Saigon Motorbike Street Food Tour

Overview

Saigon’s stature in Vietnam is one that attracts Vietnamese people from around the country, bringing local speciality food from their individual provinces as they do so. Ho Chi Minh City, a fast-emerging player on the world stage, has a history with food that runs very deep, with roots extending to every corner of southern Vietnam for the best seafood, meat, vegetables, fruits and the Vietnamese staples of rice and noodles available.

The Saigon Motorbike Street Food Tour takes you around the lesser-known areas of the bustling city on the back of a motorbike, the local mode of transport for the Saigon masses, to give you the authentic experience of searching for dinner, which is a mission performed daily by the millions of inhabitants of the city. We take you off the usual tourist trail around District 1 to the outlying districts where food has its most genuine origins. We head to Cholon, the Chinatown of Saigon, considered one of the largest in the world and one packed full of eateries providing a diverse flavour to Saigon’s food scene. Explore the offerings laid out at Binh Tay Market before we head back to your hotel in style.

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Places you’ll see

Ho Chi Minh City

Highlights

Diving into the world-renowned Vietnamese cuisine available in Saigon
Seeing how the locals eat, cook, work, and commute from the back of a motorbike around the buzzing streets
Learning of the history and food culture of Cholon, Saigon’s huge Chinatown and a vital part of the city’s emergence as an international city

Itinerary

Activities: Riding around Saigon on the back of a motorbike, experiencing local life before stopping at local places around downtown and Cholon in search of Saigon’s best eats.

Await pick-up at your hotel at 18.00 pm, when our guide will meet you and introduce you to the best of Saigon’s wonderful street food on the Saigon Motorbike Street Food Tour. We take a drive around downtown Saigon, experiencing the life of a local on a motorbike amidst the exhilarating buzz of the city. We begin by heading to hives of hidden street food joints, far off the usual tourist radar. We will cross the line between ancient and modern Saigon, sampling foods from both eras, as we taste how far the city has developed over the course of its long existence.

We cross from downtown to Cho Lon, Saigon’s thriving Chinatown. Here, we take a culinary tour of some of the food brought over and invented by the Chinese community, with all of the gastronomic options of another of the world’s food superpowers available to us. We can check out the street vendors or take a tour around Binh Tay Market, with its many humble stalls harbouring histories that reach back over one hundred years.

After exploring Cho Lon, we drive you back to your hotel and the Saigon Motorbike Street Food Tour will end. We would like to extend our gratitude for choosing this tour with us; we sincerely hope that you enjoyed your culinary experience and that you will consider us again in the future!

Meals: Dinner