit there, the road was temporarily closed during the train's passage, and I could only wait for the train to pass before entering to take photos ) (Images 2-3) 4️⃣ St. Joseph's Cathedral looks great both during the day and at night (Images 4-5), and can serve as the starting and ending point for a Hanoi city walk, plus there are various cafes mentioned in point 2 around it for resting. 5️⃣ The popular coffee building is good for taking photos (Image 10), but there's no need to go inside. There's a nearby open-top sightseeing bus stop, 150,000 Vietnamese dong for a round trip without repeating the same route seems okay. 6️⃣ For souvenirs, I went to Lotte, which should be the busiest shopping district in Hanoi, with a variety of Vietnamese and Korean specialties in the department store on the basement floor. (Buying souvenirs from two countries at once? ) (Image 11) 7️⃣ For the hotel, I originally chose one near Hoan Kiem Lake, but after much hesitation, I chose a place 20 minutes away by car. After all, Hoan Kiem Lake is the most popular local attraction, and in my opinion, the things in tourist areas tend to have a worse cost-performance ratio and facilities. 8️⃣ The last point, the network signal is so bad... Welcome to like, follow, and share, Shen Shen will continue to update more travel guides and daily news, information.
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