Bun Bo Nam Bo: Tracking Beef Vermicelli Bowls in Ha Noi

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I rode on a cyclo to Bun Bo Nam Bo, a tiny, picnic table filled restaurant with a wall-mounted menu that lists only four items.

As with many restaurants in Vietnam, what they list and what they have can be very different things.


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The table told more tales. Still, I was happy with two dishes I got: bun bo and gio.

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Bun bo is a bowl of rice vermicelli topped with shredded lettuce, grilled beef, sprouts, toasted peanuts, fried shallots, and marinated slices of green papaya. It came with a side of red chili sauce spiked with orange juice, sugar and garlic. This made for a terrific (and healthy) one dish meal. The bun bo set me back 15000 Dong, less than $1.

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I also got a six pack of gio, rubber-banded banana leaves filled with cigars of glass noodle-fused pork pate, springy and vinegar-laced. Good stuff, and they cost 2000 Dong apiece, about 10 cents.

Bun Bo Nam Bo: Tracking Beef Vermicelli Bowls in Ha Noi

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