Hanoi cooking school

There are three different cuisines in Vietnam. The North, with its four seasons, will offer a country-style cuisine, using vegetables and herbs and freshwater fish.

Hanoi is proud of Pho (noodle with beef or chicken), Thanh Tri pancake…. So, discover Hanoi with a cooking course will be unforgettable memory and it is also the great chance to deeply discover Hanoi tradition & local lifestyle

EZ COOKING SCHOOL

This professional school is for both local people and foreigners as they are close partner with some shows on TV. Choosing EZ School to learn some Vietnamese dishes that will be cooked afterward at your home

The normal course at the school will be long around 5hours (half day in morning) that is inclusive local market visiting (Chau Long or Thanh Cong market) with chef, hand-on 3 dishes cooking then feast

The typical Vietnamese menus for learning:

• Vietnamese Spring Rolls or Fresh Spring Rolls
• Charcoal Grilled Pork with Vietnamese Noodle
• Pho served with chicken/pork
• Thang Long Grilled Fish
• Rice pancake folded in half (and filled with a shrimp, meat and soya bean sprouts)
• Boneless chicken and lotus bean, green rice flakes rolled with lotus leave, stewed and fried
• Sweet and sour spareribs
• Braised Chicken with Mugwort, common sagebrush.
• Steamed Snails with ginger leave

HIDDEN HANOI PALACE

The Hidden Hanoi Cooking School is not just only show you how to cook Vietnamese dishes but also step by step help you learn more about Vietnamese culture throughout the course with the short movie demonstrating a traditional Vietnamese kitchen; water rice agriculture; the different spices; the market; and of course fish sauce….

So, take a review for your consideration about Hidden Hanoi “Whether you're interested in a cooking lesson or just taking a tour (or even learning to speak a little Vietnamese), we cannot recommend Hidden Hanoi highly enough”

The typical menus following theme for learning:

Seafood

• Fresh Spring Rolls with Prawns
• Papaya Salad
• Sweet and Sour Prawns
• Sour Fish Soup

Monsoon

• Banana flower salad
• Claypot Stewed Chicken with lotus seeds and mushrooms
• Cabbage Rolls filled with Pork and mushrooms
• Green wasabi leaves Soup

Street Food

• Fresh Bun Noodle and mixed herb Salad
• Marinated and BBQ'd Pork
• Ngoc mum (fish sauce) soup with green papaya and carrot
• Fried Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Village Menu

• Water Spinach Salad/season vegetable
• Clay pot Stewed Eggplant with Pork
• Mussel Soup
• Tofu with fresh Tomato Sauce
• Vegetarian
• Fried tofu balls
• Vegetarian curry
• Boiled Susu with salted peanuts
• Bean sprout soup

HANOI COOKING CENTER

HanoiCooking Centreclasses are an interactive andfun way to learn new cooking skills and experience the tastes and textures of the cuisine of Vietnam and many other countries.

The Centreoffers hands-on cooking classes and short courses in a relaxed atmosphere, designed by Chef Tracey Lister. All things that related to culinary will be care in Hanoi Cooking Centre with Vietnamese cooking and International Cooking Classes, street food, cooking for kids…

The typical menus following theme for learning:

• Ha Noi and the Northern Highlands
• Food from the coast
• Vietnamese Street Food
• Vegan Tofu Cookery
• Spring Rolls
• BBQs and Salads

VERTICLE – HOME COOKING

Discover fusion cooking, between East and West, with the Chef Didier Corlou – the chef at Metropole Legend Hanoi hotel, he is famous with passion in nuoc mam (fish sauce). What he has learned from his thirty-year worldwide experience and from his own development of techniques is that the creation has to respect the minorities’ cuisine, but also to be associated with the environment and the ground’s biology, the culture, the fishing and the seasons...

However, the highlight is his wife: Mai Corlou with traditional Vietnamese cooking in her house.

The typical traditional Vietnamese menus for learning:

· Vietnamese banana flower salad

· Hanoi nem (deep fried spring rolls)

· Grilled chicken with lemon leaves

· Bun cha

· Sautéed pumpkin branches

OLD HANOI

Old Hanoi provides the very best and most authentic Vietnamese food in the capital by setting truly Hanoian in style.

Daily Classes start in tropical garden quarter then walk to market to discover the ingredients and watch the locals pick their daily food and haggle over the price. Feel free to join in the process and have a go at haggling with the help of your chef. Cook then feast your amazed created dish.

The typical Vietnamese menus for learning:

· Fresh spring rolls with pork and shrimps

· Grilled chicken on skewers with lime leafs

· Steamed fish wrapped in lotus leaf with tamarind juice

· Logan stuffed with lotus seeds

HIGHWAY 4

Highway4 offers private cooking classes that focus on an active participation. During the class itself you will be provided with your own workstation as you enjoy the challenge of producing Vietnamese foods.

The cooking class starts with local market visiting by cycle then takes part in hand-on cooking class with chef for 3 dishes. The program is normal without any specialty.

The typical traditional Vietnamese menus for learning:

• Saigon fried pork spring roll
• Fish simmered in fish sauce in Clay Pot
• Beef sautéed in black sauce

VAN GIANG VILLAGE COOKING

This is great chance to discover and learning about rural of Vietnam as well as farmers’ life style in countryside. The course will start with strolling around rural market that holds in green field or along the tranquility road.

Fair is one of typical culture of Vietnamese and wet-rice civilization is pride for the land so, cooking demonstration at ancient house in the village should not be missed if you really love to deeply discover the Vietnam. You can also take part in Vietnam folk song show (Ca Tru or Quan Ho fork song) at the village.

The typical traditional Vietnamese menus for learning:

• Spring rolls.
• Sautéed morning glory.
• Bun cha