Hanoi Food Tour: Explore Hanoi’s Best Markets with A Chef’s Tour

I love visiting wet markets when we travel. Which is a bit odd because you’d never catch me dead in one at home.

I guess markets just feel a little different when you’re away. The produce is different, people are speaking in an unfamiliar tongue, transactions are made using a foreign currency; wet markets are pretty much the same in every city but it’s these little difference that make them so interesting.

Most of the time, we visit wet markets during the day but thanks to A Chef’s Tour, I got to experience one of Hanoi’s biggest markets at the crack of dawn, when it’s at its liveliest. The difference in market activity between 5AM and 11AM is literally like night and day.

If you have a serious passion for food and/or street photography – enough to get you out of bed at 4AM even…