Food Tours and Cooking Classes in Vietnam
Forty-nine experiences in two cities. A street food walk in Hanoi has a median price of 25 EUR, the lowest of any destination on this site, and Hoi An sells almost nothing but cooking classes.
Vietnam is the cheapest country on this site by a wide margin, and the gap is not small enough to be a rounding error. A street food walk in Hanoi sits at a median of 25 EUR. The same walk in Rome is 82. In Mexico City it is 98. Whatever else you conclude about the food, the arithmetic here is unusual: you can book two guided evenings in Hanoi for less than one afternoon in most European capitals.
The two cities do not sell the same thing, and the difference is sharper than any brochure will tell you. Hanoi sells walking: a guide, an evening, six or eight stops on plastic stools. Hoi An sells a kitchen. Book the wrong one and you will have a fine day, but not the one you were imagining.
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Food Tours Experiences in Vietnam
Hanoi Street Food with Sidewalk Green Tea and a Vegan Option
A rotating menu of noodle soups, snails, sticky rice and pancakes, with green tea on a plastic stool. Vegan and train street versions, pickup and drop-off.
Mai Home on the Co Co River: Six Hours, Their Own Recipes
Six hours at a restaurant on the Co Co river, with herbs from Tra Que bought that morning and recipes the kitchen wrote itself. Market tour and basket boat.
Ma May Cooking Class in Hanoi with a Market Walk and Cyclo
A cyclo collects you from the Old Quarter, the chef walks you round the market with street food stops, then you cook the set menu and sit down to eat it.
Maya Kitchen Hanoi: Four Dishes, Egg Coffee and Rice Wine
Fried spring rolls, papaya salad, pho rolls and mixed pho, bought at the market first and cooked in the Old Quarter, with egg coffee and a local wine tasting.
Mrs Tram's Riverside Kitchen and the Bay Mau Nipa Forest
The basket boat goes into the Bay Mau nipa palm forest rather than open water, and the meal is eaten in a garden on the river. Chef Mrs Tram, up to twelve.
My Grandma's Kitchen on An Hoi Islet, in French or English
A family house rather than a school: five and a half hours, six people to a booking, a boat trip, lunch and the recipe book. Taught in French or English.
O Quan Chuong to Hang Bac: Hanoi's 36 Streets by Mouth
Starts at the last surviving city gate, works through six to eight vendors in the 36 streets, and ends on dessert at Hang Bac with egg coffee on the way.
Phin Coffee, a Lantern to Keep, and Cao Lau in Phu Lanh
Brew coffee through a phin, make a lantern you take home, and cook Cao Lau, the noodle that only exists in Hoi An. Plus 45 minutes in a basket boat.
Pick from Thirty-Eight Dishes: Hoi An, Three Hours
A menu of 38 Vietnamese dishes and you pick yours, taught by chefs with twenty years behind them. Three hours, also taught in Korean, French and Dutch.
Pounding and Grinding by Hand in Cam Thanh Coconut Village
Bun bo nam bo, pho, banh xeo and goi cuon cooked by hand, with rice paper made on traditional tools and a basket boat through the Bay Mau coconut forest.
Private Apron Up Class: Five Dishes You Choose Yourself
You name the five dishes and a home chef teaches them, with time to ask everything. Four hours, private, in the middle of the Old Quarter.
Private Hanoi Class by Cyclo, Through the Little Alleys
Five hours: a cyclo ride, a market reached through alleys most visitors never turn into, then a private class with professional chefs and the meal you cooked.
Private Hanoi Food Walk: Ten Dishes and the Original Egg Coffee
Your own guide for three hours and ten dishes across the Old Quarter, past St Joseph's and Ta Hien, finishing at the original egg coffee cafe.
River Activities and a Cooking Class in the Hoi An Countryside
Four hours out of the old town: the local market, a basket boat, river activities and the class. Fifteen places, air-conditioned transfer, English guide.
Seven Dishes and the Train Street, Eight People Only
Bun cha, pho bo, bun rieu, pork porridge, banh xeo, banh mi and salad, then the train street with an egg coffee and the entrance fee already paid.
Shop the Market, Then Cook in Someone's Kitchen, Hoi An
The class happens in a local family's house, not a school kitchen. Basket boat first, then the market for the ingredients. Five hours, vegetarian on request.
Ten Tastings at Midday in Hanoi, in Six Languages
Ten tastings across six to eight vendors, with a beer, a rice wine, an egg coffee and a dessert. Guided in six languages, including French and Spanish.
Thanh Ha Market Class with Unlimited Homemade Rice Liquor
A wet market walk, four and a half hours of cooking, unlimited homemade liquor, and a coffee tasting: salted, egg or coconut. Your booking funds hospital meals.
Thom Culinary: Harvest the Herbs, Then Cook Four Dishes
Three markets by cyclo, then a herb and tropical fruit garden where you pick what you cook. Four dishes, bottomless herbal drinks and homemade rice wine.
Three Michelin-Listed Stalls in Hanoi and an Egg Coffee
Dry chicken pho from a kitchen thirty years old, glass noodles with fried eel, Michelin-mentioned bun cha, and egg coffee at a hidden cafe over the lake.
Tra Que Herb Village, Duck Farm and a Hoi An Cooking Class
The herb village at Tra Que, a duck farm, a herbal cocktail and four Vietnamese dishes cooked with Chef Tam, with pickup included. Four and a half hours.
Tra Que Herb Village: Rice Paper, Water Buffalo, Basket Boat
Six hours in the famous organic herb village: make rice paper from scratch, ride a water buffalo, row a basket boat, and eat in a restored old house.
Two Full Hours at the Stove: Hoi An Eco Tour and Fishing
The cooking gets two hours of its own here, after the market, the nipa palm canals and the crab-catching. Da Nang pick-up available for an extra fee.
Two Hours in a Garden Villa: Cook One Hanoi Dish Properly
Pick pho, bun cha or banh xeo and cook that one properly, in a garden villa away from the crowds, with an egg, coconut or salt coffee to finish.
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