This almost-divey bar is no more; the last time I was in Hanoi, I made a point of walking down "coffee street' in the Old Quarter, Hang Hanh, and it had been replaced by a hotel.
More specifically, according to Google, it has been replaced by one Lakeside Palace Hotel, a boutique hotel with "warm cherrywood furniture...silks and natural linen...Italian marble bathroom". The hotel has seven storeys and a restaurant at the top. By Hanoi standards, at least on the website it doesn't look really, seriously, competitively upscale--yet--but it is certainly not a earthy as the Funky Monkey was.
Funky Monkey was a dark and cool and well-located place to get a Tiger Beer. Whether or not karaoke ever happened there, I don't know, but my guess is yes, it certainly did.
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