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Muoi Sau Sweet Soup - 16 Ngo Thi Nham
If anyone wants to eat sweet soup with the true flavor of old Hanoi, this shop is a perfect destination. Established in 1978 in Hanoi, the shop has a more ancient feel compared to newly opened sweet soup shops recently. Although there are only familiar sweet soups like black bean, green bean, grapefruit sweet soup..., it still has a strange attraction. The shop is named 'Muoi Sau' (Sixteen) simply because it is located at 16 Ngo Thi Nham, Hai Ba Trung.

Muoi Sau Ngo Thi Nham sweet soup shop is a famous delicious shop in Hanoi
Sweet soup here is not only delicious but also cheap, at only 10,000 VND/bowl. With such a price, everyone is ready to queue to buy. The only minus point of the shop is that it is very small, and crowded with customers so it often runs out of seats.
BoBoChaCha Sweet Soup - 92 Cua Bac
Located in alley 92 Cua Bac, near Phan Dinh Phung school, this is one of the first Singaporean sweet soup shops in Hanoi. The shop with over a decade of experience is famous for three types of sweet soup: black, white, and fruit. The sweet soup has a just-right, subtle taste; even without adding ice, it is still cool and not too sweet.

Bobochacha Cua Bac Sweet Soup
The area here is quite small, just enough for a yard, however, the shop has currently rented an additional apartment inside so customers do not have to worry too much about space. The shop opens from 14:00 – 18:00, but if you want to enjoy fruit sweet soup, you should come a little earlier. The price is relatively cheap, suitable for students, from 15,000 – 30,000/bowl.
Nam Dong Market Sweet Soup
For the 8x, 9x generations, this sweet soup shop is indispensable in the list of snacks after school. Located on Ho Dac Di street in Nam Dong market, it has a quite cramped space and few parking spots. However, that does not stop many people from coming here to enjoy the famous Thai sweet soup. The assorted Thai sweet soup here is both sweet and cool, full of ingredients like corn, taro, banana, pomegranate... In addition, you can also order fermented pork rolls or clear flour cakes to eat with it. The price of each dish ranges from 15 – 30k.

Nam Dong Market Ho Dac Di sweet soup shop
Xoan Sweet Soup - 29 Hang Giay
If looking for a delicious sweet soup shop in Hanoi located in the old quarter, surely it is impossible not to mention Xoan sweet soup shop right at the beginning of Hang Giay. Although the space here is quite narrow, Xoan sweet soup in Hang Giay is one of the sweet soup shops with famous quality in Hanoi. The shop has many attractive sweet soup dishes such as dracontomelon sweet soup, pomegranate seed clear jelly sweet soup, durian Thai sweet soup, Italian vanilla ice cream sweet soup, Xoan coconut ice cream sweet soup.

Hanoi Xoan Sweet Soup with attractive sweet soup dishes
Bon Mua Sweet Soup - No. 4 Hang Can
This is one of the most famous traditional sweet soup shops in Hanoi. Bon Mua Sweet Soup has been over 40 years old. The number of customers is quite large, most of whom are people living around the old quarter. Perhaps the secret to the crowd of this sweet soup shop lies in the traditional characteristic flavor that has not changed for years. Although the shop has introduced many new dishes like 'khuc bach' sweet soup or jackfruit yogurt, black glutinous rice yogurt..., the sweet soup dishes that make the mark of Bon Mua are still traditional types like lotus seed, green bean, black bean. A cup of sweet soup here depending on the type costs from 15,000 – 25,000 VND.

Famous 4-season sweet soup on Hang Can street
Ba Thin sticky rice sweet soup
Also a familiar destination for Hanoi people, like Bon Mua sweet soup, Ms. Thin's shop specializes in traditional sweet soup dishes, so if you want to eat a cup of green bean or black bean sweet soup, you just need to come to this place to enjoy it. Initially starting as a street vendor shop from the 30s of the last century, to now the shop has a store at the intersection between Bat Dan and Hang Thiec. The most famous dish here is sticky rice sweet soup cooked in the traditional way.

Ba Thin sticky rice sweet soup - a delicious sweet soup shop in Hanoi
1976 Tran Hung Dao assorted sweet soup
Established in 1976 at 72 Tran Hung Dao, this assorted sweet soup shop has always been in the top most famous sweet soup shops in Hanoi. Although the price here is quite expensive and has been increasing steadily over the years, currently it is 40,000 VND/cup, but there are still many people coming here to enjoy the flavor of a nearly 40-year-old sweet soup.

Sweet soup here is not only delicious but the service is also very lovely
You get what you pay for, the assorted sweet soup here is fragrant and delicious, fully flavored with jackfruit, coconut milk, chocolate pearls... unique compared to sweet soup in other shops. In addition, the shop is also very clean and hygienic. Many people commented that the sweet soup here still retains the original flavor since it was first opened.
Banana sweet soup - 35B Nguyen Binh Khiem
The shop is located on a quiet street but still attracts a large number of diners. The shop is only open from 15:30 – 19:00 on weekdays. For those who do not like sweets, this is definitely a right choice because the sweet soup here is only slightly sweet, not sugary. It does not have the rich taste of coconut milk; instead, it has the cool, refreshing taste of kudzu starch and tapioca starch, making it not cloying when eaten. Most famous is banana sweet soup; in addition, there are also corn, taro, cassava sweet soup... Another special thing is that the way the cup of sweet soup is presented is very beautiful, just by looking at it, you want to try it right away.

Nguyen Binh Khiem banana sweet soup - a delicious sweet soup dish in Hanoi
Cho Gao Sweet Soup
If the above sweet soup shops have many long-standing traditions, Cho Gao sweet soup opened as a trend for young people. Initially, it was just a normal lemon tea sweet soup shop, later the shop developed more delicious and unique dishes.
Most famous here is still bitter sweet soup. Bitter sweet soup consists only of black jelly, eaten with coconut milk mixed with condensed milk. Simple as that, but the secret of the attraction lies in the flavor of the black jelly here. The jelly is made from the bitter leaves of ethnic minorities, having a cool taste when first touching the lips then gradually turning to a very interesting numb bitter taste. The sweet soup has a very good effect of avoiding heat and cooling down during summer days. Gently combined with creamy, fragrant coconut milk, fatty condensed milk, it becomes an interesting and delicious sweet soup dish.

Cho Gao Bitter Sweet Soup
Hanoi sweet soup today has become extremely diverse with many types imported from abroad, but traditional, long-standing sweet soup flavors are still a culinary beauty of the land of Hanoi.
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