The 10 Tastings of Hanoi With Locals: Private Street Food Tour

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Duration:3 hours (approx.)
Location: Hanoi, Northern Vietnam

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Eat your way through Hanoi's culinary scene on a private food tour. Go on a delicious journey as you try 10 of the best food items beloved by the locals: from savory to sweet and local drinks; this tour will leave every foodie satisfied!

Enjoy tastings typical of the local cuisine and hand-picked by a local guide passionate about food like Shrimp pancake and Egg coffee. But that's not it! This tour is more than just food; it's a cultural experience! In between food stops, you'll also find city highlights making this experience a well-rounded tour that will satisfy every foodie.

Withlocals The 10 Tastings Private Food Tour™ is one of Withlocals' signature tours available in major cities worldwide. We work with passionate local guides who earn a fair fee. We support local economies by only offering local produce and prevent over-tourism with only small non-intrusive groups. Our tours are carbon-neutral and away from the standard tourist routes.

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1. Lotus Water Puppet Theater
Meet your host!
2. Chua Ba Da
Ancient Temple: After meeting your local host at the entrance of the Lotus Water Puppet Theatre, make your way to this beautiful Ba Da Temple, which is one of the four sacred temples in Hanoi
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Let’s Roll: Warm up your tastebuds with a delicious pho roll, consisting of noodles, beef and finished with herbs. Originating from Hanoi this dish has become a local favorite Shrimp Pastry: One of the specialties of Hanoi is fried shrimp pancake. The fried pastry is topped with red shrimps and is eaten together with dishes of spicy vegetables mixed with sweet and sour sauce. You won’t regret it! Summer Vibes: Take a sip of Hanoi beer, locally produced in Hanoi and a very popular alcoholic drink to Hanoians as it is a light, fresh beer, perfect for warm days
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Bonjour!: Catch a glimpse of a fascinating villa built with French architecture in 1930 and hear the story behind it, and how the locals come together here now
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Eat & Dip: This next Hanoian dish is ready to be tasted by you! Enjoy Bún chả, a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork, noodles and some fresh pickled vegetables, served with a delicious dipping sauce Historical Favorite: Make a stop at one of the foodie streets in Hanoi to try a staple in the Vietnamese cuisine: sticky rice. Served together with mung beans and dry shallots, this dish is something that many locals grew up with
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Street Food Classic: Step into a typical Hanoian eatery, where you can try a popular street food item consisting of steamed rice rolls stuffed with pork, mushrooms, or both. Usually, this dish is served with fried shallot dip, sweet and sour fish sauce, a variety of fresh herbs and lime-based sauce on the side
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National Specialty: Known all over the world, Pho is cooked in special broth, and served with beef or chicken, vinegar, spring onions, pepper, and lime juice. This combination is simply divine!
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Bánh Mì Time: The baguette was introduced to Vietnam in the mid-19th century, when Vietnam was part of French Indochina, and became a staple food by the early 20th century. Take a bite out of a fusion of meats, vegetables, cucumber and carrots
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Traditional Medicine: Walk through one of the oldest streets well-known for its specialized industry: traditional medicine. Named after a famous physician, whom your local host can tell you all about
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Fruity Flavors: Find your way to the next street in the Old Quarter to taste some desert! This dish has different kinds of fruits mixed with coconut milk, condensed milk and crushed ice. What a way to satisfy your sweet tooth!
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Coffee & Chill: Visit a family-run cafe that has become a familiar address for Hanoi lovers and the locals. Take a sip of delicious egg coffee, invented in 1940 when a bartender whisked eggs into his coffee as he couldn’t find milk. It’s now one of the most famous coffees in Hanoi
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several styles of architecture used by the French during colonization
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Quaint, unassuming Buddhist temple pagoda built in 1056 & featuring a serene vibe.

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Posted By : Arnaud d
Thank you Lien for the afternoon around the Old Quarter of Hanoi.
You led us to the best spots, everything was fresh and super good. It was a lot of food but definitely worth it!
I totally recommend a tour with you.
All the best
Arnaud
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Posted On : 2024-07-01 05:05:47

Posted By : Andrew H
This walking food tour was amazing from start to finish. We were met by our fabulous host Lien in the Old Quarter before heading off on a foodies paradise of different Vietnamese foods. Lien tailored the food to our likes, but also we got to try some things that we have never had before.

You definitely need to bring your appetite because there is a lot of food. Me and my wife shared all of our dishes and still couldn’t eat it all.

Lien was great company, very easy to talk to and had a very friendly personality. Highly recommended!
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Posted On : 2024-06-12 21:45:36

Posted By : C1201QLkarlah
Ruby was absolutely wonderful and made my son and I feel more at home in this beautiful city! From showing us how to cross the street, to future recommendations on where to eat and what to see or do, this was money well spent. Not to mention the treat of being taken to multiple Michelin star restaurants, she even helped us get a ride back to our hotel in the pouring rain!
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Posted On : 2024-06-12 06:22:35

Posted By : BeeTeeLondon
In a city with an overwhelming number of food and beverage choices, there is only one good option and that is to choose Lien as your guide Through the labyrinth of streets and food options. Her knowledge is unrivalled and her passion unparalleled!
We had the most amazing vegan and pescatarian options offered to our family to cater for us all.
We cannot wait to return to try the many options that we skipped on this trip (mainly because we were too full to eat any more!)
Lien’s communication in advance of meeting us was excellent and she sent us recommendations when we left. An absolutely sensational way to spend a very rainy and wet evening in the Old Quarter.
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Posted On : 2024-06-09 22:03:56

Posted By : Curtnmel14
This is hands down the best tour out there! You really get a feel for what life is like for a local outside of the big city. Manh did an excellent job guiding, teaching & relating personally to us. She took great care in helping us understand what life in rural Hanoi is like. Explaining the cultural, the market, farming, housing, marriage & so much more. The best part was going back to her personal home to teach my husband & I how to make four amazing dishes She actually went a step above by granting my request to teach us how to make my favorite Vietnamese dish! The food was amazing & even won me over to become a pho lover! I’ve always thought pho was fine, but nothing that exciting. Manh’s homemade pho was literally the best I’ve ever had and now I’m excited to go home and make it for my family & friends! I seriously think this was the highlight of our three week trip to Thailand and Vietnam & we saw/did a lot of incredible things!!
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Posted On : 2024-06-02 11:17:16

Posted By : globalgrrrl
My daughter and I picked Ruby to help us with our food tour in Hanoi. We told her that we came from a big city with a massive Vietnamese population so could easily and regularly get pho and banh mi at home. We didn’t want those on our tour. We wanted to understand Vietnamese food at a deeper level given our prior exposure.

Ruby accommodated us. We went to a restaurant that served eel soups and dishes. We had the dried eel with glass noodles (yes we’re fine with eel!). At another place, we tried dried pho ga (chicken) which I’d never heard of before- ie the dried part, not the chicken part. Will be looking for that one at home!

We had bun cha at a Michelin select restaurant and lots of tasty things along the way including rice rolls, those were a fav.

And to finish, we had Kem Bo (avocado ice cream). Sure, it’s trendy but we wanted to try it and Ruby accommodated us.

To top it off, Ruby helped us figure out the timing for Train Street on another day.

Thanks, Ruby!
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Posted On : 2024-06-02 09:06:28

Posted By : T3777YCdavep
Anne was AMAZING! She took us to truly authentic street food spots in Hanoi, including places we would have never known about or had the courage to try ourselves. But Anne was fantastic & talked us through all of the Do’s & Don’ts of Hanoi’s Street Food scene. Our only regret is that we wish we had done the tour with her on the first day not the last, then we could’ve enjoyed more of the delicious food stops that she showed us!

Anne was a delight to be around, such fun & does street food tours, cultural & history tours so was so knowledgeable of Hanoi on all topics! Couldn’t recommend an afternoon with Anne any higher!
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Posted On : 2024-05-27 13:07:12

Posted By : mayumis1991
Day one in Hanoi and we were hot, bothered and overwhelmed but Brian magically steered us through this chaos with information about Vietnam’s history and culture as well as taking us to what seemed like dozens of restaurants and street stalls. Brian was able to explain the cooking processes and ingredients of the extensive array of dishes we tried. He tailored the tour to our food preferences to ensure we were comfortable with his menu choices. He’s also a great conversationalist, so after my wife finished with the foodie questions we were able to cover many other topics while sampling Hanoi’s many delights. I don’t know how we kept eating, drinking and walking for nearly four hours but we did! It was a great night out.
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Posted On : 2024-05-16 10:52:43

Posted By : elizabethmE3483CP
Lien was wonderful. Communicative, pleasant, knowledgeable and friendly. She customized the tour to our preferences and took us to places that we would not have otherwise known to select - as they were all very local. Would do it again!
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Posted On : 2024-05-09 23:53:01

Posted By : graceb517
Ruby was a Great tour guide! Good conversation and informative too.

We went to local restaurants with amazing food… a must experience!
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Posted On : 2024-05-02 21:28:45