Take a guided food tour of Hue, the former capital of Vietnam. cross the Truong Tien Bridge, and sample local dishes at local shops.
Our guide will pick you up at the meeting point and start the food walking tour.
We start the tour at Hang Me Mẹ local restaurant to tast 4 cakes:
- Bánh Bèo (water fern cakes): Bánh bèo is made from a combination of rice flour and tapioca flour. It is popular street food in Vietnam. The ingredients include rice cake, dried shrimps, crispy pork skin, scallion oil, and dipping sauce.
- Bánh Nậm (Flat Steamed Rice Dumpling): Rice flour with mixture of Shrimps and lean meat pork steamed in banana leaves.
- Bánh Lọc ((Rice dumpling cake): It is covered with banana leaf. In each cake, there is a piece of shrimp and ground pork. The fish sauce goes with Bánh bột lọc is different from Bánh bèo. It is saltier, therefore, it is served in a very small plate. How to eat it? You peel the leaf, dip the cake with a sauce, then put it in your mouth… Yummy!
Banh Ram it : sticky cake with dry shrimp and crunchy cake fried at the bottom
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Cơm Hến Đập Đá, 1 Hàn Mặc Tử, Vỹ Dạ, Thành phố Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
We will enjoy Bún Hến- mixed noodles with mussels- A mixed noodles with many kinds of vegetables, peanuts, small mussels…with fish sauce.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Chè Huế - 2 Trương Định, 2 Trương Định, Vĩnh Ninh, Thành phố Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
We will enjoy Chè- Mixed sweet soup with many kind of beans, coconut meats, coconut milk, taro, sweet potatos, corns…
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Quán Cẩm - Bún Bò Huế, 45 Lê Lợi, Phú Hội, Thành phố Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
Bún Bò Huế- Hue Noodles soup with beef, porks or crab's meats.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lạc Thiện Restaurant, 6 Đinh Tiên Hoàng, Phú Hoà, Thành phố Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
- Bánh Khoái- The No.1 Vietnamese rice pancakes- Rice flour with shrimps and pork deep fried in natural oils. We eat with vegetables, sesame and peanut sauce.
Duration: 30 minutes
Last one is Chè cung dinh Hue
Make from beans, sticky rice, banana, tapioca ball…
Sweet and cold flavor dish is the desert for the tour