LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is "News Stream." Vietnam has fiercely defended its identity for more than a millennium despite successive waves of outside influences. Now in the time of peace, the capital city continues its charm offensive, luring visitors from around the world. Now, in this edition of Destination Hanoi, we take a look at a craft village known for its traditional noodles.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): It's high noon in the old Cu Da, Hanoi's home of commerce. Throughout its history, merchants and artisans came here to peddle their wares, often produced in the craft villages that surround the city. With a history spanning more than 400 years, Cu Da village in the southern part of Hanoi is one of them. The village is best known for its vermicelli or "meyan" (ph) in Vietnamese, a mix of arrowroot flour and water, spread thinly onto large bamboo trays and steamed. The trays are then loaded up on to carts and taken to a nearby field to dry. Today, many of the villagers here earn their living from vermicelli. Together, they produce hundreds of tons of noodles each year which are then consumed across the country.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are in Hanoi Center and I am about to eat this very delicious glass noodle with eel. You can see the eel here, it's fried. And this is the glass noodles that we have recently seen the whole production process. Hanoi food in particular is always like very fresh flavors and all the flavors and the combination of the spices, they always like are the nature of flavors of the food itself. And when you eat it, you can still like feel the real taste of the ingredients.</s>LU STOUT: That looked amazing. I mean, just mouth-watering. That is it for "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is next.
Cu Da: Hanoi's Vermicelli Village.