Beer and Bar Snacks

Our sons, Simon and Matthew arrived here 2 days ago for a month long visit. Today, after an enjoyable afternoon wandering around Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) we dropped into a Czech beer restaurant that we had noticed just last week. We should have realised that this was something special when the waiter sought clarification that we really did want to order 4 large glasses of beer. Check these out - 1 litre glasses that almost require 2 hands to lift them!

As we sipped our way through the beer, and broused our way through the menu, we noticed some of the special delicacies on offer - fried scorpions, crickets and grasshoppers. At the same time the staff began preparing some scorpions - we just had to try them! A little apprehensive at first, and seeking an assurance that you could safely eat the stinger, we set to and found them to be really very tasty.












So we had to follow these up with crickets which are also very nice. Unfortunately they didn't have any grasshoppers today - we'll have to return for these some other day.

Value for money!
Yellow beer, 1 litre 38,000VND
Fried scorpions 7,000VND each
Fried Crickets 5,000VND each

Restaurant Bohemia
47 Quoc Tu Giam
Hanoi