Hanoi Afternoon Taste

HANOI AFTERNOON TASTE gives you a completely different feeling about our beloved capital city. With 3.5 hours combine walk and taxi, you will visit the crowded wet markets, taste the amazing authentic food and drink in a larger area for your memorable lunch, from the bustling Old Quarter, charming colonial corners and picturesque city’s lakes. All foods are showed to you is hygienically and symbolize for the quintessence of Vietnamese cuisine.

Our food expert guide pick up you at your hotel. After do the itinerary briefing, we take a walk or taxi transfer to the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Experience the noon time bustling streets with mega scooters, motorcycles and cars. Get a glimpse into daily life when you see all people stop working and go out for the lunch. This period, all most of our local street food restaurants are busy and full of customers.

The first stop of our food tour is a local restaurant where offer you with rice noodle soup with beef or chicken. Continue walk, we stop in a street next to the Saint Joseph cathedral. This is an wonderful oppotunity to taste different type of Vietnamese food, including Banh Goi (The deep fry rice paper with mill pork, vermicelli, mushroom), Banh Ran (The sticky rice ball cake), Banh Tom (The shrimp cake) or Nem (The spring roll). Tour then heading to a tiny shop where you can try some Banh Mi (The Vietnamese sandwich).

From the Old Quarter of Hanoi, we take a taxi to John McCain lake, West lake and Ngu Xa village. Our food tour continue in a Pho Cuon restaurant. Taste some steaming rice paper, roll with beef, salad, coriander. In the next stop, we try the rice noodle soup with seafood. The last stop of the afternoon Hanoi food tour is a local cafe, date back to 1946 where you can try the best Hanoi specialties - Ca Phe Trung (The egg coffee) and sunflower seed. At about 16:00, we walk or take a taxi back to your hotel.