Our food was included in the tour package. It wasn't bad, but it was repetitive. For breakfast, we had a buffet with Western and Oriental food at the hotel, which was very good. For lunch, we were herded to some government approved restaurant, usually located at the back of a large souvenir store with a gauntlet of pushy sales girls waiting for you to return well fed, and hopefully, a little drunk on the beer that was served. Dinners were about the same as lunch, a nicer restaurant, usually, and without the shopping obstacle course. We'd be seated around tables with 8 to 10 people, a lazy susan in the center, and the wait staff would bring out dishes of rice, meats, fish, vegetables, soup, (and a few items that were difficult to identify), and watermelon for dessert. We had a few specialty dinners, but most of our meals consisted of the same dishes, time and again.