Hoi An Cooking Class with Local Market Tour

Taste the local life around Hoi An with an English-speaking chef, countryside activities, and a hands-on Vietnamese cooking class.

Getting started

Begin with round-trip transfers from your Hoi An hotel or Hoi An Old Town, where you are picked up and driven to the experience. After a short introduction to your expert English-speaking guide and chef, you receive cool water to refresh. From here, the program follows the option you selected at booking, starting with either the local market, the bamboo basket boat area, or the cooking venue.

What to expect

Local market visit

This stop focuses on a vibrant Vietnamese market, where daily life unfolds among fresh produce and local stalls.

Features

• Walk through a local market with your English-speaking guide and chef, who helps you discover fresh Vietnamese ingredients used in dishes such as Bánh Xèo, spring rolls, and Phở Gà.
• Learn how to choose herbs, vegetables, and other essentials for your recipes during this local market visit for fresh ingredients, when it is included in your selected option.
• Enjoy cool water during the outing, and travel to and from the market using your round-trip Hoi An hotel or Old Town transfers where this visit forms part of your itinerary.

Cam Thanh countryside and water coconut forest

This part of the experience takes you into the peaceful Cam Thanh countryside and its distinctive water coconut forest.

Features

• Spend time in the Cam Thanh countryside, observing traditional local life and rural landscapes that frame the waterways and the water coconut forest.
• Glide along the channels on a basket boat ride through the water coconut forest, watching how locals use traditional Vietnamese fishing methods among the palms.
• Experience the basket boat ride, water coconut forest, and fishing methods component when it is included in your chosen option, with cool water provided and round-trip Hoi An hotel or Old Town transfers getting you there and back.

Vietnamese cooking class

The core of the experience is an engaging Vietnamese cooking class led by your chef in a small-group setting.

Features

• Join a small-group Vietnamese cooking class with your expert English-speaking guide and chef, who explains each step clearly and keeps the session interactive.
• Prepare popular local cuisine such as Bánh Xèo, spring rolls, and Phở Gà during the Vietnamese cooking class, then sit down to enjoy the lunch or dinner you have cooked when this meal is part of your option.
• Receive a detailed recipe and a special souvenir to take home, so you can recreate Vietnamese flavors for family and friends, included with the cooking class in the relevant options.
• Take part in the Vietnamese cooking class only, or combine it with the local market visit or basket boat ride, depending on whether you booked Cooking Class Only, Local Market Visit + Cooking Class, Basket Boat Ride + Cooking Class, or the Full Experience.

Countryside meal experience

This segment brings the flavors together in a relaxed meal that reflects the local setting.

Features

• Sit down for lunch or dinner, according to your booking, either featuring the dishes you have prepared in the cooking class or served after your basket boat ride when you choose Basket Boat Ride + Lunch or Dinner.
• Share the meal in a small-group environment, using the fresh ingredients sourced from the local market in the Full Experience and Local Market Visit + Cooking Class options.
• Rely on your round-trip transfers from Hoi An hotels or Old Town to return after your lunch or dinner, while hotel pickup and drop-off from Da Nang is available at an extra charge.

Wrapping up

At the end of the experience, your driver takes you back to your Hoi An hotel or Hoi An Old Town using the included round-trip transfers, and you leave with your recipe and souvenir whenever a Vietnamese cooking class forms part of your chosen option.