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Half-day tour in Hanoi, including English-speaking instructor and Lunch or dinner. Run by Apron Up Cooking Class, booked direct rather than through a reseller.
Highlights
- Runs 3.5 hours
- English-speaking instructor
- Lunch or dinner
- Market trip
- All ingredients and tools
- Hands-on class making 5 dishes
5 Local Dishes Cooking Class with Meal and Market Visit in Hanoi: Key Facts
| Price | From $55 per person |
|---|---|
| Duration | 3.5 hours |
| Languages | English |
| Tour type | Guided Tour |
| Booking | Direct with the local operator — no OTA markup |
Choose from 2 available options
Menu: Pho, Bun Cha, Spring Roll, Papaya Salad, & Egg Coffee
Menu: Banh Xeo, Soup, Beef Roll, Chicken Salad, & Ice Cream
Full description
This is a 3.5-hour experience in Hanoi. Your place is held with the operator before we treat your booking as final.
Hanoi is a thousand years old and a French colonial capital and it is both at once: the Old Quarter's 36 streets each named for the guild that traded there, the lake of the returned sword at its heart, the Temple of Literature from 1070, the mausoleum where Ho Chi Minh lies in state (mornings only, closed Mondays and Fridays and for two months each autumn), and the tree-lined French quarter of villas and the Opera House. The Train Street cafes, where the railway runs a metre from the tables, open and close as the authorities change their minds. Egg coffee was invented here in 1946, bun cha is the lunch, and the water-puppet theatre by the lake is the evening. Hanoi is cool and grey from December to February and hot from May to September; October and November are the months.
The price covers instructor, Lunch or dinner, Market trip, All ingredients and tools and Hands-on class making 5 dishes. It does not cover Transportation and Tips, so budget for those separately. Everything included is listed in full on this page; if something is not on that list, assume it is not in the price.
The meeting point and time are emailed as soon as the booking is confirmed. We need at least one day's notice, and we confirm the date before treating your booking as final. If the date cannot be confirmed we tell you and refund you rather than leave you waiting.
Includes
- English-speaking instructor
- Lunch or dinner
- Market trip
- All ingredients and tools
- Hands-on class making 5 dishes
- Tea and rice whisky
- Fruit
- Cook book and certificate
Excludes
- Transportation
- Tips
Important information
Meeting point
Apron Up Cooking Class sends the meeting point and time by email as soon as the booking is confirmed.
Know before you go
- Free cancellation available up to 24 hours before the activity starts
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Traveler Reviews
Fun & tasty Emmy was a great host: friendly, knowledgeable and encouraging throughout the course. Very nice way to get closer to Vietnamese culture, highly recommend!
Excellent cooking class, delicious meals cooked and shared with a great group of travellers. Chef Vy also fabulous. Highly recommend this activity
It was excellent. The food was delicious and Hazel was a great instructor. She also gave great local restaurant recommendations. Can't recommend highly enough!
Hailey was amazing! She was so friendly, patient, and made the whole cooking class really fun and enjoyable. She explained everything clearly and shared interesting tips about Vietnamese cuisine and ingredients. And, of course, the food was absolutely delicious! I really enjoyed the experience and would definitely recommend this cooking class to anyone visiting Vietnam. Thank you, Hailey! 🇻🇳❤️
We really enjoyed our class. Hazel was such a great host- the way she shared her knowledge was really engaging. We’ll definitely be making these recipes again
Hailey was great. She helped us every step of the way to prepare our set of pho bo, nem, bun cha, papaya salad, and egg coffee (for a late class, we had the option for drinking chocolate instead of coffee). The steps are surprisingly simple; we thought of Vietnamese food as being this exotic, difficult kind of food to prepare, but taught to make it this way makes it way more accessible. Especially the beef pho: just a two-hour simmer, not some crazy 18-hour broth. We’ll def try this at home, thank you!
Haley was an greatful Guide. The experience was fantastic. Thank you for your service. You are very friendly and funny…
Fun, hands-on class with great food – highly recommend!
What a fabulous experience. Our guide, Vee, took us to the market to purchase the food. She explained so much about not only the food we were purchasing, but the logistics of how food is brought to the consumers. We went back to the cooking school and prepared the food. The organisation was excellent, the education and instruction was excellent and the food fantastic. It’s given me a lot of inspiration to try different foods in Vietnam and to try cooking it myself at home. Highly recommended
Hazel our guide spoke perfect English and was an absolute delight! She took us around the markets collecting ingredients and then back upstairs to cook up a feast. We chose the less popular menu that includes Ban Xeo sizzling crepes, beef and meatball soup, beef rice noodle rolls, chicken banana blossom herb salad and banana coconut frozen dessert - highly recommend! What a fun interactive activity to share together as a family.
We had a wonderful cooking workshop with Hailey 😍 Starting with a walk to local food dealers around the corner, shopping vegetables, meats and noodles. Hailey took plenty of time to explain all kinds of herbs and veggies and after the basket was full, we returned to the cooking place on the second floor and started right away with the preparation of the Pho, following up with Bun Cha meat, the filling for the spring rolls and sliced the Papaya for the salad. After finishing the dishes one after another we were able to enjoy all the food in a restaurant like room on the first floor… of course w
Hazel was a brilliant guide. We learned so much about the ingredients and methods and the food was delicious!