Travelindochine
backpacker
Posts: 15

#1 Posted: 14/7/2008 - 13:54


“Cha ca” is a favourite dish of Hanoian. Located in Cha Ca street, Cha ca La Vong (”cha ca” means grilled fish) is the famous restaurant to many Hanoian as well as visitors from all over the world.

The food is supposed to have been created by the Doan family. According to Mrs. Ngo Thi Tinh (a descendant of the 4th generation of the family), the family started the business of selling “cha ca” to earn money to support the family members and to have a meeting place for the Vietnamese people who wanted to fight against French colonialism.

The family food became a speciality of Hanoian people. There’s a statue of La Vong (an ancient Chinese poet and revolutionist) fishing by a stream on display in the restaurant. This is the symbol of a talented and patient man who know to wait for the right moment to come. The patrons called the restaurant “Cha ca La Vong”.

Connoiseurs usually wait until it become cool to go to enjoy the taste of Cha ca. The grilled fish must be made from a kind of fresh water fish called hemibagrus because it has very few bones and the flesh is very tasty. If hemibagrus is not available, we could make do with mudfish or snake-head fish. Some connoiseurs may request for a special kind of fish called Anh Vu, which is available only in Viet Tri city at the turning point of the Bach Hac river.

Thin slices of Anh Vu fish are rolled with a kind of herb called “soi” then grilled to give an excellent flavour. To make grilled fish, thin slices of fish have to be mixed with ginger, saffron, fermented cold rice, pepper and fish sauce; then placed on bamboo skewers and grilled on a burning charcoal stove right on the dinning tables.

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CatBa2
tourist
Posts: 53

#2 Posted: 14/7/2008 - 18:48


TravelIndochine is a travel agent trolling for business who is too cheap to pay for advertising.

Isn't this a duplicate post, Stuart, and possibly a copyright violation?

KPTham1
noodle lady
Posts: 43

#3 Posted: 16/10/2008 - 01:39


At 95000 dongs per pax , it is in my opinion over-rated and overpriced, especially when the portions for a 3 pax group or a 5 pax group looks pretty much the same. Our group of 5 had to ask for a second helping top-up and this was given reluctantly.( why do we need to ask in the very first place ?).

You can find better and healthier food elsewhere in Hanoi.

maykoay188
newbie
Posts: 2

#4 Posted: 16/10/2008 - 09:02


Hello there,
I fully agree with you.It was not worth the price.
The fish pieces were so small and tiny and the qauntity was worth about RM 5.00 whereas we have to pay around 75000 dong (9US)

KPTham1
noodle lady
Posts: 43

#5 Posted: 17/10/2008 - 01:08


Hie maykoay188

Thank you .
By the way, I hope you have been paying in dongs instead of paying in US$ because the rate is 1US$ to 16300 dongs! The rate you used worked out to 8300 dongs to the $!

In loas, it is 8500 kips to the US$.