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Your are looking to eat a Peking Duck, go to the silk road restaurant. It is located in the Daewoo hotel, quite formal and boring but they have a good Peking Duck and the dim sums are not too bad. The price used to be 26 USD for the whole duck and you can eat for 3 persons however normally eachtime we order one for 2 persons. Now the price is 40 usd, inflation hurts, but it is still worth to get.
The service is good, see the picture they prepare the duck on a tray and waitresses are very friendly.
Enjoy
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posted about 2 months ago by PhilippeP
about the venue: The Green Fence on the north side of Hai Ba Trung near the Opera House
I have to get back what I have said previously as things can change so fast sometime in Hanoi, now we enjoy a nice little park as originally planed by the people committee and no shopping mall anymore. Great news.
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When I was talking about consistancy...... Green mango you had a good product and you are ruining it by lack of control and management.
Do not give up otherwise your investment will go down to the tube and after it is far more difficult to get back. Increasing the price should allow you to hire better staff and better manage the restaurant, not just enjoy the money and think that you already made it.
last week was a disaster from the beginning to the end and the food was not even good. Actually I agree with Hanoimonkey as it happened exactly the same thing to me with the seafood risotto and wine off, despite the 50% price increase. We did not go dinner together and it was not 2 days ago but at the beginning of last week.
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I have been using this house rental company for more than 10 years and Mr Long has been always provided me with good houses and negotiated good prices for me.
Give him a try and you will see he knows most of the house owners in Tay Ho area but can cover other area in the city of Hanoi.
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I was not really willing to rate this restaurant since I know the chef who used to be the chef of the metropole and was good at what he did with the food there. However I cannot still figure out why he has not reproduced the same quality in his restaurant.
the decoration is awfull according to the deco who did it and will not brag about it. The service was bad, and the food was not at the level of what the chef is capable to do. I went 3 times to make sure and the last time I took the 9 courses menu at 58 USD to be able to taste everything he could offered.
What a disappointment! The only thing I remember is the scalop stuffed with foie gras which was interesting and the receipe was probably suggested by Olivier Rollinger from the "maison de Bricout" at Cancale, 3 stars chef who came to hanoi some years ago.
I agree that the lunch set is a good price but I went thereas well and it still was disappointing. The last I came I ate on the last floor which in my opinion is the best decorated room but outside and you need to like to eat on armchairs and it was already 6 month ago, I hope he improves his cuisine because he really can do better. So I had to react on the 5 stars.
I will try it again soon and see if it has improved.
3 stars for the hope and soon 5 stars I wish because I was really expecting better when it opened.
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Questions (1)
Can we do something about the utter rubbish section. It seems that there are some people who are playing with this click. I agree with all the others click but the one who will click on the utter rubbish must be identified and explain.
Answers (7)
Posted Wednesday August 6th, 2008.
No the risk is limited and anyway if you get some counterfeit money you can always use it. I cannot make a different between fake and not and I am sure I got some but never had any problem from someone telling me that I carried counterfeit dollars, actually the rate yesterday was 16,780 so the most reputable place is close to the hang da market I do not have th street name with me but it is a small street in angle where they sells as well motorbikes seats you will find the shop there.
In response to the question: I need a couple thousand US dollars for a trip I am making outside of Vietnam in a less then a week. The gold shop on the corner of Hoan Kiem will se...
Posted Wednesday August 6th, 2008.
If she makes you happy and you can afford it, pay her. it is difficult to find someone trusty, good cook, good cleaning and if you feel bad about paying her this amount, may be ask her for some additional work or hours if it is possible, it might work and can become a win/win situation
In response to the question: THis may be a question more for older hanoians than younger hanoians... Or at least ones who have been here longer. When I first arrived i hired a...
Posted Wednesday August 6th, 2008.
VietSam do not worry about Jimbo, it seems that he has been spending time in the site to have this type of comments and he might be alone and needs some love. (go find a girlfriend)
Because I do not know what to think about a guy who makes all these nasty comments and cannot even put his name and picture on his profile. anonymous critic, remind you anything.......
Saying that you need some people like that to entertain, so we need him to live and amuse us, credibility, this is another question but it does not matter as soon as we know and be aware.
In response to the question: THis may be a question more for older hanoians than younger hanoians... Or at least ones who have been here longer. When I first arrived i hired a...
Posted Tuesday August 12th, 2008.
The purpose of identifying the utter rubbish is obvious to me. First to avoid any abuse or people just being negative as you can see in all your comments, I would love to hear what the people who clicks utter rubbish on your comments, have to say. The other answers do not need any explaination, it speak by itself however someone who disagree, it is interesting and may be positive to know what are their explainations. I am interested in hearing pro and con however it will not change the experience I had. If there are a lot of negative reviews I might go back to the place to have another experience however I will not consider whatever the number of utter rubbish clicks. Now I understand that it might take a lot of bytes and might slow down the website however I do not agree with the flame wars, we seem to be adult and we try with this website to find the best of hanoi and take benefit of the others experience. For me if your intention is to click on the utter rubbish it means to me that you already went to the place and probably gave your opinion before or if not this is the time to give it on the site even in my opinion you do not have the spelling or the well written academic english, I think it is a very discriminatory for non english speaking as a mother tongue. Anonymous Utter rubbish for me is the same thing like the people who write, make comments, criticize on this website under a fake name without putting a picture or give their real name.
In response to the question: Can we do something about the utter rubbish section. It seems that there are some people who are playing with this click. I agree with all the others ...
Posted Sunday August 17th, 2008.
How do you want to pay? most of the transaction are made by cash with these landlords who do not really declare anything to avoid paying taxes and of course they do not want to have any trace for bank transfers. Anyway checks or credit cards are not working for these small deals. You can sign a contract and make sur you can get out with 1 month notice before 12 months. Anyway if your contract is not notorized which is probably the case of 95% of the housing contracts it has no value. Welcome in Vietnam and try not to pay deposit because you will have problems to get it back or what is usually done is you pay 3 months in advance and after you pay every month but no deposit.
In response to the question: We arrive in Hanoi at the end of the month where we will be looking for an apartment/house prefably around the Tay Ho area. My company are not paying ...
Posted Monday August 25th, 2008.
If you really talk about shoes wait to go abroad.
In response to the question: shoes for men-where are the good shoe stores(ones that have sizes to fit western feet!)or can I get shoes made?...
Posted Saturday November 15th, 2008.
It seems that some funny guys like to play with the click for nothing or may be sometime I am sure because your comment was not gramatically correct or other considerations that has nothing to do with the purpose of this site, now I just ignore it and everyone should do the same. all 4 other clicks do not deserve any comments except the UR. Go to some other site in the States such as Yelp which is quite well known and you will not find it. However saying that it seems that the creators of this site are still insisting in keeping the click and their explainations did still not convinced me, but I respect that, after all, they are the one who created this site we all enjoy.
In response to the question: Can we do something about the utter rubbish section. It seems that there are some people who are playing with this click. I agree with all the others ...
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Philippe Perruchot
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In Hanoi SinceTuesday October 1st, 1996
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