Tips on choosing Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour: Food tour by motorbike in Saigon has become more popular thanks to exotic specialty dishes, the interesting experience of cruising Saigon streets, reaching secret corners in far districts, and seeing the real local life. However, it is not easy to choose an appropriate for your group. We would like to share with you the Must things to know before booking a Ho Chi Minh food tour by motorbike as follows.
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Tips on choosing Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour
Who is your driver on Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour?
Female riders are provided by a few tour companies, they usually wear beautiful Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai long dress uniforms. Some customers prefer beautiful, tender, careful female riders or beautiful Vietnamese Ao Dai, so they would like to book Ao Dai food motorbike tour. Prices of Ao Dai food tours are usually higher than prices of the tours on which drivers and guides can be male or female.
Some guests would like to be driven by male tour guides because they suppose men are strong and always good at driving.
Many guests would like to go with English-speaking drivers while others do not care about that. It is more comfortable and easier if your driver can speak English fluently and you can communicate with him/her on the way.
If you can make choices, just let the motorbike tour company know about your expectations: male or female, an English-speaking driver,…
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Who is your guide on Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour?
On some Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tours, tour guides are also drivers. On the other, drivers are not tour guides, there are one or more tour guides on the trips. If you are driven by a tour guide, he/she will take care of you better. For example, the tour guide usually asks and makes sure that the pillion feels comfortable on the back of the motorbike. She/he can also provide lots of interesting information about the things on the streets. And the tour guide tells you so much about the local dishes at the eating places. It is better to check if your driver is a tour guide before booking a motorbike food tour in Vietnam.
In order to reduce the price of a food motorbike tour, a local student can work as a part-time tour guide. Students are energetic and passionate but they do not have enough experience, have not graduated yet, and their English may be good or not. It is your choice to choose a food tour by motorbike with local student.
As mentioned above, you can book an Ao Dai food tour by motorbike if you would like to do the tour with a nice girl in Vietnamese traditional dress. It is a great chance to weave Saigon street, eat amazing local dishes, and take nice photos with your beautiful tour guide.
Lovely girls in Ao Dai work as tour guides on motorbike food tour
Which food to eat and drink to enjoy on Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour?
Ho Chi Minh City offers hundreds of exotic specialty dishes originating from Saigon and other regions. You can find tens of choices provided by different tour companies. Here are the list of must-eat local dishes in Saigon:
- Vietnamese pancake – Banh xeo
- Vietnamese mini pancake – Banh khot
- Grilled pork rice noodle salad – Bun thit nuong
- Beef noodle soup – Bun bo
- Stewed beef in Vietnamese style
- Grilled beef in betel leaf
- Broken rice – Com tam
- Seafood dishes at snail restaurant
- Ice cream in coconut, Avocado ice cream
- Grilled banana in sticky rice
- Coffee
- Sugarcane juice
Tourists love to eat Vietnamese pancake which is wrapped in leaves of lettuce with herbs and dipped fish sauce
Private or group tour?
Private Saigon food tour by motorbike
- Plus: personal and flexible tour program, start time, high quality, best care, can change the menu to meet your expectation, great choice for people having food restrictions or allergies, the elderly, families with kids, guests on honeymoon
- Minus: higher price, no chance to make new friends
Private Saigon food tour by motorbike
- Plus: reasonable price, chance to make new friends, more fun (according to some guests)
- Minus: can’t change start time, can’t tour route, can’t stop at a place as long as you would like
Vespa or motorbike tour?
Vespa
- Plus: vintage Vespa, nice photo, driver is not tour guide and speaks limited English
- Minus: higher price
Motorbike
- Plus: reasonable price, tour guide is also driver
- Minus: too normal and not unique (according to some guests),
When is the best time to do Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour?
In fact, you can choose to do a Ho Chi Minh City food motorbike tour at any time of the year. However, you can not enjoy the journey at its best on a rainy day because the streets are wet, flooding occurs, or you must wear a raincoat. It is best to join a Saigon food tour by motorbike in the dry season from December to March. If you must do the tour in the wet season, you should choose to start in the morning when it seldom rains.
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