Friday

Free Dinner at Hoa Sua

We can highly recommend the ‘Hoa Sua Training Restaurant’ (28A Ha Hoi, Hanoi). They provide hands-on training for disadvantaged teenagers so that they can find jobs in the food & beverage trade.

The restaurant itself is very posh - a lovely colonial style building with sweeping marble staircase and musicians playing violin, cello & flute on the landing! The waiters & waitresses bumbled about and were very shy at first, but once they saw that we were really enjoying the Vietnamese food, they relaxed and smiled a lot.

Had an amazing meal and due to our missed airport transfer - only had to pay for the beer!