We love street eats and see it as the best way to explore a city, so we always prioritize a new city visit with a guided food tour. In our most recent vacation to Vietnam, a friend of us from New York recommended us Flavors of Hanoi for a private Hanoi Food Tour.
Food is the purest example and expression of an entire cultural and regional identity. The best way to discover more about a foreign city, especially one that’s as rich in history and culture as Hanoi, is through an exclusive gastronomic experience in the form of an intimate, and intuieractive tour with a local foodie guide.
Based on rice, which Vietnamese people eat three times a day. The Vietnamese cuisine is about the cooking of the green vegetable, fresh meat or fish using fresh herbs and spices to make delicious dishes to eat with the steamed rice.
When you wish for a change from the noodles or other traditional Vietnamese foods, La Badiane (French, for the star anise) comes up to be a great alternative in Hanoi to go for. It’s a Hanoi’s well-known French restaurant, offering fusion of Vietnamese and French flavors with international gastronomy.
On many of our Hanoi Food Tours exposing the city’s most typical street eats and daily home-meals of the Hanoians, we received questions related to various types of noodles. Many of them were about noodle dishes we sampled on our walk, many of them were about the noodle itself, such as “what’s the Vietnamese cellophane noodle made from?”
Street food in Hanoi is known to be a real heart-stopper. The city’s cuisine is powered by the idea that anything can be made better with spices, and it’s cooking menthods are perfected by families who has been serving the only one-dish for decades. If it’s good fresh, just imagine how cool it will be when you try it on the sidewalk!
