Experience Hanoi Cooking Class Tour – Half Day

Hanoi annually welcomes a huge volume of tourists visiting here not only with its centuries-old architecture but also its special culinary offerings in Vietnamese cuisine. Besides exploring every tourist destination in the capital, participating in a cooking class seems to be the best thing to learn about valuable fresh ingredients as well as Vietnamese gastronomy.

General Information

We design the tour to deliver you the authentic experience in S-Shape country – Vietnam through a cooking class. We believe that cuisine is an interesting way to learn about any culture and Vietnam is not an exception. Hanoi Local Tour offers you a special menu featuring specialty dishes of Hanoi that every Hanoi living far from their hometown always thinks about.

Tour Highlights

• Discover the heart of Vietnamese gastronomy by participating in a cooking class and exploring a local market.
• Engage in hands-on cooking under the guidance of a local chef.
• Dive into the bustling atmosphere of a suburban market, witnessing locals shopping for fresh produce and experiencing authentic daily life.
• Select and purchase fresh herbs, vegetables, meats, and seafood from local vendors.
• Create and enjoy your own meal, decorated with traditional touches, reflecting Hanoi’s culinary traditions.

Experience Your Tour With

• Guides: Hand-picked from our best guides, mature, knowledgeable, all are licensed, great sense of humor
• Drivers: Friendly, responsible, reliable with many years of driving experience, door-to-door services
• Vehicles: Comfortable, spacious, air-conditioned, big windows

Tour Itinerary

Duration: Half Day
Departure Date: Any Time You Wish
Start/ End: Hanoi/ Hanoi

Full Itinerary

There have 2 classes to follow: morning cooking class (from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm) and cooking class in the afternoon (from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm). Hereunder is the detailed itinerary:

At 8:00 am or 3:00 pm: Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to the cooking class. You’re welcome in the class and then we go to a local market with the chef by bike. Strolling around a wet suburban market which still original to visit local people and the distinct food sections with a variety of fresh herbs, vegetables, meat, and also fresh seafood, which brings you to be closer to the simple life. Our local will show you some common Vietnamese phrases to purchase goods.
What’s an amazing experience when seeing how a local woman chooses and buys the fresh food from numerous food stalls, and of course you can try to buy or bargain.

Under the chef’s instruction and some tips from the guide, you might buy some ingredients for the cooking class, they are herbs and spices (the important part of authentic Vietnamese food).
At 10:00 am or 5:00 pm: Finish your shopping time, we get back to the class to prepare and cook under the instruction of the local chef and your guide. Besides cooking, you will enjoy time decorating dishes with carrot, banana leaves, and curved chili.

At 12:00 pm or 7:00 pm: Savor your meal that cooked by yourselves in the Cooking class.

At 1:00 pm or 8:00 pm: our tour guide will drop you off at your hotel and give you the recipe if you want. Your Hanoi day trip ends.

The menu of Cooking Class for Reference:

Option 1:

• Steamed cabbage and meat rolls
• Hanoi pork caramel with quail egg
• Pumpkin soup with pork ribs
• Vietnamese deep-fried banana pancake

Option 2:

• Fresh lettuce roll with winter sauce
• Boneless pork leg wrap with vegetable
• Slow-cooked beef tendon with radish greens pickle
• Fragrant steam rice