Food tours in Hanoi and others

I very much enjoyed an afternoon spent with a young person from Hanoi Kids. It's a volunteer group (akin to Paris Greeters) that allows their students to practice English and help you to get oriented with a local. Our guide spoke excellent English and she was delightful. Though their tour offerings are different than when I was there, they do offer a food tour. I still dream about a noodle dish I ate while on our walk. https://hanoikids.org/

Thank you CL. That's a lovely idea.

I took a cooking class. I signed up a day or two in advance at the restaurant. There were 2 other women. First we went for a tour through a local market where the chef introduced us to unfamiliar veggies and answered questions. Then we went to her kitchen where we helped to prepared a full meal of typical Vietnamese dishes, which we then gorged on. I saw several restaurants that offered classes.

I took an excellent food tour in China (Xi’an) with Lost Plate. They also have tours in Hanoi:

https://lostplate.com/