Tết Trung Thu Mid-Autumn Festival is a food festival in Old Quarter, Hanoi.
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.
Tip: Mid-Autumn 2026 falls September 25. Hang Ma street fills with lanterns and mooncake pop-ups; arrive after dusk for the lantern glow.
Address: Hang Ma street, Dong Xuan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
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.
Tip: Tran Vu Temple and Tran Quoc Pagoda host public banh chung boilings open to visitors. Tet eve 2026 falls 16 February.
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.
Tip: Lunar New Year 2026 falls February 17; the official holiday runs 14-22 Feb. Many street stalls close; book hotel-restaurants for dinner.
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.
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.
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.
Tip: Tran Vu Temple and Tran Quoc Pagoda host public banh chung boilings open to visitors. Tet eve 2026 falls 16 February.
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.
Tip: Lunar New Year 2026 falls February 17; the official holiday runs 14-22 Feb. Many street stalls close; book hotel-restaurants for dinner.
