– Personal Hanoi Food Tour For Discerning Travelers –
Suggested 9h00, 16h00
3,5 Hours
Private tour
$80 per person
Maximum 8 travelers
Walking distance is about 2 to 3 miles (3-5km)
Vegans & Allergies are accommodated
Tour runs shine or rain
Overview
This tour features a circular walk around the heart of Hanoi Old Quarter, exploring the entire old quarter’s history and its people through your taste buds. Hidden alleys and typical tasting places are mindfully curated and explained with the “why” and “how”, so we won’t only eat along the way but also get the story behind each eatery. It’s ideal for curious travelers wanting to learn in depth about the old town.
Itinerary
From Cau Go Street in the southern end of the Old Quarter, where there’re tasting choices of Hanoi’s famous egg coffee, green papaya salad, and steamed sticky rice cake, we walk towards the northeast. Passing along a backstreet to Hang Chinh, there comes a chance to sample a mixed broth soften water celery and brown flat noodles.
Traverse a narrow path, which is privately shared among a community within a block, then walk through another community’s “dark tunnel” to reach Nguyen Sieu Street. Therein comes choices of tasting a freshwater crab noodle soup and chicken noodle dish. Visit a traditional Vietnamese house nested behind the busy shops on the main street, and during the conversation with our host, learn about the Old Quarter through the eyes of an 80-year-old Hanoian.
Visit Thanh Ha traditional street market to get a view of most common foods and ingredients purchased by locals, watch how they sell and buy food for daily meals. Walk through an unseen passage to reach the northern end of the quarter, there comes a chance to sample carp fish noodle soup.
Start heading south of the old town, passing through Dong Xuan wholesale market and its busy food alley with more tastings, then visit a state-owned shop on medicinal Lan Ong Street and sample the traditional medicinal herbs rice liquor – which is considered as the soul of the Old Quarter.
See how rice noodles are made with an exclusive visit to a place supplying rice noodles to the whole area, and on Bat Dan Street, we may enjoy one of the most loved beef noodle soups in town (available for breakfast & dinner only). Pass through a hidden alley with a chance to sample grilled pork with home-mixed fish sauce, then we end our circular walk where we started.
Prices quoted are on a per person and a private group bases
GROUP SIZE | 1 PAX | 2 PAX | 3 – 5 PAX | 6 – 8 PAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PRICE (USD) | $110 | $80 | $65 | $55 |
Food tastings vary according to touring time and travelers’ preferences
A Bird Cage on Thuoc Bac Street
The Street That Was Selling Traditional Chinese Medicine
An Unseen Alley on Ngo Gach Street
The Narrow Alley is The Only Sharing Passage to 22 Families
Ms. Huong At Her Door Steps
Her Traditional House is Hidden Behind Shops on Hang Chieu Street
Chicken Noodle Soups & Vietnamese Donuts
The Soups Are Topped With Slices of Boiled Chicken, Scallions, and Thinly Sliced Lime
A Young Craftsman Steaming The Rice Batter
At A Family That Supplies Fresh Pho Noodles For Restaurants in the Old Quarter
Brown Rice Vermicelli Salad
A Mixture Of Vermicelli, Water Celery, Bean Sprout, Fish Cake, and Rice Field Crab Broth
