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Your English-speaking local guide will give you an insight into the intricacies and traditions of Vietnamese food culture including details on ingredients and historical backgrounds of popular northern dishes. We eat as we go, sampling a tasty Hanoian street foods from a street cart.
Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our tastebuds with the famed Hanoi dish Bun Cha Ta, Nom Bo Kho, Banh Cuon,,,, at a local eatery. Watch in awe as the skilled chefs demonstrate for you how this tasty dish is put together. Continuing into the atmospheric heart of the Old Quarter, we wander past street stalls and quiet residential lanes where you can observe local life that has changed little since Hanoi was founded over 1000 years ago.
Now, it's time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced and condensed milk – this specialty is one not to be missed!
Your local guide will then take you to one of Hanoi’s best kept secrets, a hidden café inside the old quarter. This hard-to-find café is one of the few left in the city that still serves egg coffee, a scrumptious local delicacy that we will sample whilst admiring the hustle and bustle of the city centre below. Or, if coffee is not your style, a cold beer awaits!
At the end of our Hanoi street food tour you are free to continue exploring the area or your guide will assist you with directions or a taxi back to your hotel.
By Vietmountain Travel
This tour brings you deep inside the old quarter (Pho Co with 72 streets) into small alleys and special local restaurants where people serve local specialities. You will be accompanied by an Vietmountain Travel's local food expert who was born in Hanoi and grew up by local foods, he/she knows local foods and the way of cooking, the history of the foods very well. He/she will help you learn more about Hanoi’s culture through local cuisine.
Our food expert will pick you up at your hotel or any accommodation in Hanoi and take you to the heart of the city – Hoan Kiem lake, after a quick brief, our guide will take you to one of the biggest and most popular markets in the old quarter – Dong Xuan. Wander through the narrow alleyways passing colourful stalls piled high with a vast array of flowers, fresh fruits, vegetables, dried foods, sweets and temple offerings... If you’re brave, venture to the exotic section to see alive frogs, turtles, silkworms, wriggling eels and many other strangle animals and foods to Westerners. The wholesale market is not just a food market, but also other stuff like herbal medicine, clothes, cosmetics, electronics…and if you want to buy somethings, our companion will teach you how to bargain prices.
Your food expert will take you to popular street food stalls where you can try some of the city’s signature dishes. Stop at a local coffee shop to taste the weird and flavourful drink then continue your culinary exploration with a stroll through the maze of bustling streets that make up the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Join the locals and pull up a plastic stool at a pavement stall to try Vietnamese snacks and a cup of iced tea, followed by a sweet dessert of fresh fruit and condensed milk.
End the tour with a cold bia Hơi (light draught beer) at the international crossroad with other tourists and locals.
You have a chance to try:
Phở - Rice noodle soup
Nem rán and bánh Gối - Deep-fried spring rolls and pillow cakes
Bánh cuốn – Rice stuff pancake
Nộm đu đủ với bò khô – Green papaya salad with dried beef
Bánh tôm – Shrimp fried cake
Xôi – sticky rice
Hoa quả dầm - Mixed fresh fruits with milk
Cà phê trứng - Egg coffee
Bia hơi – Light draught beer
Notice: Pick up time is upon your request. It can be sooner or later then the scheduled time. You can book this tour for breakfast, lunch, dinner or at anytime you want.
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