World | President Obama Obama Has $6 Dinner With Anthony Bourdain The president has soup and a beer in Vietnam restaurant By Neal Colgrass Posted May 23, 2016 1:49 PM CDT Copied President Barack Obama greets women at the door as he walks from the B?n ch? Huong Li?n restaurant after having dinner with American Chef Anthony Bourdain, Monday, May 23, 2016, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) See 1 more photo President Obama chowed down with Anthony Bourdain in a Vietnam restaurant on Monday and let the CNN personality pick up the check—which was only $6, Eater reports. Twitter photos have emerged of Obama walking into Bún cha Huong Liên restaurant, chatting with the Parts Unknown host (while showing decent chopstick skills), and walking out in seemingly good spirits after a little more than an hour. No reports yet on their conversation, though CNN says the two were expected to explore Obama's curiosity about Vietnamese culture, TPM reports. CNN plans to air the chat in September during the eighth season of Parts Unknown. (Obama plans to visit Hiroshima on his Asia trip and announced earlier Monday that America's Vietnam arms embargo is over.) Read These Next Formal dining rooms may soon be a thing of the past. She wanted her widowed dad to find love. Just not with this woman. Luddites will rejoice at this return to analog. Tim Walz just abandoned his run for governor. See 1 more photo Report an error