The New Hanoian and Infoshare offer expat arrivals to the capital a road map to the essentials

Elliot Price meets with the managing director of Club Opera. The restaurant’s management hopes to be featured in The New Hanoian. Price, a 35-year-old American, co-founded this popular online forum in 2005, where users can post free job listings, classified ads and write their own reviews of favorite spots around town.

In 2004, Elliot Price left an English language teaching job in Taiwan and came to Hanoi. He was impressed with the city’s glut of booming businesses, but he didn’t know which ones to go to.
In general, he found the city lacking in online English-language resources for new-arrivals.
He wanted a directory of destinations popular with locals and long-time residents. At the time, all that was available were tourist handbooks like Lonely Planet...