Top Vietnam Cooking Classes - page 2

This workshop is led by true coffee experts: • A certified trainer who has coached head baristas at 5-star hotels and restaurants. • The founder of Sử Quán Roastery, dedicated to preserving the untold stories of Vietnamese coffee. • A passionate coffee enthusiast who loves sharing the beauty and diversity of Vietnam’s brews. Hosted inside an Indochine-style villa tucked away in a quiet hidden alley, this experience blends culture, craft, and connection. What you’ll experience: • Discover lesser-known stories behind Vietnam’s coffee heritage. • Enjoy a fully hands-on session and learn to brew 6 iconic Vietnamese coffees. A gentle part of this workshop also supports children’s education at our Da Lat coffee farm, where families have cared for their land for generations. NOTE: We’ll be enjoying a lot of coffee, so it’s best to have a light meal beforehand!

Our restaurant has been an institution since 2004, with locations in Cat Ba, Hanoi and Hoian. Head Chef Hai Nguyen is renowned throughout Vietnam for his creative and modern approach to traditional dishes. At our cooking school, students learn from the best; not just traditional recipes, but also tips and tricks for preparing food in your home kitchen. All of this in our heritage-listed building in the heart of the ancient town!

Delve into Hanoi's vibrant coffee scene with an immersive coffee workshop. Learn about Vietnam's rich coffee history and unique brewing techniques. Discover how to brew authentic Vietnamese coffee from professionals and learn how to discern between a perfectly brewed cup and an ordinary one.

On this small-group tour, spend half a day exploring the countryside near Hoi An on bicycles and learning traditional farming and cooking methods. Hop on your bike and ride out to Tra Que vegetable village, where a local will teach you traditional farming methods. Then, head to a fishing village for a ride in a bamboo basket boat with locals. Finish your tour by harvesting coconuts and preparing traditional Hoi An-style food.

No trip to Vietnam would be complete without experiencing the nation's cuisine. This short cooking class, tailored to beginners, introduces you to the specialties of the country's three regions (north, south, and central), as well as spectacular fruit carving techniques. Morning courses include a visit to Ben Thanh Market, while afternoon and evening courses omit the market tour.

Enhance your culinary skills during a private Vietnamese cooking class that not only teaches you to make classic dishes using fresh ingredients, but also includes coffee tasting and a visit to a market, vegetable garden, and noodle factory. Plus, this private tour ensures that you’ll enjoy undivided attention from your cooking instructor.

Distill your very own bottle of gin. Select your botanicals and create your unique recipe and personalize your bottle under the guidance of of our experienced staff. Step inside the District 9 Distillery and experience firsthand how Saigon Baigur — Southeast Asia’s largest premium gin brand — is crafted. Wander through the working distillery, see your stills in action, and discover the rare botanicals that define the signature Vietnamese spice-forward profile. Then, take a seat at Vietnam’s only Gin School. Under the guidance of our distillers, you’ll create your very own gin from scratch. Learn the secrets of Vietnamese botanicals, the science of distillation, and enjoy a refreshing gin cocktail as you work. Your experience concludes in the tropical distillery garden with a final handcrafted cocktail at the bar — the perfect toast to your gin-making journey.

Indulge your love of Vietnamese cuisine with this authentic cooking class in Hanoi. After a convenient hotel pickup, select the dishes you’d like to prepare and head to a local market with an experienced instructor. Learn about Vietnamese food while choosing the ingredients for your meal, then get cooking at a nearby villa. Enjoy complimentary beer, wine, and other drinks, and feast on dishes like green papaya salad, phở, and fresh spring rolls.

Immerse yourself in Vietnamese culture during a cooking class that begins with shopping for fresh ingredients in an authentic market and ends with tasting your creations. Unlike classes that only include the step-by-step processes for making a certain dish, this class brings together all the colorful aspects of Vietnamese food, for a complete experience designed for everyone from culture enthusiasts to chefs.

Under the guidance of our skilled barista, guests will learn the meticulous steps of steeping and brewing the perfect cup using traditional drip methods. With a focus on technique and presentation, guests will acquire skills to create beautifully layered and visually enticing cups as delightful to look at as they are to savor. Delve into the delicate and harmonious balance of Viet coffee's bitter and sweet notes. Discover the bold flavors of Viet coffee as they unfold on your palate. You’ll thoroughly enjoy the interplay of textures, temperatures, and flavors. Join us as we blend tradition, technique, and taste in a celebration of the captivating world of Vietnamese coffee culture! Special gifts will be handed out to all participants!

Sitting at a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City, you’ll be enveloped by the city's vibrant energy—the aroma of rich Vietnamese coffee mingling with the scent of street food, motorbikes whizzing by, locals and tourists chatting animatedly. The blend of tradition and modernity creates a unique, dynamic atmosphere that’s utterly captivating, especially with a local guide showing you the scene.

Experience the flavors of Hue in this small-group Vietnamese cooking class and market visit. Your day will start with a trip to a local food market where you’ll learn about daily life in Hue and traditional ingredients. You’ll then head back to the kitchen for a cooking class with a local chef, where you’ll learn how to make several different dishes, before sitting down and enjoying your meal together.

If you’re obsessed with Vietnamese coffee and want to learn how to make it at home, this workshop in Ho Chi Minh teaches you how to create three different drinks. Discover what makes Vietnamese coffee distinct as you practice making two traditional coffee drinks and one more experimental option that involves yogurt.

This is the real street-food tour of Saigon. You’ll strap on your helmet and hit the streets by motorbike, just like the locals do, scouting the city for truly fresh flavor. Stopping in some of the city’s most diverse districts, you’ll sit down to banh mi, bun bo, banh xeo, Vietnamese barbecue, and more. Those words might not mean much now, but your tastebuds will absolutely remember them.

Instead of eating in a restaurant and doing cooking in big cooking center , why not escape the tourist areas and come to where the locals live? Here you can see first-hand how everyday Hanoians live. Duyen lives just a few kilometres away from the city centre, near the famous Long Bien Bridge.Then, the thing that makes this extra special, is Chef Duyen invites you to her home which is not so far from a famous Long Biên bridge & the local market . It is here you will get to experience a very homely ‘hands on’ cooking class facilitated by Chef Duyen. You will learnhow to make some of these local delicacies. You will find out more about Vietnamese cuisine and experience the flavours and tastes all the foods after chef duyen show you how to you did in the class and enjoy with beer for yourself in the comfortable home of local Hanoian, Chef Duyen offers a range of activities for you: ‍ Home Cooking Class & Market Tour ‍Wholesale Market & Street Food

Visit two major attractions of southern Vietnam—one historical, one natural, both cultural—on this full-day VIP tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels and the Mekong Delta. Travel in style and comfort from Ho Chi Minh City in a sleek limo to make the journey as fabulous as the destination. Explore the tunnel system and learn about its role as a hospital, living quarters, storage, and more during wartime, and then cruise through the canals of the delta on a motorboat and rowboat to visit a village.

Don’t just gaze at the sparkling waters off Phu Quoc’s white-sand beaches—sail and snorkel off the coast, too. With this small-group, full-day excursion, you’ll head far from the tourist crowds and island hop to secluded coves and inlets, stopping to snorkel the area’s best reefs. You’ll recharge over a fresh Vietnamese lunch on most days before speeding off for more adventures.

Whether you love cocktails or are simply looking for a unique evening activity, this experience will take you to some of the best hidden bars and spaces in Ho Chi Minh City. At each stop on the tour, you’ll be offered a secret signature cocktail. The drinks were developed by some of Vietnam’s top mixologists with ingredients from local producers.

Immerse yourself in Vietnamese culture with this cooking class in Da Nang. First, you’ll tour a busy local market and browse the fruits and vegetables. Then, prepare authentic dishes like deep-fried spring rolls, papaya salad, and fish soup. (The menu may change based on the season.) Plus, visit an organic vegetable garden.

Immerse yourself in Vietnamese cuisine in this small-group cooking class in Hanoi. Start with a visit to the largest market in the city, where you will get to sample local dishes, purchase fresh ingredients and see a glimpse of the daily life of locals. Learn how to make three authentic Vietnamese dishes, which can you savor afterwards with tea and coffee.

If you enjoy eating Vietnamese food, take your knowledge up a few notches with a small-group cooking class in Da Nang. Learn about the ingredients and techniques used in Vietnamese cuisine from your local host. The class is based in their home, rather than a commercial kitchen, for an intimate and personalized experience. Sample menus include pho noodle soup, rice pancakes, green papaya salad, and more.

Enjoy an immersive experience in Vietnamese cuisine on this morning or afternoon cookery class from Hoi An. Following a pickup at your Hoi An accommodation, head to the markets to collect your fresh ingredients. Escape to the countryside to try your hand at fishing the traditional Vietnamese way, then roll up your sleeves for a cookery class with a local chef—and prepare speciality dishes popular in Vietnamese cookery.

Learn the art of Vietnamese cuisine direct from a local cook-instructor rather than written recipes with this cooking class in Saigon. Scour a food market to bargain for fresh ingredients, and then head to a local restaurant to prep and cook assorted dishes with your instructor to show you how. Finally, savor your creations and other dishes over a meal. Return hotel transfers and a choice of time slots included.

So much vegan and even vegetarian cooking today centers around weird meat substitutes. Learn how to incorporate more vegetables into your life using Asian flavors and cooking techniques on this fascinating cooking course, complete with a shopping tour of Ben Thanh Market and, of course, lunch. You'll bring home the ultimate souvenir from your stay in Ho Chi Minh City: the gift of Vietnamese food.