Northern Vietnam region · the offbeat side of Hanoi.
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The family-run Hanoi noodle shop where Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain shared a $6 dinner in 2016 — the very table now enshrined under glass upstairs.
Four floors in Hanoi devoted to the women who carried Vietnam — street vendors, war couriers, mothers, and matriarchs — told through 25,000 artifacts and first-person stories.
Down a narrow Old Quarter alley hides the café where egg coffee was invented in 1946 — a Metropole bartender's answer to a milk shortage, still whisked by his family today.
