This Ho Chi Minh food experience with cooking class and market tour will give you an insight of the colourful Vietnamese cuisine. Visit Ben Thanh market where you’ll wander stalls with your local chef and learn about the fresh essential ingredients to create the most popular Vietnamese dishes. Under the chef guidance, you will prepare a 4-course meal and come home with an unforgettable memory.
Highlights:
- • Half-day market tour and cooking class in Ho Chi Minh City
- • Learn about different types of herbs and spices
- • Create delicious Saigonese dishes, including appetizer, salad or soup, main course and dessert with an expert local chef
- • Learn about Vietnamese culture and its culinary heritage
Itinerary
- • 8:15 pickup from your hotel in city centre.
- • Follow your local guide through the famous Ben Thanh Market, where you’ll wander past eclectic stalls filled with clothing, food halls, exotic fruits and lots of other decorations.
- • Then walk to the wet market to learn about the fresh ingredients and aromatic herbs essential.
- • Leave the market to go to the cooking class. You’ll have access to traditional equipment and fresh ingredients. With the guidance from the chef, learn how to prepare papaya salad, chicken curry and coconut-centric dishes.
- • At Vietnam Cookery Center, a new 4-course meal is prepared every day of the week so no two classes are ever alike.
- • Return to your hotel with a new understanding of Vietnamese culture and cuisine.