Vibrant and chaotic, Hanoi is one of our favourite cities in Southeast Asia. Although it’s well set up with tourist infrastructure, it doesn’t feel as though you’re in a tourist trap – it still feels utterly authentic. The old quarter oozes charm, from the faded-yellow facades of the remaining colonial-era buildings and the impressive fig trees with their curtains of filamentous roots to the women in their traditional conical hats, grilling pork in the gutter, wheeling bicycl