Hanoi Damosa Gateway

Dining at a Vietnamese Cuisine Restaurant

From Spanish-themed dining the other day, now we savored Vietnamese. Our lunch was a grip of a taste at Hanoi, the Vietnamese counterpart of Tsuru, located in Damosa Gateway just few walks away from the office. I must say Vietnamese cuisine is better than Japanese's. (that's my personal verdict) The sweetness of food tagged the Vietnamese style of cooking. Though preparation is not ostentatious, the food is superb! We relished on everything served on our table.

For an appetizer, we ordered Goi Xaoi Sang, a green mango salad in sweet sauce. The blend of sweetness and sourness of this appetizer will make you crave for more. You won't have an ill-tasted teaser once you try this. So have a grab of it.

For our main dish, we had Mi Xao Don (crispy noodles with shrimp, pork and vegetables), Uit Kho Gung(braised duck with ginger), Muc Don Thit(squid stuffed with ground pork) and Cha Nuong (ground pork bbq wrapped with lettuce and rice paper). I believe Cha Nuong, ordinarily, is chorizo but the dip makes the taste special. All tasted great but my tongue loved the braised duck most. Its sweet sauce is deeply sipped in the tender meat of the duck. The meal was satisfying.

While we were flipping the menu pages for our dessert, the durian sumanintrigued us so we decided to order some.

The suman was served while I was busy copying and keying the name of the dishes we ordered in my celfone. I thought my friends (Joyce, Norman and Regil) hastily consumed it, liking the taste, but I was wrong. After keying, I saw their suman seemed untouchable. It tasted bitter, they say, so I tried it myself. It was not. Regil told me I don't have a sense of taste but I surely tasted it isn't. The sweetness of the Uit Kho Gung might have affected my taste. I was nibbling it 'til the end of the meal that I did not taste the bitterness of the suman. The crew was very polite to offer them extra coconut milk but they requested for a condensed milk instead.

The dessert is considered the meal climax but for our case, it wasn't. Did the end justify the means? ahmmm for them it might not be, but for me it did, fairly... In the end, we still enjoyed the sumptuous and delicious meal served.

Oops! Did we just eat those?


A buffet is offered in Hanoi at Campus St. every 8th day of the Month @ P430/pax.