Posts Tagged as ‘Old Quarter’

June 14, 2008

Hot lunch spot

This place, three tables on an Old Quarter street corner in Hanoi, was packed when we went by around lunchtime, and closed tonight when we went back to see if we could get some of the noodles that looked so delicious earlier.  We’ll try again today.

June 14, 2008

Open House

One of the things I’ve been wondering about is why scenes like this
draw me so much, make me grab for my camera.  There’s nothing intrinsically interesting in this transaction, in an herb shop in Hanoi’s old quarter, or especially different from a transaction witnessed in a mall or on a busy shopping street at home [...]