This Morning Saigon Street Food Tour begins around sunrise when the air is fresh. Our guide of this Saigon motorbike tour will pick you up at your hotel to see the city waking up. Street sweepers are doing their calm work on the street, street food vendors are preparing everything to serve breakfast to their customers, motorbike taxi drivers are waiting for first customer. If you haven’t had breakfast at the hotel yet, we will grab something to fill your empty stomach.
Firstly we will take you a green local park where you entertain yourself like locals by listening to beautiful bird song while sipping famous Saigon coffee. We will walk through one of the oldest park in the city with over 1000 lush green trees and see locals play badminton, engage tai chi, practice belly dance…
Then we will weave the main roads in rush hour. It’s time to see the crazy traffic of the city with a vast of motorbike on the streets. People are in a hurry to reach their work places and universities. Have you ever driven a motorbike to get to work like this? It’s worth a try.
We will continue Saigon motorbike tour with a troll to a local wet market where you will see how locals sell and buy products and interact with friendly Saigon people. You are free to ask about any strange thing there. Our guide will help if you would like to buy something to bring home. You also have chance to eat at the market like locals. You will get to sample delicious street foods including main dishes, desserts, drinks…. The guides are pleased to help you to choose the dishes you would like to eat. They will tell you about food’s story, history, ingredients, how to cook and how to eat the dishes in the right way. We will collect some fresh seasonal fruits and you will have chance to bargain like locals.
Afterwards, we will drive you to the biggest flower market in Saigon where each flower shop is in front of individual homes and the alleyways are narrow, just wide enough for motorbikes to pass through. No car would fit!
On the way we will drive you through back alleys in Saigon, including unique alleys such as graffiti and celeb alleys. You will have chance to see how major of Saigon people live in narrow houses in these alleys. Everybody do everything in a yard or general space in front of the houses. There are really many things more to see in Saigon alleys which you should not miss. In addition we also show you some special streets in Saigon such as paintings street, old books street, fashion street…
At the end of this Saigon motorbike tour, the guide will drive you back the hotel. It’s time to say goodbye.
When to Go
We recommend that we start at 7:00am to catch the first rays of sun. The tour will end at 11:00am. The time to start is FLEXIBLE for your choice because our tour is private.
If you could not arrange the time to enjoy our tour in the morning but in the afternoon. Nothing is impossible because we also offer the tour in the afternoon. The minus is that you could not gain the sense of Saigon morning (including the bird song).
Sample menu:
Street food is the highlight of the tour. Saigon is a paradise of street foods and we’re food’s lover. It would be a big miss if you come to Ho Chi Minh city only to see some attractions such as Ben Thanh market, Notre Dame Cathedral, China Town… There are hundreds of exotic street foods on Saigon streets such as snacks,noodle soups, barbecue, sweet soup and desserts…
Some guests may be afraid of eating street food in Vietnam but that’s the reason why you book a Saigon food tour to enjoy safe foods. In addition, no one know where to eat the best food better than locals. We won’t take you to food stalls or restaurants in the center of the city, which only serve tourists but drive you to the most popular eating places where Saigon people love to eat.
Mother Nature gives us many fruits which are delicious and healthy which many foreigner may not have seen and tasted before. It’s a big chance for you to touch, smell, choose and buy many kinds of local fresh fruits yourself at the biggest fruit market in Ho Chi Minh city. What’s next? Just enjoy them with us.
- Traditional Vietnamese Foods;
- Favorite Snacks;
- Saigon Specialties;
- Amazing Desserts;
- Refreshing Drinks;
- Fresh Fruits.
We will eat at different places to experience the city life at its best. The foods, drinks and eateries have been researched carefully to be safe for you to eat.
The menu is FLEXIBLE because this Saigon motorbike tour is private. If you have any special request, please do not hesitate to tell us when you book the tour or email us at support@scootersaigontour.com. In case it is last minute booking, you can call us or discuss with our guides at the tour. The dishes and portions will be ordered until you feel enough. No guest leaves the tour feeling hungry.
Please call/SMS/Viber/Whatsapp us at +84909190247 for more information about program and menu. Do not hesitate to let us know you are vegetarian or allergic to something and your taste so that we can arrange the foods meeting your expectation.
