A fun and easy way into Vietnamese cooking and rural life in Hoi An.
Your guide takes you to a local market, helps you talk with the vendors and shows you how to choose fresh ingredients. From there you head to the Tra Nhieu nipa palm forest for a bamboo basket boat ride along peaceful canals, with a go at crab fishing and a look at how local fishermen have always worked these waters.
Then it's into the kitchen of a local restaurant for a cooking class of about two hours. The chefs walk you step by step through five dishes – from Vietnamese pancakes to caramel banana – share their tips, and then you sit down to the meal you've made. The recipes go home with you.
- Choose fresh ingredients at a local Hoi An market with your guide
- Bamboo basket boat through the Tra Nhieu nipa palm forest
- Try crab fishing and learn traditional fishing methods
- A 2-hour cooking class of 5 Vietnamese dishes, then eat what you cook
- Take the recipes home
