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I live part time in Tây Hồ (fly back to the States for each semester of school) and I just want to say that I've never gotten sick from the food. I'll eat stree

I live part time in Tây Hồ (fly back to the States for each semester of school) and I just want to say that I've never gotten sick from the food. I'll eat street food on plastic chairs, restaurants with and without AC, and places that would be expensive even for foreigners. Of course I'll also eat what cô cooks sometimes and it's delicious. I'm not denying that you've gotten sick, but I'm just saying that it's different for everybody. Ice cubes come from vendors and I'd be surprised if they're contaminated (that's like the entire point of buying ice instead of making it from the water supply). The air pollution is something that is being worked on, but honestly it's not really noticable (I buy a new n95 mask every other day, problem solved). Regarding open sewer streets, I mean, some gaps between the sidewalk and the roads are dirty but what place has sewage just flowing by? Seriously name the street and I'll visit it today. Also have you considered staying outside the foreigner bubble? (I bet you're probably in Quảng An). Go see the real Hanoi, outside of menus that are in English and don't even have Vietnamese on them.

vzttzv2 7y ago
Any where the To Lich flow. Quan hoa is one example
- JCharante 7y ago
  Wait that canal is sewage? I drive on that road everyday, never noticed it was anything other than a cute waterway.
  - coconut_crab 7y ago
    Long ago it was a river, the French made it that way in the early 20th century.
CapricornNoble 7y ago
>>>The air pollution is something that is being worked on, but honestly it's not really noticable You consider this "not really noticeable"? [1] >>>but what place has sewage just flowing by? Seriously name the street and I'll visit it today Bach Mai, the commercial street east of Bach Khoa (Hanoi University of Science and Technology). Have you not noticed the filth that gets dumped in the streets from all those little restaurants? >>>Also have you considered staying outside the foreigner bubble? (I bet you're probably in Quảng An). Go see the real Hanoi, outside of menus that are in English and don't even have Vietnamese on them. What "foreigner bubble"? I've only known 4 foreigners in Hanoi: 2 European women from Tinder, and 2 other black guys who were exchange students at HUST. Everyone else I know in Hanoi is Vietnamese, and mostly Hanoi natives. Over those six trips I only spent 2 weeks at the serviced apartment in Quang An (I ate the excellent room service there almost exclusively and that was the one trip I didn't get sick). Most of the time I've been in Hang Bai or Bach Khoa because most of my engineers lived there, or out west at Cau Giay where my client's office was located. I had a local date take me to eat snails and bird eggs (similar to balut in the Philippines, but much smaller). Another date took me to her favorite restaurant for Ga Tan, some sort of blackened bird soup. I went on a weekend camping trip to Ham Lon (Pig Jaw Lake/Mountain) with about a dozen Vietnamese, as the only foreigner. We barbecued meat that had been waterlogged the whole day because the styrofoam "icebox" failed early in the trip. I still ate it. When we returned to Hanoi we had some sort of big duck stew together. https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnmvQTBj7cYNMHrq7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnmvQTBj7cYNMHrq7 "Foreigner bubble"....scoffs [1]https://vietnaminsider.vn/why-hanoi-and-hcm-city-ranked-among-top-three-worlds-most-polluted-cities/ https://vietnaminsider.vn/why-hanoi-and-hcm-city-ranked-amon...

vzttzv2 7y ago

Any where the To Lich flow. Quan hoa is one example

JCharante 7y ago
Wait that canal is sewage? I drive on that road everyday, never noticed it was anything other than a cute waterway.
- coconut_crab 7y ago
  Long ago it was a river, the French made it that way in the early 20th century.

CapricornNoble 7y ago

>>>The air pollution is something that is being worked on, but honestly it's not really noticable You consider this "not really noticeable"? [1] >>>but what place has sewage just flowing by? Seriously name the street and I'll visit it today Bach Mai, the commercial street east of Bach Khoa (Hanoi University of Science and Technology). Have you not noticed the filth that gets dumped in the streets from all those little restaurants? >>>Also have you considered staying outside the foreigner bubble? (I bet you're probably in Quảng An). Go see the real Hanoi, outside of menus that are in English and don't even have Vietnamese on them. What "foreigner bubble"? I've only known 4 foreigners in Hanoi: 2 European women from Tinder, and 2 other black guys who were exchange students at HUST. Everyone else I know in Hanoi is Vietnamese, and mostly Hanoi natives. Over those six trips I only spent 2 weeks at the serviced apartment in Quang An (I ate the excellent room service there almost exclusively and that was the one trip I didn't get sick). Most of the time I've been in Hang Bai or Bach Khoa because most of my engineers lived there, or out west at Cau Giay where my client's office was located. I had a local date take me to eat snails and bird eggs (similar to balut in the Philippines, but much smaller). Another date took me to her favorite restaurant for Ga Tan, some sort of blackened bird soup. I went on a weekend camping trip to Ham Lon (Pig Jaw Lake/Mountain) with about a dozen Vietnamese, as the only foreigner. We barbecued meat that had been waterlogged the whole day because the styrofoam "icebox" failed early in the trip. I still ate it. When we returned to Hanoi we had some sort of big duck stew together. https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnmvQTBj7cYNMHrq7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnmvQTBj7cYNMHrq7 "Foreigner bubble"....scoffs [1]https://vietnaminsider.vn/why-hanoi-and-hcm-city-ranked-among-top-three-worlds-most-polluted-cities/ https://vietnaminsider.vn/why-hanoi-and-hcm-city-ranked-amon...