Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Hoa Vien Chinese Restaurant

My friends and I decided to go to Hoa Vien (华园) Chinese Restaurant for lunch yesterday. Located at Heritage Hotel, Hoa Vien serves decent Northern Chinese food at reasonable prices. The restaurant is run by a Taiwanese lady who speaks fluent Mandarin. This place is very popular amongst the Chinese, Taiwanese and Singaporean population in Hanoi. In fact, most Taiwanese tour groups will bring the visitors here for meals. So I guess the food is quite authentic. :)

We decided to order a few dishes to share amongst the 6 of us. We had a noodle, some fried vegetables, cold cucumber salad and a plate of fried dumplings (锅贴) to share.

Stir fried potato strips with green capsicum

Cold cucumber salad

Stir fried melon with egg

Stir fried beancurd with pork

Pan fried dumplings!

The oily noodles


The fried dumplings were good (though I would have preferred steamed ones) but the vegetables were a bit too oily for my liking. We had wanted a mixed Szechuan noodles with pork but they gave us "mee goreng". The noodles were practically swimming in the oil and I took only a few bites.

The dishes came up to around VND 64,000 per person (total 6 pax) so it was really quite a decent meal. However, the dishes were really too oily for me today. Quite a disappointment.

Nha Hang Hoa Vien (Hoa Vien Restaurant)
625 Duong La Thanh
Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Tel: 04-7724347 (Heritage Hotel)
HP: 0904032244

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