When you travel in Vietnam and get tired of having too much of typical, ordinary local cuisine like Pho, Nem Ran, Banh Mi or Bun Cha, you can find a way to try an interesting, unique meal, and by no means “touristic”, a way to the snake village. Le Mat village located about 10km from Hanoi Old Quarter and is famous for snake cuisine. If you want to try TEN different dishes made from snake meat marinated with Vietnamese herbs and spices and visit the snake farm, then Le Mat is the perfect destination for your tour.

Le Mat is 10 km from Ha Noi City centre, in the east of Hanoi, take a car or motorbike to cross the Long Bien Bridge or Chuong Duong Bridge to Viet Hung ward, Le Mat Snake Village Long Bien District you can enjoy the special food in Hanoi.

When it comes to Vietnamese cuisines, most of people think of Pho (beef noodle soup), Nem (spring rolls) or Banh Mi (sandwiches). Those are undeniably our typical food; but also we have a lot of other cuisines to try, some thing special, something rather extreme and interesting, which is snake. Snake meat has a distinctive, unique flavour with a slight chewy texture will ensure to give a new experience for your appetite. With just the snake meat, our well trained, professional and seasoned chefs (no pun intended) will offer you 10 dishes, including snake spring rolls, stir fried snake with veggies, snake soup, snake porridge, deep fried snake skin, grilled snake and so on.

But then of course, snake food tour is a unique tour, which comes with a unique way of enjoying it. If you think you’re adventurous when it comes to food and drinks, we will offer the snake’s heart, preferably consumed fresh and uncooked, with a shot of snake wine (Vietnamese rice wine mixed with snake blood, stirred with lemongrass to ensure a strong flavour).

The tour will last about 3 (three) hours. After trying out all of those dishes, you may enter the snake farm to have a better look of how the snakes a raised, fed, trained by local experts, also you can witness some of the largest bottle of King Cobra snake wine in Vietnam.