Tinh Gia Vien Restaurant of Master chef Madame Ha

Tinh Gia Vien Restaurant is one of the most famous restaurants in Hue city. As a guest of the restaurant, you can choose from a menu of over two hundred dishes ranging from local common dishes to more exotic and royal ones in a bonsai garden setting.

Tinh Gia Vien Restaurant has been featured in 20 international magazines and 30 Vietnamese newspapers. It is highly recommended for.  As quoted from the Travel Guide Book - VIETNAM and South-East ASIA: “Highly recommended is the garden setting at Tinh Gia Vien known for serving dishes in the traditional style of  Hue’s imperial court. Master chef Madame Ha’s artistic presentation of the food is reason enough to visit. 

All of her traditional Hue food is elegantly and colorfully presented, much in the form of animals. Order Dance of the Phoenix and a plate of a giant cucumber bird, resting on a nest of noodles, with a pate plume, appears at your table. Green Papaya with Lemon in the Form of a Dragon comes complete with menacing red pepper eyes and tongue. The more subdued Elephant arrives with carrot ears, cucumber tusks, pate head and body, properly dressed in a rice paper crepe. These designs are brilliant, delicious, and great fun as well.Excellent set-course meals cost US $10, 12, 15 per person”.

Serving hours: 6am- 11pm everyday

Address:

Tịnh Gia Viên I: 7/28 Lê Thánh Tôn street- Huế city
Tel:054.3522243/511605
Fax:054.3522243

Tịnh Gia Viên II: 50 Phú Mộng- Kim Long- Huế city
Tel:054.3510644
Email:Tinhgiavien@dng.vnn.vn / Website:Tinhgiavien.com.vn

Trang Tien bridge - The symbol of Hue in my mind

More than ten bridges cross the Perfume River but only one becomes Hue’s symbol: Trang Tien bridge (other name is Truong Tien Bridge)

The legendary city of Hue, once the royal capital of Nguyen Dynasty, has revived like a phoenix, collecting its ashes and is once again showing an energy that has partly been stimulated by UNESCO's attention to its monuments since 1983. Today although the city has changed a lot, the Imperial City's traditions are still alive and amply exhibited in the sampans poled along by women, in the houseboats with their tiny rooftop shrines, in the superb Hue porcelain, and in the delicacies of imperial cuisine. Known as a major tourism destination, Hue Imperial City is a city landscaped with beautiful gardens, peeping terraces, magnificent palaces, and majestic pavilions that rightfully deserve a place among the heritage of the world.

Trang Tien Bridge is one of the main landmarks of Hue. As written in Annual of Unified Great Nam by The office of Vietnam History of the Nguyen Dynasty, "the metal bridge Trang Tien in the south east of the Capital commenced to be built in the 9th year of King Thanh Thai (1897) and then finished in 1899. The bridge is about 400m long with 6 spans".

Trang Tien Bridge is the most beautiful bridge in Hue. It joins the north and the south banks of the Perfume River. The north side of Trang Tien Bridge belongs to Phu Hoa District, close to Dong Ba market. Situated on the Southern bank of Trang Tien Bridge is Phu Hoi District, right in the center of the city. The bridge was reconstructed in 1906. Since then Trang Tien Bridge has been repaired in various occasions. Its length is now 401.10 meter, its width: 6.20 meter.

It is fascinating and refreshing to enjoy the pure air on the bridge in the early morning. However, Trang Tien Bridge usually becomes more lively at night since many local people and tourists come to the park that runs along Perfume River’s northern bank to enjoy the fresh air from Perfume River in Hue as well as to look at the Bridge when it is shined with different colours during the night.

Uyen Nhi