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Ho Chi Minh City: Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings
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Ho Chi Minh City: Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings

By Saigonese Real Experience
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$48 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • Immerse yourself in the tastes and smells of Ho Chi Minh City on a food tour
  • Travel on the back of a scooter around Saigon to visit various food stalls
  • Make friends with your local guide and get recommendations on what else to try
  • Try your hand at cooking some of your own Vietnamese food during the activity
  • Taste traditional Vietnamese dishes, including Banh Mi, noodle soup, and more

Activity location

    • Ho Chi Minh City
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Phường 6, Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 700000, Vietnam | Your guide will be waiting for you at the ticket box of the War Remnants Museum. Meeting point is at: 28 Vo Van Tan Street, District 3(ticket box of the War Remnants Museum). Your guide will be holding a smartphone with your name on it. Also our guide will text you on whatsapp or email before the tour. So please text us on whatsapp or email us for easy pick up after booking this tour.
    • Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam

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Private Tour with Hotel Transfer
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 6:00 pm
Price details
NZ$48.49 x 1 AdultNZ$48.49

Total
Price is NZ$48.49
Until Sun, 16 Jun
Small-Group Tour with Hotel Transfer
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$48.49 x 1 AdultNZ$48.49

Total
Price is NZ$48.49
Small-group Tour with a Meeting Point
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$48.49 x 1 AdultNZ$48.49

Total
Price is NZ$48.49

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off (in Districts 1, 3, 4 and 5)
  • What's includedWhat's included 11 food tastings and 3-4 drinks
  • What's includedWhat's included Guide
  • What's includedWhat's included Driver
  • What's includedWhat's included Helmet
  • What's includedWhat's included Raincoat and mask (if needed)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTips

What you can expect

Taste the best 11 foods offered by Saigon's local food stands. Travel around the city by scooter, taking in hidden gems and more. Try foods, such as Banh xeo, Hue beef noodle soup, and Banh mi made before your eyes. Choose your departure time: at 8AM(morning), 1PM(afternoon), 5:30PM, 6PM, 6:30PM or 7PM(evening)

*Detailed itinerary:

After hotel pickup by scooter, zoom off your first stop for an starter. Sit like a local at the food stall eating 1#banana sticky rice before attending a small cooking class where you will make your own 2#Banh xeo (mini savoury crispy pancakes), rolled up with 3#grilled beef wrapped in betel leaf.

Then, take a walk around the street food heaven in District 10 to taste 4#shredded pork crispy rice and 5#fried bao buns. At the next stop, immerse yourself in the biggest flower market of Saigon and try the best 6#Vietnamese pizza, 7#grilled crackers, and challenge yourself with 8#snails stuffed with pork.

Next, venture into the oldest apartment area to enjoy sugarcane juice and 9#Hue beef noodle soup before stopping for fantastic 10#Banh mi. Finally, head for 11#dessert with different flavoured caramel flans and jams before heading back to your hotel. Especially your guides(also your drivers) are local students who are excellent licensed drivers, well-trained and fluent in English

*11 tastings menu:

1.Mini sizzling savoury pancake (Bánh xèo):
Ingredients: Rice flour, coconut milk, egg, and turmeric powder
Fillings: Shrimp and pork, bean sprouts, and mung beans
Served with mustard greens, lettuce, herbs like: Thai basil, purple mint, amparella leaf, fish sauce

2.Grilled beef wrapped in betel leaf (Bò lá lốt):
Served with: Vermicelli, rice paper, green banana, star fruit, fish sauce with pineapple

3.Fried bao buns (Bánh bao chiên):
Ingredients: Wheat flour, yeast, baking powder, milk, sugar
Fillings: Wood ear mushroom, minced pork, quail eggs, garlic, spring onions

4.Shredded pork crispy rice (Cơm Cháy Chà Bông):
Ingredients: Crispy rice, shredded pork, toasted shrimp flakes, scallion oil

5.Grilled banana sticky rice (Chuối nếp nướng):
Ingredients: Ripe bananas, sticky rice, coconut milk, toasted sesame seeds, tapioca

6.Hue beef noodle soup (Bún Bò Huế):
Broth ingredients: Beef bones, lemongrass, shrimp paste, pineapple
Other ingredients: Beef brisket, crab sausage, onions, spring onions

7.Vietnamese pizza (Bánh tráng nướng):
Ingredients: Grilled rice paper, quail's egg, corn, pork sausage, mayonnaise, chilli sauce, shrimp flakes

8.Snails stuffed with pork (Ốc nhồi thịt):
Ingredients: Snails, minced pork, lemongrass, pepper, shallot,…

9.Grilled rice paper cake (Bánh phồng nướng):
Ingredients: Rice milk, wheat flour, coconut milk,…

10.Saigon's signature baguette (Bánh Mì):
Fillings: Pork sausage, pate (made from pig liver), butter, pickles, herbs, cucumber, chilli,…

11.Dessert:
Caramel flans, jam, or yoghurt in many different flavours

-Drinks: Iced tea and Sugarcane Juice with kumquat or local Beer

Location

Activity location

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    • Ho Chi Minh City
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • Phường 6, Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 700000, Vietnam | Your guide will be waiting for you at the ticket box of the War Remnants Museum. Meeting point is at: 28 Vo Van Tan Street, District 3(ticket box of the War Remnants Museum). Your guide will be holding a smartphone with your name on it. Also our guide will text you on whatsapp or email before the tour. So please text us on whatsapp or email us for easy pick up after booking this tour.
    • Quận 3, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam