Bún chả is served as lunch in Hanoi. The dish consists of grilled pork balls, or patties, served with rice noodles and a dipping sauce. In the south of Vietnam there is a similar dish called bún thịt nướng, which is served with grilled pork on top the rice noodles.

The grilled pork was already served in the dipping sauce with some carrot and sliced green papaya. The dipping sauce is made from diluted fish sauce with sugar, lime juice, rice wine vinegar, crushed garlic and chilli.

You add the rice noodles to the bowl and add fresh chillis and crushed garlic according to taste. Of course there is plenty of fresh kinh giới served on the table.

As a side dish I ordered fried springs rolls, which are called nem rán in Hanoi. In the South of Vietnam they are called chả giò.

Most bún chả restaurants grill the pork on the street, which is great advertising.