Chookie's Beer Garden - Huyen Hoa Lu

Lovely setting, and a sign on the road advertising vegan smoothies and a falafel burger made us stop for lunch. Thankfully the waitress was attentive enough to point out that the coconut coffee IS NOT VEGAN when I ordered it, I changed my order to a cinnamon tea which she told me had honey in so I asked to leave that out and simply use sugar instead. I ate the tofu scrambles which was nice and my partner had the falafel burger (leave out mayonnaise to make it vegan) and enjoyed that. It was only a small portion of fries with it though. We both ordered the apple crumble for dessert and I should have trusted my instincts after reading coconut oil in the description. It's all it tasted of and frankly, I found it awful. Only ate one mouthful. It's not cheap here, but you can see the pricing first so that's your decision. The staff are nice though but please check what you are ordering and don't just trust other reviews on here which mistakenly recommend the coconut coffee. It's nearly always made with condensed dairy milk in Vietnam.

Really lovely place! I visited the two different ones in Ninh Binh and they are both beautiful and yummy. I had the falafel burger at one place and the tofu salad at the other one. I think the falafel burger had mayo inside on the bun! I’m not 100% sure but it did taste like mayo! So be careful with that.

We ordered the chips and the summer rolls. The chips are labelled Vegan Chips but come with some very UnVegan mayonnaise The summer rolls were ok but constantly having to bat away flyes is annoying

Only came here for the coconut coffee, and it didn’t disappoint. Lots of other options on the menu, but the dishes were pricey. If I had the money I’d have most likely eaten here!

Nice chilled place (in the morning/early afternoon), the hammocks in the front are a great bonus to relax with a drink. The breakfast is great and has a vegan scrambled tofu meal on the menu. Highly recommended the ice coconut coffee!