This photo taken on December 5, 2025, shows a woman using her phone while waiting for customers at a street food stall on a sidewalk in Hanoi. The pavements of Hanoi's wide boulevards and narrow lanes have long been clogged with bustling food stalls, weaving scooters, and crowds of coffee and beer drinkers sitting on low plastic stools. But the spontaneity that charmed tourists and supported street vendors in Vietnam's capital has subsided in recent months as authorities clamp down on illegal use of footpaths (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'VIETNAM-ECONOMY-FOOD-SOCIAL,FOCUS' by Tran Thi Minh Ha and Ty McCormick