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.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • 133 Đ. Nguyễn 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
  • Chef-led cooking instructions and recipes
  • Explore Ben Thanh market
  • Delicious lunch included
  • Refreshments: mineral water and egg coffee
  • Convenient pick-up service by cyclo
  • Knowledgeable English-speaking tour guide
  • Scenic 30-minute cyclo trip
  • All cooking ingredients provided
  • Commemorative certificates
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Meal Options
  • 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 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.

Customer Ratings
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Debwo5881ot
May 14, 2024
Must do cooking experience!! - Vu and his team are funny and friendly...we enjoyed all if it...cyclo tour, market and cooking. Learnt some new techniques and created amazing food with creative garnish. Topped off by egg coffee. Well organised. Totally recommend
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Loren_t
May 13, 2024
Well Worth It! - Chef Vu makes the whole learning experience very fun. Getting the Cyclo ride, going through the market, learning to cook the menu, and then eating what you made......what's not to like? We are from the States but the others in the class were from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
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Kerry
Apr 30, 2024
The Chef is in Charge - Was so much fun!! Chef is in charge! Learned allot of cooking techniques and recommend this class to anyone wanting a fun class.
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120ashlyt
Apr 18, 2024
Worth it and recommend it to everyone’s itinerary in Ho Chi Minh - We had such an amazing experience from beginning to end. Started with a scenic ride then off to the market for fresh ingredients. My husband and I did a private class with Chef Vụ and his sous chef. Whether you have little to no experience in the kitchen chef vụ is the best at what he does. The food came out so delicious. So worth it!
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B8947jtjaned
Apr 14, 2024
Great way to start your holiday - introductions to the food markets and taste some of the local cuisine - We started our trip with a ride in a cyclo, with our rider pointing key buildings out to us along the way. We met the other people at the food markets and walked the short distance to the cooking class location. Chef Vu was very entertaining and we had a lot of laughs. The food we cooked was amazing and we received the recipe at the end via email. Would have been a great way to start our trip with this cooking class - giving us a great introduction to Vietnamese food. Would highly recommend this cooking class with Chef Vu !
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Explorer15232262968
Apr 13, 2024
Highly recommend - Great activity for teens food was delicious and chef super helpful. Very well organised and highly recommend to get out of heat of Saigon!
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Global661948
Apr 1, 2024
Fantastic course! - This was such fun, the tour around the market was with very sweet enthusiastic staff. The cooking course was fantastic - Chef Vu has amazing energy and a great sense of humor - everyone felt at ease with clear instructions and delicious food. Air con during the session was also hugely appreciated! Thanks so much for such a memorable experience - we will definitely make these dishes for friends at home!
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Daveyjones
Mar 29, 2024
Highly recommend! - Great cooking class! Highly recommend - we had a really interesting walk around the market and the cooking class was very fun and interactive. Pick up from the hotel by cyclo was also fun and different!
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Gynelle
Mar 27, 2024
Great cooking class! - Had a fantastic day! Laney brought us to the market, explained everything, and answered lots of questions. He was very kind and accommodating! He spoke great English as well. The cooking lesson was very thorough. We learned how to make many dishes with Chef Vu. He explained everything well and was super helpful as was his assistant. Highly recommended!
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Kiarna_n
May 15, 2024
A great experience that we can bring home - Overall a great experience, got to eat what we made, got a cyclo through the city and got copies of the recipes so we can cook them at home. We had a small group (myself and my travel companion with only one other person) which meant we had a personal experience. The few cons are that there is the assumption you can cook and have cooked with oil and fire - we were quite hesitant to create the fire in the pan as we are used to electric stoves and it was expected for us to try it despite our hesitancy - same with deep frying, Chef Vu helped if we were struggling a lot but unsure how this would go in a bigger class size. The cycle drivers expected a tip and looked unhappy until we gave them more than what we had originally given them (we were happy to tip and would have without being asked but felt a bit uncomfortable considering we were tipping well). It was cool to see the market in the morning when the food stalls were open (and fresh) but our tour guide has limited English so it was hard to ask questions and answer what we wanted to cook but we understand we’re coming to a non English speaking country so weren’t too fussed. Overall a great experience but just some things to be prepared for
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