Visit Benten When You Are Tired Of Vietnamese Food In Hanoi

The Japanese restaurant district

Benten is found on Kim Ma Road in front of Thu Le Park and Thu Le Lake. This area has many Japanese restaurants and those from Hanoi recognize it as a Japanese restaurant district. Since Kim Ma Road is a busy road with hardly no pedestrians on the street, this is a location you want to access via a taxi. If you are looking for some authentic and reasonably priced Japanese food, this is where you want to go. Maybe you can visit the Thu Le Park and then visit the lake and the zoo before or after your lunch break at Benten.

A wide range of Japanese dishes to choose from

At Benten, you have a wide range of Japanese food to choose from. With more people becoming health conscious, Japanese food has attracted global interest. For a lot of international people, the image of Japanese food is sushi and maybe ramen, but at Benten, you can eat dishes that are more realistic for Japanese people. For example, Japanese people do not regularly eat sushi. Sushi is more for special occasions and surprisingly, it is a lot less healthy when it comes to thinking about calories compared with other more everyday Japanese food, such as gyudon, udon, osouzai, and teishoku, as you see in the picture..

Large lunch plate, plenty to eat!

As indicated earlier, around lunch time, you’ll see a lot of Japanese business people who are working or taking a business trip to Hanoi at Benten. Thus, the volume of food is perfect for those who need a lot of energy to work hard in the afternoon.

This lunch plate is higawari teishoku, which means lunch plate that changes daily. You can choose your main dish and also can choose 3 side dishes of your choice on top of rice and miso soup. It is exactly how it tastes in Japan, so you can expect authentic Japanese food at Benten. Being Japanese, I can guarantee the quality of food here!

Tips for eating at Benten

Since this is a popular place for local Japanese and Japanese people on a business trip to Hanoi, you see a lot of Japanese people here. Because of this, semi-private areas have a lot of customers who are smoking. It is not so common at all to have smoking seats inside of restaurants in many countries today, but at Benten, you will feel and smell the cigarette smoke as you enter the restaurant. Thus, if you dislike cigarette smoke and/or are with small children, you definitely want to request a private room so that you can stay away from it.