Street food in Ma May, located in Hanoi Old Quarter.

 

Ma May street located in the center of Old Quarter is a famous and bustling place to both foreigners and the local teenagers who wander at night for catching up or tasting street food with a chain of speciality food shops. Especially, only resonable price, the street food here is variety and attracts everyone who go pass this street through its signature smelling especially at night. Here, the street is always busy or chaotics. Food shops in Ma May street are specialised in grilled street food. When the winter comes, the street is always full of foodies on sidewalk to taste hot grilled street food because of cold weather which makes the food is even better. In addition, these food are listed in menu in the Hanoi street food walking tour

When you taste the street food, the host serves already everything on the table, you’ll taste food by a very “local” way, just plastic table and some small plastic stools get along the stove placed on the table. A unique experience for foreigners. And here, everyone uses a charcoal stove because
the local people still believe that only using charcoal stove and grilling manually would make the best quality food. Small food shops have been here and reputed for a long time.