#lyvanphuc

Ly Van Phuc, known locally as Chicken Street, is littered with restaurants all selling the same thing. The menu from place to place might change slightly but they all have the basics: perfectly grilled chicken, grilled honey bread, spicy sauce*.

Your meal with always start with some lightly pickled cucumbers. Eat them! Dip them in the spicy sauce! Dip e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. in the spicy sauce! You should also order grilled potato wedges, sweet potato [khoai lang] if they’ve got them. And dip them in the spicy sauce. Get your chicken. Pull out the massive torture device, or “skewer”, and dip it in the spicy sauce. Lastly, you get your bread. Definitely dip that honey goodness in the spicy sauce.  

If you don’t speak Vietnamese, you might have trouble at many of these restaurants. You can go the old route of pointing to different body parts to get what you want, or you can go to the place with an English menu. Once you get to the start of chicken street, the first restaurant on the left has an English menu (as well as Russian and Korean).

Chicken Street - Ly Van Phuc, Ba Dinh Hours: open daily until 11pm.