
The streets of Hanoi tend to be a very foreign place for most of our street food tour clients. There's a lot to take in. A lot might be said. It can be sensory overload. Indeed, if Hanoi is a person's first ever stop in Asia, it will most likely be bewildering and confronting. And there is no doubt that a street food tour can accentuate those feelings.

While we don't want to protect or molly-coddle our clients, we do want them to have an enjoyable and relaxing experience rather than a stressful or confusing one. So we wander. And we see things and we eat and drink things.
At certain points, we explain things. But we don't talk from go to woe. Much of the experience of Hanoi is about allowing time for the brain to process the message from the eyes...or the nose...or the ears. If we yack too much, it interferes with that process.
But we do get a lot of questions.
Which we love answering.

Like, what is that bright green thing wrapped in plastic?

Or what is that drying on the handlebars of that bicycle?
Do people really eat that? Um...and what is it?
And then later, when our customers are relaxing back at their hotel, we send them some information from
here and
there, which they can peruse at their leisure.
I suppose you would call it 'after sales service'.
Last stop on on Vietnam adventure was with Mr Tu a guy who travels the world eating. He had previously managed one of the Hanoi 's restaurants, writes for a couple foody magasines and has a Vietnam food blog. He was also quite young but very nice. ( oh and he was really onto Kath and Kim and showed us the app on his iPad which just made us like him all the more. )He has been to Australia a few times and understood where we came from and Aussie slang.
ReplyDeleteThe tour was wonderful. We did all the things we really wanted to do. Ate at tiny plastic chairs and table, found really good coffee up an alleyway in a very low roofed room. We went into buildings with multiple staircases branching off in all directions with tiny kitchens tucked into hallways. We went down back alleyways that we would never dare enter by ourselves and saw how the locals lived.
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This was the perfect way to end our stay in this wonderful culinary country. Our only regrets not finding a tour like this at the beginning of the stay- we just might have been able to squeeze a few more dishes in!
We just did a morning tour of the narrow busy streets of old Hanoi with Tu as our street food guide. It was a fantastic, delicious and sometimes tastebud-challenging experience for both us and our two kids of 3 and 6 years. It is our first day in Hanoi and while walking the streets with thousands of motorbikes around us was pretty scaring, Tu - on top of the delicious food experience also tought us a bit about survival in this scooter jungle. Thumbs up for Tu - if you are in Hanoi it's a half day well spent
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Doing the street food tour with TU was the best move of our 4-day Hanoi holiday. We're glad we booked it for the first day of our trip - having a local take you around and help you get your bearings was priceless, including little tips like how to cross the street, how to order, which cab to take, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe did a full day tour - lunch time onwards. We must've eaten 15+ or so items, but Tu was careful to caution us to pace ourselves (no pressure to finish everything on our plate, so we could have room for more). The pace of the tour was great - enough walking to burn some of the calories, but not enough to break a sweat. We were lucky to have cool but sunny weather.
Tu himself is easy-going, very friendly and game to answer all kinds of questions. He knew the vendors/sellers well. We showed him our initial list of places to eat (from the internet) and he patiently gave tips on each one (e.g. overpriced, this one had closed already, etc)
Everything we had was good, but our favorites were:
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We also loved the "after-service": Tu emailed us photos he took throughout the tour as well as links on blog writeups about everything we ate.
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We did the full day tour with Tu on our second day in Hanoi and it was one of the highlights of our trip. We returned later to several of the vendors for repeats. In addition to the delicious food, Tu is a lot of fun. I have already recommended this to a number of folks, and urge anyone who visits Hanoi to make it a priority.
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We ran around the food stalls in Hanoi with Tu a few weeks ago and were so impressed with his energy and insight. And everything he selected was so delicious. We compared the pho we had on the street with every one we had all through Vietnam...and we kept wishing we were back in Hanoi eating that one. Take a tour with him--you'll learn so much, have so much fun and eat so well
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What a brilliant way to spend a morning! We walked the busy streets of Hanoi with our insightful and entertaining guide; Tu. While ensuring everything was safe and hygienic, he brought us to the most local and authentic street food stalls. The food was spectacular; fresh with fantastic tastes. However, it was Tu's company that really made the tour memorable.
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ReplyDeleteHuge thanks for taking us on the food tour during our recent visit to Hanoi. We have just got back home to Melbourne and your tour and the overall street food scene in Hanoi was unanimously the highlight of our holiday. We got to experience places and food that we would never have discovered on our own. And your follow-up recommendations for eating in Hoi An and Saigon were also very helpful.
Thanks again. We hope to visit again in future.
Regards....The Steele Family (Melbourne)
I think there are many interesting things to discover in Hanoi. The old town with old architecture, a two stone tea stalls, sidewalk pavement always crowded. Or enjoy the familiar old dishes such as fish rolls, dried cow dumplings, vermicelli noodles, bun cha, cereal etc. All will make you forget about Hanoi. GoAsiaDayTrip.com have Hanoi Free Tour for all of you! Check it now!
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ReplyDeleteWe enjoyed a delicious food tour with Tu. He took us to places we would never have found, not to mention known about. We made 5 or 6 stops to eat and drink. Tu was entertaining and cheerful, a great companion with whom to get a taste of Hanoi!
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