Madame Ngo une Brasserie Hanoi

Name: Madame Ngo une Brasserie Hanoi
Address: Kantstraße 30, Berlin, Berlin, 10623, DE
Price range: 20–30 €

Vietnamese-French brasserie in a former pharmacy on Kantstraße: pho with a broth simmered for ten hours, nem and pork belly three ways.

Madame Ngo une Brasserie Hanoi – Vietnamese in Berlin-Charlottenburg — Photos: Madame Ngo Une Brasserie Hanoi

Madame Ngo occupies a former pharmacy on Kantstraße, right next to Kuchi, where The Duc Ngo started out in 1999. Ngo was born in Hanoi, and the restaurant is a homage to the city: half Vietnamese soup kitchen, half French brasserie, the way the two cuisines mixed in Indochina. The big pots for the pho stand in the shop window.

Insider tip

„Order a pho at lunch — the broth simmers for around ten hours.“

For the broth, dozens of poultry carcasses and several whole chickens simmer for around ten hours, skimmed again and again until it runs clear. During the day soups and pho dominate; in the evening the French-influenced dishes join them. The menu lists nem Hà Nội with crab and pork, green papaya salad with beef jerky, "Les Trois Cochons", pork belly three ways, grilled, braised and boiled, and crevettes de Paris with crème fraîche. At first the menu was much more French; after about a year Ngo shifted it more towards Vietnam.