Sabrina was quite knowledgeable and fun to do the tour with!
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Max 8 exclusive guests, smallest group size in Hanoi (private tour or 9+ guests - contact us)
- 15+ food tastings included, more than any other Hanoi food tour
- Bottled water included
- Moveable feast with 6-7 stops around the streets of old Hanoi
- Led by professional foodie guides
Excludes
- Alcoholic drinks excluded
- Pick up and drop off from hotel excluded
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Meet your guide by the arch, at the coffee shop with the red canopy called "Cafe Ô Quan Chuong". This historic arch is conveniently located near hotels in the north of the Old Quarter.
Return
- The tour ends at the temple on the Hoàn Kiếm lake in the south of the Old Quarter.
Itinerary
Our lunchtime food tour invites guests on a culinary experience around Hanoi. It's a carefully curated food adventure, led by our team of professional food guides. Before we get started, our tour reflects the local cuisine, & the limitations of street food vendors means we unfortunately cannot cater for every dietary restriction. Here's an honest appraisal for the tour, so no-one is disappointed: ✘ Unsuitable for vegetarian diets sorry, as there would be 4-5 less tastings. ✖️ Unsuitable for severe allergies, halal and celiac diets, due to the risk of traces & cross-contamination. If you are feeling adventurous for a foodie journey, read on!
We'll meet at the historic Old Quarter, navigating through street food vendors, decades-old eateries and family-owned recipes that have been passed down generations. We'll crunch on crispy handmade pillow cakes, translucent tapioca dumplings, and caramelized pork belly. We can't miss a Hanoian classic -Chả Cá Lã Vọng, a turmeric-spiked fish dish with dill at a century-old original joint, before a steamy hot bowl of pho at a Michelin-rated eatery. Next up, bánh cuon rice rolls are rolled expertly over the griddle, and later grilled bun cha pork patties are doused over stringy vermicelli noodles and fresh herbs, whilst young green rice flakes are bundled over banana leaves, washed down with dracontomelon juice. There's many more surprises amongst 15+ tastings over the course of 7-8 stops of our moveable feast.
Come hungry, cos we're taking you on a food adventure like no other, to the backstreets to discover the real street food of Hanoi and the food heroes deep inside the culinary underbelly of the North. We'll toast the iconic egg coffee with your seasoned foodie pro guide, an expert in delicious dishes, arming you with the local knowledge to continue eating street food across Vietnam. Pack loose trousers, we'll show you where the locals eat!
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Reviews
We had the best experience on this tour, Sabrina was very knowledgeable on the local dishes we tried and was great at describing the history and tradition behind the dishes. We also walked through the city together where she pointed out interesting facts. Sabrina was very friendly and easy going, tailored the tour to what we wanted and also gave us lots of tourist advice on best places to go. Would highly recommend as a foodie tour, I work in the food industry and the quality of the service was great.
This was a great experience. Tom was an excellent guide and made the whole tour even better with his wonderful personality!
Tung was an incredible tour guide. His attention to detail and knowledge of local restaurants and customs was expansive. He was able to give us an experience we never would have had without him. I would highly recommend!!
Tung was super knowledgable and considerate throughout the whole tour! He made sure he shared more than the food knowledge but also history of Vietnam! Would def do this tour again!
This is an EXCELLENT food tour. Every dish delicious and Tom my guide explained everything perfectly. Absolutely recommend this tour to see and taste Hanoi.
I had a great time with Tom! Everything that we ate was so delicious - Hanoi can be overwhelming with all the restaurants, it’s so nice to have a local show you the best spots to go to!!
This tour was a great way to try a great variety of food that Hanoi has to offer. Lot of places you would likely pass by if not on the tour. Our guide Tùng was great! Very enthusiastic and educational!
Tung did a great job! Good walking tour of the old quarter with lots of tasty street food bites.
Great food tour - we tried lots of delicious food and left very full! Visited spots we wouldn’t have found otherwise so found it very helpful. We wish there had been more time for informal conversation about living in Vietnam like we have experienced on food tours in other places.
Good food and good company! Our tour guide Tung (Tom) was very enthusiastic and funny! Totally recommend.
An amazing food tour through the back streets and old town of Hanoi. We had loads of food, and a wide variety of options. Tom was extremely knowledgeable and very passionate about his job, what a great way to see the City and enjoy the culinary delights. Thanks, Tom. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tom was such an engaging and fun guide for our food tour. You can tell that he is passionate about what he does and that is loves educating tourists about the history of Hanoi and Vietnam through food.
An amazing way to experience Hanoi, and Tom was a fantastic guide!
Tom was the best host and the food was amazing! Egg coffee to close it out was the best!
The guide was very energetic and engaged. Highly recommended
It was very nice. 15 dishes to taste
AMAZING - just book it Great guide added in a lot of extra information felt more like a tour than just a future tour, which was exactly what we needed
Tom was an amazing and enthusiastic tour guide and kept us moving and on time! He was so kind!
Tom was an excellent guide, taking us to a variety of street food locations with a large variety of food to dry. As a native of Hanoi, his knowledge of the history and traditions was of course fantastic, and he was willing to answer all sorts of questions we had as they came up. We would highly recommend this tour for anyone.
Tom did a great job with our tour. You get to sample the best of all the Vietnamese foods very quickly.
Very good food tour with Tom! He was very kind and explained to us all about Vietnamese food and culture. He worked hard and helped us even though it was very hot and a national holiday. He spoke great English and was easy to speak to and explained stuff well to us. All the food was delicious as well!
I had so much fun! I lovely walking tour with very yummy food. Tom our guide was very knowledgeable and energetic and kept our spirits up for the entire time. Great mix of food and juice to keep us refreshed.
Tom was great! Very energetic and knowledgeable. Very glad we booked with him!
We had a lovely day with Tom it was well placed and easy walking in Hanoi. A good way to see the city and learn about the food!
We spent almost 4 hours with our guide Tom and really enjoyed the experience. The pace is perfect and the number of tastings is unbelievable, we wouldn't have found these restaurants otherwise. Totally recommended if you want to fully immerse yourself in Hanoi street food atmosphere and learn some interesting facts too.
Amazing food tour in Hanoi! I had such a great time on this food tour today in Hanoi! We tried so many of the most interesting and delicious local dishes, and honestly, we ate so much that we could barely move afterwards. 😂 A special mention to our guide, Tom, who was absolutely amazing. He was very professional, explained everything really well, and showed us so many new and interesting things about Hanoi and Vietnamese food. Beyond the tour itself, we also had some great conversations and ended up becoming good friends! I genuinely had an amazing experience and would highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Hanoi.... 🇻🇳🍜
We had a great time with Tom! He was so informative and enthusiastic about every thin. He brought us to some really local spots and gave us the history of all of Ha Noi. We really enjoyed the experience he gave us, it was very helpful to experience local eating in Ha Noi and learn about the culture. Definitely recommend booking with him!
I really enjoyed being with Tom he was a great tour guide and did a great job explaining to us, he made the experience very pleasant. Very sweet guy and would 100% do it again
Tom did a great job showing us around and explaining the history behind the food and the place. Great variety of food.
Tom was a fantastic guide and the food stops were also great! Great options for lesser known foods/restaurants.
A really great value tour...be prepared lots of walking in Hanoi but a chance to try many of Hanoi's signature dishes in tiny family run venues. Tom was a lovely, fun and knowledgeable guide. Excellent tour!
So great!! Really really enjoyed the tour with Tom and learned so much about Vietnamese food and culture
Tung (Tom) was amazing! Very knowledgeable and thoughtful, and made sure we were comfortable even during a heat wave.
We had such a great time on this tour! The stops were absolutely delicious, and our guide (Tom/Tung) was enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and kind. We feel so lucky to have gotten to do this trip in Hanoi!
I really enjoyed the diversity of food and pace of the tour, Tung was a very good and knowledgable guide!
The tour was very good, our tour guide Tom was insightful and friendly, and kept us informed the whole trip. Would highly recommend this tour to others.
Had a lot of fun trying a super diverse amount of foods, and a well placed refreshing juice in the middle :)
I took the Hungry Tour with Tung, had the oportunity to take it solo so the experience was personalized. He's energetic, fun and well informed about history and ingredients. What an amazing tour for the start of my trip. You'll get to know the city, traditions and tastes. Definitely recommend!
Tung made it a very fun, lively experience : lots of delicious local food! Had a great time.
It was a very nice experience. A lot of new flavours and traditional dishes. Our guide Tung was very kind and generous, he explained a lot about traditions and places to visit.
We had an amazing experience on the culinary tour! Tung was an amazing guide and he was very friendly and helpful. I would definitely recommend this tour!
This is our third location of doing a chef tour. We have done two different ones in Bangkok and now onto our Day tour in Hanoi. We also have the Hanoi dusk tour booked later on. We find these tours a great way to learn the best of the best "local" food and history. This tour was with Stella and the meeting point was handy for us, just a short walk in the old quarter. Note the cafe where you meet is easy to find but what confused us is they say it has a red canopy, we could not see a red canopy, maybe if you stood far back, anyhow I will add a photo of the cafe and Stella. Stella is fairly new at this job but by no means a beginner. The 3.5 hours approx flew by but you can set your own pace. The tour was a great mix of food ranging from the well know to the unknown but nothing weird. For some maybe the eel cake might be but it was delicious, the both it was in was super tasty. if you really don't want to try something there is no pressure but I suggest you do. We got to try Cha Ca a very famous dish in Hanoi that we have been wanting to try for ages. We found out the four most famous foods of Hanoi are Banh mi, Pho, Bun Cha and Cha Ca and we tried them all. The tour felt like going out for the day with a friend, just this friend knows a lot more about Hanoi and food than us. It was really a two way tour with Stella also learning about us and how things are for us. The tour states 15+ tastings, they are not kidding! I would call them meals. I fast learnt from doing the other tours that it is ok just to taste rather than consume everything as you will never finish if you do that. The booking process is easy and communication very clear, really good value for your $ and a great way to get comfortable with a new city. After Hanoi we go to Koh Samui in Thailand for two weeks and have just booked the new chef tour there which I am excited to do as we have been going there for ages so it would be good to find some hidden places we don't know about.
Before the tour, Tung was in touch to provide clear instructions on what to expect and where to meet. Once we arrived to our starting point we provided with a bottle of water and began the tour. Tung provided rich information about the food we were tasting and the local history of the area. It was a fantastic tour with a very enthusiastic and friendly guide. I feel I've had a well rounded tour and trusted so much food. Would recommend. Thanks!
We had such a fun time with Tung—excellent knowledge and really passionate guide. The food was also phenomenal 🥰
We had a lunchtime tour with Dalia in Hanoi. She was the goat, super super friendly and had a great personality. Food was also super good, got a good sense of what north vietnamese cuisine is like. Great way to start your visit to the city.
Excellent food tour with Tung! He took us to many authentic places and was extremely kind.
Our experience with Tung was great! Delicious food in a variety of off the beaten path locations. Highly recommend this tour and Tung!
I had a great time on the tour with Dahlia as my guide! She took me to food spots I would never have found on my own, and I tried the most delicious food. The whole tour felt really laidback, moving on to the next location at your own pace, with lots of information shared on the food, the restaurants and vietnamese culture. I would highly recommend!
Excellent tour today! Luckily I was the only one so it became a custom tour just for me! Tom was amazing and knew so much about the history of each dish and the city. Highly recommend this tour - and with Tom as the guide for sure!
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