TOUR ITINERARY:
– Morning class: 9am – 1pm
– Afternoon class: 4pm – 7pm

– Pick up at your hotel and your choice to visit to a local market with the chef. Stroll around to visit distinct food sections with their variety of herbs, vegetables, meat and sea food which brings you very close to the simple life. It is very interesting to see and to learn how a local woman chooses and buys the best quality of the fresh food from numerous food stalls in the market.
– Under our chef’s instruction, you might buy some ingredients for our cooking lesson – some herbs and spices (Herbs and spices are a very important part of authentic Vietnamese food)
– Go to the restaurant, enjoy a drink while listening to our chef briefing about the cooking class. Ready to make it your own, go ahead!
COOKING DEMONSTRATION:
– you will prepare and cook by yourself under the instruction of the chef from the beginning to the end, learning how to marinate and to spice will be the most crucial lesson. You will also enjoy decorating dishes with carrot flowers, lemon grass stems, banana leaves and curved chili.
– The authentic magical sauce mixed from fish sauce, water, sugar, lime, chili, garlic and herbs is very easy to make.
– Then have your meal with what-you-have-cooked dishes (big portion). The chef will taste and give a reward to the best dish. A little gift and all of the recipes from our Hanoi cooking class will be given to you as you leave.

Option 1:
Nem Ran (Hanoi spring rolls)
Cha Ca Hanoi (Grilled fish Hanoi style)
Com Nau Tom (Rice cooked with shrimp)
Che (Sweet potato with ginger pudding, a kind of dessert)

Option 2:
Nem Cuon Tom Thit (Fresh spring rolls with shrimp and meat)
Ga Nuong la Chanh (Grilled chicken on skewers with lemon leaf)
Ca boc la sen hap (Steamed fish wrapped in lotus leaf with tamarind juice)
Che long Nhan (Dry longan pudding)