The romcom “A Tourist's Guide to Love” (2023) films a final dash to the Hanoi Opera House, a colonial gem modelled on the Palais Garnier in Paris.
Hoa Lo Prison, built by the French around 1900 for Vietnamese independence fighters, was later nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton” by American POWs.
Down an alley at 39 Nguyen Huu Huan, Cafe Giang has served ca phe trung since 1946, the whisked egg-yolk coffee invented on the spot.