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Food Allergies on a Saigon Walking Tour

Declare allergies before a street-food walk. Cross-contamination cannot be guaranteed away. This is not medical advice. The landmarks walk does not include tastings.

Planning · allergies

Planning article — not a booking page. To enquire about dates and availability, use the canonical tour page below.

Quick answer

Tell us the allergy when you enquire, preferably a day ahead. We cannot guarantee zero cross-contamination.

This is practical booking information, not medical advice. If a stall cannot confirm an ingredient, skip that dish.

Enquire on Saigon Street Food Walking Tour or Saigon City Highlights.

Where food is actually served

Only the Saigon Street Food Walking Tour includes tastings. Saigon City Highlights is landmarks and does not include food. An allergy note on the landmarks booking does not create a meal.

Shared tastings are five items chosen for that evening. Private includes about 3–4 mains, dessert, and one drink. Neither format is an allergen-free menu.

What to write

Name the allergy, the severity in your own words, and how many guests are affected. Ask for vegetarian only if that is also true. Halal and gluten-free are separate case-by-case requests.

A day of notice is more useful than a sentence at 5:25 PM. We still may not be able to make the walk safe for you. If the reply is uncertain, do not treat the walk as suitable.

What a street stall can and cannot do

Stalls are small workplaces. They may share pans, sauces, and oil. We do not publish a hygiene protocol and we do not certify kitchens. If a vendor cannot explain an ingredient, decline the dish.

The etiquette for asking is in street food etiquette. Do not demand that a cook remake food for a photograph or for a test.

This is not a medical page

We cannot tell you whether a food is safe for your condition. That decision stays with you and your clinician. Carrying your own medication is your plan, not a service we describe.

Enquire on the street-food page if you still want to ask about a date. This article does not confirm one.

Facts on this page come from the published Saigon walking-tour policies. Where a detail is still open — vendor payment, stall names, stairs, toilets — it is left unstated.