1A few words about Pao Quan
Address:
Facility 1: No. 1, Alley 62, Tran Thai Tong, Cau Giay, Hanoi
Hotline: 0912 539 339 /0243 795 7298.
Facility 2: Street No. 1, Ha Tri intersection, Ha Cau Ward, Ha Dong (end of Ba Trieu street)
Hotline: 098 151 2838 / 02432012397.
Facility 3: 78 Giang Vo, Cat Linh, Dong Da, Hanoi
Hotline: 096 393 2636 / 0982 558 946.
Fanpage: Pao Quan
Website:
Operating hours: 10:00–23:00
Rustic mountain and forest space at Pao Quan
Pao Quan includes 3 branches in Hanoi, located on crowded and bustling streets but still retains its inherent rustic and idyllic features. This place is a familiar destination for many Hanoi diners who love rustic, Northwest dishes. The birth of Pao Quan has added to the harmony of restaurants with a more perfect country cuisine style, with full color.
Space with lots of trees and miniature landscapes of mountains and forests at Pao Quan restaurant
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2Pao Quan restaurant space
Pao Quan branches are designed with extremely spacious space, divided into many different areas. Like a “miniature museum”, Pao recreated the interiors of stilt houses and Rong houses in the Northwest highlands. Each area of ​​Pao Quan brings with it a unique culture. Entering the hall, diners will be extremely impressed by the Northwest-style space, with many rafters, pillars and everywhere hanging strings of chili and dried garlic. As for the 3rd floor area, you will see the image of a skylight area with a gurgling artificial water stream and cool green areas. Next to it is a brocade area filled with colorful dresses and hangings of the Thai and Mong ethnic people. Along with that, gongs, buffalo horns… are hung scattered on the walls and on the pillars of the houses, both rustic and impressive.
The restaurant space is simple but airy and clean
The unique and different flavors of highland dishes always have a strange attraction to diners. Now, you don’t need to travel a long distance to enjoy mountain specialties such as wild vegetables, wild pigs, fish… right in the heart of Hanoi with prices ranging from only 180,000 to 250,000 VND. /People.
Dishes prepared at Pao Quan restaurant such as Man pig, charcoal grilled country chicken, Ha Giang black chicken set, crab hotpot… have captivated countless diners. The special point lies in the typical spices combined with fresh, hygienic ingredients, prepared by the talented hands of chefs at Pao. Thanks to that, we can create attractive dishes with typical Northwest flavors.
The rustic dining table is familiar to Northwest ethnic people
In particular, the chef only starts preparing the food when the customer orders. This ensures that diners always enjoy the hottest dishes. Besides, not only is there delicious food, but Pao Quan’s wine is also something you should not miss. The wines are the result of the restaurant owner’s days traveling around the villages and Mu Cang Chai valley to find and learn how to brew fruit wine for the most “standard” taste.
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3Menu at Pao Quan
Next, let’s explore the menu details at Pao Quan with Vietnamtravelio to see how many delicious dishes there are waiting for you to enjoy.
Pao is a place where you can enjoy rustic countryside flavors, dishes from mountain and forest products, and dishes prepared by ethnic minorities with unique flavors.
Country dishes:
Country dishes at Pao are two braised banana and bean dishes, including braised frog and braised fish. The characteristics of this dish are the long preparation time, the combination of many ingredients, and the soaked sour flavor, giving the dish a rustic yet impressive taste.
Delicious dishes, meticulously prepared
Special fish dishes:
Fish dishes at Pao Quan are very diverse, including salmon, catfish, and carp processed into hot pot, salad, stir-fried dishes, roasted with salt, and grilled. Fish at the restaurant are raised in separate tanks. After diners choose their dishes, the staff weighs the fish to quote a price and then takes it to the kitchen for processing. Therefore, ensuring that the dishes are extremely fresh and delicious. Prices of fish fluctuate according to market prices and will be informed by the staff when you order.
The braised fish is well-cooked and has eye-catching colors
Northwestern forest vegetable dishes:
When it comes to Northwest cuisine, how can we lack wild vegetables? Wild vegetables are very strange vegetables compared to Hanoi people in particular and lowland people in particular. Therefore, when prepared, the dishes will have a very unique flavor, rich in the scent of the mountains and forests, carrying the soul of remote lands. These vegetables include: beef spinach, chayote tops, mustard leaves, sturgeon, and moc moc mustard greens, stir-fried, boiled, squeezed, rolled and combined with other delicious ingredients.
Fried – grilled dishes:
Pao Quan serves fried and grilled dishes with special flavors with firm wild meat and a unique marinade. Diners will enjoy grilled frogs, snail rolls, Moc Chau veal, fried stream fish, grilled country chicken with pepper and grilled pork strips.
Delicious and eye-catching trays of food
Stir-fried and boiled dishes:
Bamboo shoots are a valuable product of the Northwest region. When prepared properly, bamboo shoots can be combined with many different ingredients such as mushrooms, frogs, and beef to create delicious stir-fried dishes. In particular, boiled bamboo shoots dipped in fish sauce is also a very special dish that you should not miss.
The dishes are rustic but prepared by Pao Quan with a special delicious flavor
Pots:
Besides familiar hot pot dishes such as crab hot pot, mushroom hot pot, rib cartilage hot pot, frog hot pot, Pao Quan serves the most special dish which is thang co. This is a dish whose flavor is difficult to describe because of the unique and different way of preparation. You definitely have to try it once to know the uniqueness that the Northwest ethnic groups have brought to life in each dish.
Thang Co is a dish that can only be found in the Northwestern mountains of our country
Salt roasted dishes and salad:
Salt-roasted dishes include country chicken, field frog, and chicken cartilage. There are jellyfish salad and banana flower salad. These familiar dishes are prepared in their own style, so they will bring you a new experience.
Rice dishes:
Coming to Pao, you will enjoy fragrant sticky rice, cooked in meticulous bamboo tubes. There are also sticky rice with birds, vermicelli with crab and beef, you will be addicted to eating them.
The rice pots are cooked from premium quality rice
If traveling in a large group, diners can choose a set to save money and still fully enjoy delicious dishes. Below are the meal sets you can choose from:
Bac Ha pork set with 7 dishes
Da River fish lentil set with 7 dishes
Sapa salmon set
Mushroom hot pot combo
Pao’s goose set
Northwest leaf feast tray
Food set at extremely affordable prices
Besides bottled soft drinks and familiar beers, Pao’s house also has many unique wines. Portions of black sticky rice wine, peach wine, sticky rice wine, ba kich wine, plum wine, and polyscias fruticosa wine are hand-brewed by the restaurant, creating unforgettable flavors. In the cold weather of Hanoi, there’s nothing better than eating salmon hotpot, grilled wild boar, and sipping a few cups of spicy wine.
Hopefully with the information Vietnamtravelio has provided, you will have another place to enjoy delicious Hanoi dishes with unique mountain and forest flavors. Wishing you a wonderful experience at Pao Quan.
