Common situations where people choose to tip:
🍽️ Restaurant staff (especially exceptional service)
🚌 Tour guides
🚗 Drivers
🏨 Hotel staff
💈 Barbers and spa staff
🛵 Delivery drivers
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🇻🇳 Vietnam Dining Field Guide
Congratulations, brave traveler! By opening this guide, you have officially embarked upon one of Southeast Asia's greatest adventures: eating your way through Vietnam.
Forget quietly waiting for a waiter to notice you. Forget everyone ordering their own meal. Forget the floor being sacred.
In Vietnam, meals are social events. Food is shared. Beer is communal. The table somehow becomes covered with enough dishes to feed a small village — and yet, mysteriously, everything disappears.
Welcome to the table. Let's eat. 🍜
Forget quietly waiting for a waiter to notice you. Forget everyone ordering their own meal. Forget the floor being sacred.
In Vietnam, meals are social events. Food is shared. Beer is communal. The table somehow becomes covered with enough dishes to feed a small village — and yet, mysteriously, everything disappears.
Welcome to the table. Let's eat. 🍜
✅ The Golden Rules
✅ Be loud — don't be shy calling staff
✅ Share food — order more than you think you need
✅ Try everything once
✅ Call staff with "Em ơi!"
✅ Accept the ice bucket — it's part of the deal
✅ Follow what locals do
✅ Don't rush — meals are social events
✅ If locals invite you to drink, you've won Vietnam 🏆
What's on the menu?
Type a dish or tap an example.
Switch to Menu Scan to photograph a menu.
Switch to Menu Scan to photograph a menu.
⚠️ Dietary Alerts
Select restrictions to show your waiter
Select restrictions above to generate your Vietnamese alert card.
📸 Tips for best results
• Point your camera at menu items with prices only
• Crop your photo to show only food items — remove headers and decorations
• Works great with GrabFood — screenshot your order, crop it, upload it and watch the magic happen 🍜
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