Big spender Anthony Bourdain treated President Obama to a $6 dinner-for-two at a tiny restaurant in Vietnam on Monday.
“Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer,” the “Parts Unknown” host tweeted, alongside a photo of the two talking over a table in Hanoi eatery Bún chả Hương Liên.
The snap showed the Leader of the Free World leaning in during their tete-a-tete.
Bourdain bragged about the cheap eats, adding, “Total cost of bun Cha dinner with the President: $6.00. I picked up the check. #Hanoi”
A spokeswoman for the CNN show said the pair chowed down on a bowl of pho, the traditional Vietnamese noodle soup served with sauces on the side, along with a plate of greens, two appetizers and a Hanoi brew for each of them.
The episode of the show won’t air until September, but Bourdain gave a taste to his Facebook fans — saying Obama’s chopstick skills were “on point.”
Obama has made a habit of making unconventional appearances on TV shows, including driving around with Jerry Seinfeld for an episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and learning survival tips from Bear Grylls during an Alaskan adventure for his NBC show.
The dinner date was a planned part of Obama’s historic week-long Asian trip — his 10th time visiting the region since he took office in 2008 — that includes stops in Vietnam and Japan.
He is set to visit to Hiroshima on Friday — making him the first American president to visit the city since the US dropped an atomic bomb there in 1945 at the end of World War II.
Earlier Monday, Obama announced the US was lifting its decades-old ban on selling military equipment to Vietnam.
“Just a generation ago, we were adversaries and now we are friends,” he said at a press conference in Hanoi.