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Submitted by honghanh on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 11:30
Hanoi’s hotspots and traditional corners, including a flower market, a small village weaving silk and a cinematheque café, will be revealed in an episode of the five-part series. The Real…, on the BBC television in this September.

The Real…Hanoi enlisted help from three well-known local residents.

 

For morning in Hanoi, resident performance artist, surrealist painter and dancer, Dao Anh Khanh guides viewers through an early morning tour of the magical Night Flower Market in Tay Ho. There, growers layout their blooms just after midnight for the flower sellers who buy and then transport flowers to every corner of Hanoi.

 

The tour with Khanh continues with a trip to a village North West of the city where generations of families spend three months of the year making nothing but Lotus flower tea during the Lotus flowering season (May – July).

 

The afternoon in Hanoi is spent with interior designer Alan Duong. Alan Duong is a self-trained interior and furniture designer who owns and runs shops and supper clubs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and exports to over thirty countries.

 

Alan uses a huge amount of exquisite local Vietnamese silk to make her lampshades and sources much of this silk from a small village just south of the city that specialises in weaving the beautiful cloth. It’s also a great place for visitors to purchase material to bring to tailors for made-to-order clothes.

 

In the evening, up-coming Vietnamese film director Nguyen Manh Ha introduces foreign friends to traditional Vietnamese rice wine in the courtyard café linked to Cinematique, a cinema that specialises in a mixed selection of art house films.

 

From there Ha gets on his motorbike, crosses the Red River and takes the hosts for a tour of the new Son Tinh Liquor Factory where Ha’s traditional rice wine is now made.

 

The Real… is a weekly five-part series which takes viewers on a tour to find the secret haunts and hidden hot spots of five cities, namely Cairo, Milan, Stockholm, Hanoi and San Francisco.

 

Viewers in Vietnam can watch the Hanoi episode at 21.30pm on September 20, 15.30pm on September 21 and 00.30am on September 22.
VOVNews/BBC

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