Hanoi Hannah

I went out to dinner with Jill and Rachel to Hanoi Hannah in High Street Prahran/Windsor, I trendy Vietnamese café where people are queuing all night to get in. It was small and crowded and busy and noisy. The food was all right, small tappas type serves, expensive’ish, Chicken wings, two $12. You had to order a lot of dishes for a meal. Their pineapple and lychee slushies were gorgeous.

Yeah, it was good. It had the “buzz.” Sure. It’s “in” clearly. We were propped up on rather uncomfortable bar stools and we had trouble hearing each other because of the hard finishes and the noise. I don’t know, maybe I have just got mean, but when you have to queue for a place that serves relatively small dishes which cost the same as a main size dish at another cafe where you can just walk in and sit down, what’s the point?

Melbourne isn’t short of good eating establishments, you know. And queuing is about something other than good food. It’s about style and not about eating.