Food festivals in Hanoi worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Hanoi worth planning a trip around, by month.
Tet in Hanoi is Vietnam's biggest food holiday, with banh chung sticky-rice cakes boiled overnight, mut tet candied fruits in every home and a week-long.
Focus: Banh chung, mut tet candied fruits, Tet feast
Tip: Lunar New Year 2026 falls February 17; the official holiday runs 14-22 Feb. Many street stalls close; book hotel-restaurants for dinner.
Tet Trung Thu in Hanoi turns Hang Ma into a lantern-and-mooncake corridor every autumn, with traditional toys, paper masks and pop-up mooncake stalls.
Focus: Mooncakes, lanterns, children's feast
Tip: Mid-Autumn 2026 falls September 25. Hang Ma street fills with lanterns and mooncake pop-ups; arrive after dusk for the lantern glow.
The Hanoi Beer Festival each November is HABECO's annual celebration at Quan Ngua Sports Palace, pouring Bia Hanoi, Truc Bach and the premium Hanoi Beer.
Focus: Bia Hanoi draft beer and Northern food stalls
Tip: Free entry; pay-per-pour. Live music both days; the Hanoi Premium tent serves the cleanest pours.
The Hanoi Craft Beer Festival each October gathers independent Vietnamese craft brewers in Furbrew's Tay Ho beer garden, with limited collaboration.
Focus: Independent Hanoi craft brewers and Vietnamese ingredient-led beers
Tip: Tickets via Furbrew Facebook; collaboration brews sell out by mid-Saturday.
Banh chung boiling night in Hanoi falls on Tet eve, with Old Quarter shophouses and outlying villages tending overnight pots of square sticky-rice cakes.
Focus: Banh chung sticky-rice cakes
Tip: Tran Vu Temple and Tran Quoc Pagoda host public banh chung boilings open to visitors. Tet eve 2026 falls 16 February.