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On requestSoutheast Asia

Vietnamese & Asian Food Image Dataset

Street food, home cooking and restaurant dishes from Vietnam, photographed as people actually eat them, not as food stylists plate them.

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On request: this dataset is collected to your specification after you order. Typically 2–3 weeks for 1,000 images.

Pricing

Fixed prices for standard bundles, collected to your spec. Pick a package and a license to see the exact total, or ask for a custom quote.

Bundle packages compared
FeatureStarterProCustom
Images5002,000Any quantity
Metadata and topic labels✓Included✓Included✓Included
Human-written captions–Not included✓IncludedOptional
Boxes, masks, transcriptions–Not included–Not includedOptional
Datasheet, license, checksums✓Included✓Included✓Included
Research license$490$0.98 / image$1,490$0.75 / imageQuote
Commercial license$1,250$2.50 / image$3,900$1.95 / imageQuote
Exclusive license$4,900$9.80 / image$14,900$7.45 / imageQuote

How ordering works

  1. 1Choose a package and license, then pay a 50% deposit at checkout.
  2. 2Within 48 hours we confirm the spec and send 10–20 sample photos before full collection.
  3. 3We collect and deliver in parts so you can review early. Typically 2–3 weeks for 1,000 images.
  4. 4Pay the balance and download the final bundle.

Custom quote

Need another quantity, an Enterprise license or annotations for this topic? Available here:

  • Dish labels
  • Human-written captions
  • Bounding boxes per dish
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Overview

Popular food datasets lean heavily on Western dishes and polished photos. Models trained on them confuse phở with ramen, struggle with shared dishes and fail under the harsh lighting of a street-food stall.

This dataset covers Vietnamese and wider Asian dishes as they are really served: on plastic tables, in takeaway boxes, half-eaten, under fluorescent tubes and at night markets, each labeled by people who know the food.

Sample photos

Real photos from this topic, shown at reduced resolution. Full-resolution samples are emailed on request.

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Technical specifications

Capture device
Modern smartphones (device model recorded per image in EXIF)
File format
JPEG (original HEIC/RAW on request)
Resolution
Native sensor resolution, typically 12 MP or higher
Settings
Street stalls, markets, restaurants, home kitchens, takeaway
Labels
Dish name (Vietnamese and English), cuisine, setting
Metadata
metadata.jsonl with device, exposure, timestamp, dimensions, topic labels
Privacy processing
Faces and license plates blurred, GPS removed
License
Research, Commercial, Enterprise or Exclusive

Use cases

  • Food recognition

    Fine-tune classifiers and detectors to recognise Vietnamese and Asian dishes accurately.

  • Nutrition & calorie tracking

    Improve food logging apps for users in Asia and for Asian cuisine worldwide.

  • Recipe & restaurant search

    Power visual search and menu-understanding features.

  • VLM captioning

    Human-written captions describe dishes, ingredients and context for vision-language training.

How this data is collected

  1. 1Captured on a smartphone by a person
  2. 2Duplicates and near-duplicates removed
  3. 3Blurry and broken images filtered out
  4. 4Faces and license plates detected and blurred
  5. 5Every image reviewed by a person
  6. 6GPS stripped; device EXIF kept
  7. 7Labels, captions and metadata.jsonl generated
  8. 8Datasheet and license packaged with the delivery
Read our full process →

Provenance & legal

  • 100% captured by people: no scraping, no generative AI
  • Datasheet documenting collection, processing and limitations
  • Commercial license that lets you keep models trained on the data
  • Supports training-data documentation under the EU AI Act
Licensing options →

Topic-specific notes

  • • Vendors and diners are not the subject of photos; any faces in frame are blurred.
  • • Photos in restaurants are taken with permission where required.
  • • Dish labels are written by native speakers familiar with the cuisine.

Example metadata record

One line of metadata.jsonl per image. Fields vary with the annotation options you choose; values shown are illustrative.

{
  "id": "fd-000921",
  "file": "images/fd-000921.jpg",
  "topic": "food",
  "dish_vi": "Bánh mì thịt",
  "dish_en": "Vietnamese pork baguette",
  "setting": "street-stall",
  "device": {
    "make": "Apple",
    "model": "iPhone 14"
  },
  "width": 4032,
  "height": 3024,
  "caption_en": "A bánh mì wrapped in paper on a small plastic stool, filled with pork, pickled carrot and herbs.",
  "privacy": {
    "faces_blurred": 0,
    "gps_removed": true
  }
}

Each delivery contains:

vietnamese-asian-food-v1/
├── images/
├── metadata.jsonl
├── DATASHEET.md
├── LICENSE.pdf
└── checksums.sha256

Frequently asked questions

How many dish classes can you cover?

We can work from your class list or propose one. Tell us the dishes and images per class you need.

Are the photos professionally styled?

No, and that is the point. Photos reflect how people really photograph food: real tables, real light, real portions.

How does payment work for a bundle?

You pay a 50% deposit at checkout and the balance when we deliver the final bundle. Free sample photos are available above before you order, and the deposit is refunded in full if we cannot deliver the agreed spec.

Why is a bundle so much cheaper per image than a single image?

A bundle is planned and collected as one job, so capture, review and privacy processing cost far less per photo. Single images are priced for buyers who need just a few specific photos.

What is the difference between non-exclusive and Exclusive?

With Research or Commercial we may license the photos collected for your order to other buyers later. With Exclusive they are never licensed to anyone else or added to our catalog.

Can I order a different quantity or extra annotations?

Yes. Request a custom quote with the quantity, annotations and deadline you need. Prices per image fall as quantity grows.

Need a variation?

Different angles, lighting, locations, quantity or labels? Describe it and we reply within 48 hours with matching samples and a quote.

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