The Tour
Hoi An’s signature dishes, all of them plant-based.
Hoi An is a town built on trade, and its food shows it. This evening walk takes the dishes the town is famous for and does them without animal products, which turns out to be far easier here than most visitors expect. You meet your guide outside the old Post Office on Tran Hung Dao Street and start at a banh mi bakery before heading into the market.
From there it is the little lanes: seasonal fruit, traditional cakes and sweets, vegan white rose dumplings, a crisp banh xeo pancake and a plant-based cao lau, the noodle dish that belongs to this town and nowhere else. Between stops your guide fills in the stories, how generations of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese trade shaped what ends up on the plate. It finishes over tea, with a list of other places to try during your stay.
