More than just a cooking class. This is a cooking tour!
On this tour, we will take you to explore the beautiful countryside just outside of Hoi An, at Cam Thanh Village, about 4 kilometres from the centre of the Ancient City.
The day is jam-packed with lovely local activities…
- We will visit a local market
- Take a boat trip on the river
- Go basket boat sailing
- See traditional buffalo cart pulling
- Learn how to cook a local meal
- Relax with a Vietnamese foot, head and shoulder massage
We have two (half-day) tours each day and you can choose to join either time of day:
- Morning tour: 8 am – 1 pm
- Afternoon tour: 1 pm – 6 pm
Please note: We need a minimum of 2 guests to operate the tour.
The tour includes:
- Pick up and drop off at your hotel (within the Hoi An area)
- English-speaking tour guide
- Tour of the local market where we’ll learn about Vietnamese herbs and vegetables
- Welcome drink
- Cold drinking water for each person
- Boat trip on the river
- Basket boat sailing
- Buffalo cart transfer
- Foot, head and shoulder massage
- Cooking four local dishes
The Menu that you will cook:
- Rolled rice paper with minced pork and vegetables
- Vietnamese pancake (bahn xeo)
- Sautéed chicken with lemongrass and chilli
- Mango salad with seafood
Hi, I’m Nikki and I started South East Asia Backpacker in 2008 after my own first solo backpacking trip! My vision was to create a travel diary for everyone, a place for travellers to share their experiences from the road. After backpacking and writing about Southeast Asia for over 10 years, I saw the opportunity to provide backpackers with the kind of experiences that I’d treasured myself in the region! 
Becca Smith –
Hello! I really enjoyed this cooking class which brought together different aspects of Vietnam. We started by pick up at hotel, then we were dropped off at Hoi An market to meet host and chef, Be! Be was an amazing chef with great sense of humour ?. She took us to a stall and explained the spices we would be using in the class, I loved this explanation and went back the next day to buy some of the spices she recommended so we can recreate the dish at home. We then went the scenic route to the cooking class, first the boat ride for 30 minutes, then the roundboat for ten minutes, then the cart ride for 5 minutes! We were greeted with a massage which was really good, somewhat surreal but they were so good and it was so nice arrival experience. Then we began the cooking class, awesome to learn about food decoration creating and dishes, we all agreed we would be able to recreate the curry dish at home. Class finish we are dropped off at homestay or convenient point, overall such great hospitality and experience of Vietnamese cuisine and cooking style.