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Saigon Center Culinary Experience: Chef Vu Cooking Class and Market Tour with Cyclo Pick-Up
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Embark on a culinary adventure in Saigon with Chef Vu’s cooking class and market tour. Learn essential kitchen skills, choose fresh ingredients at Ben Thanh market, and cook delicious Vietnamese dishes. Finish off with a delightful egg coffee dessert.
Embark on a culinary adventure in Saigon with Chef Vu’s cooking class and market tour. Learn essential kitchen skills, choose fresh ingredients at Ben Thanh market, and cook delicious Vietnamese dishes. Finish off with a delightful egg coffee dessert.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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133 Ä. Nguyá»
n Du - 8.00AM: Pick-up at hotel and get 30-minute cyclo trip
8.30AM: Arrive at meeting point for training session-preparing part for market trip. There,you will choose the menu to cook together.
8:45AM: Start market trip with tour guide that time you practice how to pay in Dong, bargain with local vendors, choose freshest…
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133 Ä. Nguyá»
n Du - 8.00AM: Pick-up at hotel and get 30-minute cyclo trip
8.30AM: Arrive at meeting point for training session-preparing part for market trip. There,you will choose the menu to cook together.
8:45AM: Start market trip with tour guide that time you practice how to pay in Dong, bargain with local vendors, choose freshest ingredients,
9:15.00AM: Begin the class with useful kitchen skills likes knives skills, decoration dishes skills, marinating skills to get Vietfood’s taste.
11.30AM: Enjoy your achievement which you cook yourself and get Egg coffee for dessert.
12.00AM: Finish the cooking class.
List of dishes - Started dishes: mango salad, papaya salad, fresh spring rolls, fried spring roll traditional version/pumpkin blossoms version.
- Main dishes:Stewed fish in clay pot, sauteed chicken with lemongrass, stewed pork belly in clay pot,simmer pork rips. Grill pork meat with steamed rice noodle, chicken noodle sup
- Soup dishes: bok choy soup with minced meat, green melon soup with chopped shrimp, pumpkin soup with minced meat, sour soup with seafood.
- Must-have dish: Pancake
- Free bonus dishes: Stirred fry morning glory with garlic
What's Included
- Pick up service by cyclo (hotels located within district 1 and 3 area)
- 30-minute cyclo trip
- Visit Ben Thanh market
- Chef’s direction, recipes
- Cooking ingredients
- Lunch
- Mineral water, the best ice-cream in Saigon
- English speaking tour guide
- Certificates
- Pick up service by cyclo (hotels located within district 1 and 3 area)
- 30-minute cyclo trip
- Visit Ben Thanh market
- Chef’s direction, recipes
- Cooking ingredients
- Lunch
- Mineral water, the best ice-cream in Saigon
- English speaking tour guide
- Certificates
What's Not Included
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Meal Options
- Egg coffee
- Pancake
- Fried Spring rolls
- Chicken noodles soup
- Papaya salad
- Egg coffee
- Pancake
- Fried Spring rolls
- Chicken noodles soup
- Papaya salad
Additional Information
Pick-up at 8AM: Guests who stay at hotel within district 1 and district 3 area.Cyclo drivers pick you up at hotels at 8AM. Please provide your hotel address/room no/whatsapp no in your booking.
You will get 30-minute cyclo trip
Meet-up at 8.00AM: Guests who stay other districts, please come to my place at Cyclo Resto: 133 Nguyen Du street, Ben Thanh…
Pick-up at 8AM: Guests who stay at hotel within district 1 and district 3 area.Cyclo drivers pick you up at hotels at 8AM. Please provide your hotel address/room no/whatsapp no in your booking.
You will get 30-minute cyclo trip
Meet-up at 8.00AM: Guests who stay other districts, please come to my place at Cyclo Resto: 133 Nguyen Du street, Ben Thanh ward, district 1. When you finish cooking class, you get 30-minutes cyclo trip.
Then,gathering at Cyclo Resto, tour guide helps you discuss and choose the menu to cook. Some useful skills to do the market trip as using VND money, bargaining skills, how to choose freshest ingredients,…After that, visit the Ben Thanh market for practice them.
Finish market trip, Chef will show you the most useful kitchen skills, how to cook Vietnamese dishes that can easy be repeated at home. You will get a hand on training from professional local chef.
Around 11.30am, enjoy your achivement, egg coffee as dessert.
- Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
133 Đ. Nguyễn Du
Đường Nguyễn Du
We offer pick up service in district 1 and district 3
Guests living outside pick up area. Pleae come to meeting point.
Please provide your whatsapp no in booking. So we contact you easily.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(445 Ratings)
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Tania_j
Nov 13, 2024
Best cooking class ever! - Wanting to know more about how to cook my fav Vietnamese dishes, we had high hopes for this cooking class. We were lucky enough to be the only ones booked on this tour so we got a one on one class. Chef Vu was explained the main flavours of Vietnamese food and was an excellent teacher. This class did not disappoint and is a must if you are looking to learn more about Vietnamese cuisine! Going to the Ben Thanh market to buy ingredients for our dishes and the 30 minute cyclo ride around HCM City were bonuses. Highly recommend.
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Mrchik97
Oct 25, 2024
Fantastic Chef, Fantastic Experience - The ride to the restaurant was unique. Chef Vu was very friendly and patient. The food that we were taught was delicious!
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Jane_s
Oct 13, 2024
Cooking Experience - My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our cooking experience with Chef Vu. We learnt so much, with knife techniques and simple.cooking processes that produce beautiful meals.
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778kimberlyh
Sep 27, 2024
Cooking class and Market Tour - Saigon - I did a private class as my partner was not interested in cooking. It was a great experience and we picked easy foods I could make back home in Australia. Chef Vu was very helpful to customise the menu since I am vegitarian and was fun to cook with. We sampled the foods and he ensured I did most of the cooking. He was very organised and well prepared.
Thanks for a great morning. Suggestion if you book... come hungry 😋
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Flyer21343112097
Sep 16, 2024
Kids Love It! - We chosen this for kids' exposure to local culture. The rich and interesting combination are just perfect. Starting with very attentive cyclo cyclists, riding us through the morning city traffic, showing us several key landmarks along the 30 min rides, even stopping in front of the palace and church for photos (not all cyclo do that). They asked for tips at the end of the ride (which I was told by the guide that it has been covered) but it's worth it, especially considering their age and effort. Next, the market visit is short and sweet. For those who does not eat live seafood, please inform the guide at the start of the visit to avoid him buying any live prawns. The walk from the market to Chef Vu cooking place is about 10 mins. The whole cooking session is long but quite fast pace, which is just nice to cover all the menu. They are very attentive to kids, ensuring their safety and even offer to take video and photo. So parents can still do our own cooking peacefully. The egg yolk coffee is a perfect ending for the session. My kid gave 10/10 rating to the session, he said he loves everything!
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Dream01408014433
Sep 4, 2024
It was an amazing experience! - We went around town in Cyclo and then joined a cooking class.
The cyclo was relaxing and comfortable to feel the wind.
Chef Vu was very easy to talk to and taught me how to cook.
I was able to cook with peace of mind because I had a very strong sense of hygiene.
The finished dish was too good to believe I made it!
I got the recipe when I finished, so I'll make it at home again.
Thank you very much.
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686robz
Aug 19, 2024
Fun and enjoyable food experience - A very enjoyable experience. Picked up by cyclo bike first off and had a short tour of the town. Didn't expect the tour as we thought we were heading straight to market to meet others in the class. So a good surprise. Food buying at market was interesting with guide and then off to cook with Chef Vu. He explained the meals, ingredients, style, flavours very well and then showed us how to prepare and cook our meals. Food was yummy, Chef Vu was great, food filling and then we finished off with an and egg coffee. Fun and enjoyable.
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Diane
Aug 16, 2024
Chef Vu for the win - Excellent service. Loved the cyclo ride with the driver pointing out the local landmarks along the way. Our guide around the market was very informative and explained all the processes to us. Chef Vu was excellent and it was great having a smaller group. Every one got to do everything and cooked all our own food so we could accommodate our own tastes. Would highly recommend this course.
Didn’t receive the email with the recipes though.
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K5958oajamesl
Nov 12, 2024
Cooking class is great, the rest is just filler. Overall good time. - Very fun and informative cooking class, Chef Vu starts off with the absolute basics and then turns the dial up in line with how skilled/experienced you actually look. Probably didn’t need to have the cyclo ride or the market trip but it only took up about an hour out of the 3-ish hour experience.
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Munez76
Oct 3, 2024
Easy cooking, delicious food - A lovely half day experience that I shared with my daughter. This experience is recommended for people who don’t know a lot about Vietnamese cuisine. You also don’t need a lot of skill in the kitchen. The dishes were basic but the food was delicious.
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