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Eat like a local and explore the city streets of Hue by cyclo. You’ll taste plenty of street food and get an overview of Hue’s culinary culture with commentary by a professional and informative guide. Visit Dong Ba Market where you can mingle with the locals. Sink your teeth into a variety of dishes, such as steamed or fried rice dumplings, and slurp up vermicelli soup. Hotel pickup is included.

One of the best ways to get to know a city is through its food scene. This street food tour of Hue takes care of the guesswork and research for you with a curated itinerary and guide leading the way. Navigate the city more efficiently with a guide and ask as many questions as you like about each dish.

Experience the flavors of Hue in this small-group Vietnamese cooking class and market visit. Your day will start with a trip to a local food market where you’ll learn about daily life in Hue and traditional ingredients. You’ll then head back to the kitchen for a cooking class with a local chef, where you’ll learn how to make several different dishes, before sitting down and enjoying your meal together.

Our local guides take small groups (max 8) to family eateries that don't advertise — where cooks have been making the same bánh bèo (steamed rice cakes with dried shrimp), bánh khoái (crispy Hue-style pancake) and nem lụi (grilled pork skewers wrapped in rice paper) for generations. Eight signature dishes across three hours. These are the foods of Hue, a city where royal cuisine and home cooking have long influenced each other: techniques from the Nguyễn court traveled into neighborhood kitchens, and street-stall flavors made their way back into court banquets. Choose how to move: on foot through hidden alleys, by cyclo along the Perfume River, or by scooter to spots further outside the city center. The kind of tour we'd take a friend on if they came to visit.

For those who are looking to get a soak up some local culture and getting a better feel for the city while enjoying its local delicacies, we recommend taking a walking tour. As we walk, our guide(s) will reveal stories of the city and its cuisine, which we hope will develop a greater appreciation of the complexity and history of Hue. Our priority is your great time in Hue.

Take a half-day to dine like a true local in the Imperial City. With this guided small-group tour, you’ll taste more Hue delicacies than you count, from che to banh beo to bun bo hue to banh khoai—you’ll also cool off with some local beer. You’ll walk away with new eyes for Hue, plus an understanding of what makes Vietnamese street food so fresh, so experiential, *and* so festive.

Hue is internationally known as the former imperial capital of the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945), but within Vietnam, it’s also known as the nation’s gastronomic capital. For those who are dedicated to finding the very best food in the city and doing so in true Vietnamese fashion, the only way is on the back of a motorbike. The motorbike gives us the freedom to hit the best spots in the city for each dish. Enjoy as our drivers/ guides tell the stories of Hue’s many dishes, often folkloric and fiercely disputed, before hopping back on the bike to resume your voyage. Our guides/ drivers are all licensed and experienced motorcyclists, and keen enthusiasts of Hue cuisine. We will pick you up at your hotel and we will cross over to Hue Citadel and explore the historic streets and tree-lined avenues neighbouring the Imperial City, which aside from their beauty and cultural importance to the city also have some of the best food in the city.