Hoian Farmers

The occassion was great

Wir hatten eine absolut fantastische Zeit in unserem Kochkurs in Vietnam! Meine beiden Söhne und ich hätten uns keine schönere Erfahrung wünschen können. Das Abenteuer begann, als uns der Restaurantbesitzer freundlicherweise von unserem Hostel abholte. Gemeinsam erkundeten wir zu viert den lokalen Markt, wo er uns mit Begeisterung alles über das frische Obst und Gemüse, das Fleisch und die exotischen Früchte erklärte. Er gab uns auch Tipps, wann man am besten einkauft, da die meisten frischen Zutaten typischerweise morgens gekauft werden. Da wir uns für den Nachmittagskurs entschieden hatten, mussten wir keine Zutaten kaufen, aber es war trotzdem ein faszinierendes Erlebnis. Nach dem Marktbesuch fuhren wir zum Restaurant, wo uns der Besitzer das Konzept seines Restaurants, seinen selbst angebauten Gemüsegarten und die lokalen Initiativen zur Förderung natürlicher, pestizidfreier Landwirtschaft vorstellte. Es war inspirierend zu sehen, wie die Gemeinde nachhaltige Landwirtschaft unterstützt. Im Restaurant angekommen, fanden wir alle Zutaten ordentlich für uns vorbereitet vor. Der Besitzer leitete uns mit klaren Anweisungen durch jeden Schritt des Kochprozesses, sodass es einfach und unterhaltsam war, mitzumachen. Wir bereiteten mehrere traditionelle vietnamesische Gerichte zu, und es war unglaublich befriedigend zu sehen, wie alles zusammenkam. Der Höhepunkt war das Decken des Tisches mit all den köstlichen Gerichten, die wir zubereitet hatten, und der Genuss des frischen, authentischen Geschmacks. Zu wissen, dass alles mit frischen Zutaten zubereitet worden war, machte es noch besser! Als wundervolle Überraschung erhielten wir ein Zertifikat mit unseren Namen – eine tolle Erinnerung an dieses unvergessliche Erlebnis. Zum krönenden Abschluss gab es frisches Obst als Dessert. Insgesamt war dieser Kochkurs eine fantastische Möglichkeit, mehr über die vietnamesische Küche und Kultur zu erfahren. Die Gastfreundschaft, das Fachwissen und die Leidenschaft des Inhabers machten ihn zu etwas ganz Besonderem. Wir können dieses Erlebnis jedem Vietnam-Besucher wärmstens empfehlen!

Wir begannen den Kurs in unserem Hotel und wurden mit dem Fahrrad abgeholt. Anschließend unternahmen wir eine Radtour zum lokalen Markt, was eine tolle Erfahrung war, um zu sehen, woher die Produkte kommen. Auf dem Weg zum Restaurant der Familie machten wir einen kurzen Stopp bei den Bauern aus der Umgebung, um noch frische Zutaten einzukaufen. Im Restaurant wurden wir mit einem Begrüßungsgetränk empfangen, und dann begann der Kurs. Es hat uns sehr viel Spaß gemacht, die Zubereitung der frischen Gerichte zu lernen, und wir hatten eine Menge Freude mit unserem Kursleiter. Nach dem Essen erhielten wir ein Zertifikat und die Rezepte. Alles in allem war es ein großartiger Tag, und ich kann diesen Kochkurs nur empfehlen.

If you wish to learn to cook your own Vietnamese food, then this is the place to go. Our hosts Tre and Moon were very helpful and kind. The food was delicious and we were taught step by step on how to make our own dishes and recipes to take home. We also rode the bicycles to town and visited the local market. Highly recommended.

Chef met us at our hotel and we took a golf cart to our bicycle stop. Then a very exciting bike ride through Hoi An traffic! One of our party wasn’t able to bicycle so she rode in style on the back of his scooter. After a tour of a local market, we headed to the country for a peaceful ride between rice paddies. The Tra Que Herb village is an amazing community space with organic gardens and shrimp pools. We learned how they grow vegetables and then headed to the pavilion to cook our lunch. Chef and his wife Moon are great hosts. We made 4 delicious dishes and we were very happy to hear they wash vegetables in treated water so we were able to enjoy them uncooked!! And we didn’t have to ride our bicycles back to town….he drove us in his SUV An excellent experience!!

This cooking class was an Amazing experience ! We visited the local market and then a vegetable garden. It was really instructive. Then we went to the lovely house of Moon and her husband. We cooked 5 different dishes. Ans everything was just really excellent! The couple is so kind i really recommand you to take a cooking class with them !

We had lots of fun at the class. The hosts are super friendly and speak good English. As we’re both vegetarians they changed the menue and we cooked something with tofu instead fish. All ingredients were fresh. We could ask a lot and at the end we had a very nice dinner at the family’s terrace with a beautiful view. The cooking class takes place at the amazing vegetable village which is absolutely worth a Visite. Would totally recommend if you want to get an impression about Vietnamese cuisine.

We had a nice view into the vietnamese kitchen secrets how to make their great local food of course with an awesome dinner of all self prepared dishes. The location in the herbal village was an additional highlight for us. The cooking class is given by a very lovely vietnamese couple, depending on the group size at their own terrace at home or at their restaurant one street further, both very beautiful and authentic locations. We enjoyed the time learning about their way to prepare the food. They already had some vegetables prepared ready to use, others we were cutting by ourself. Rolling the spring rolls and frying the rice pancakes is made by yourself to learn the correct technic. That's very nice to see, how it works. We would highly recommend this class with their great hosts, by the way, you can spend a night at their homestay, which was another wonderful experience to get a great view into local living. Thanks a lot!

We loved this unique experience with a lovely couple. One highlight was the market shopping followed by seeing the most amazing fields of organic veg and herbs growing! We made all our veggie favourites, pancakes, summer rolls, tofu dishes. It was perfectly tailored to me as a vegan and delicious to eat !thank you

We first went to the market and to their vegetable garden. Everything is very fresh and without chemical products inside. The class was very interesting and the food we made was delicious! Definetely recommend!

Good ingredients, good local atmosphere, kind teacher, and fantastic food It was the best experience in Hoian thanks a lot

Learned a lot at this class. Very friendly cook and guide. Local farmers market was interesting just as the vegetable garden. We had a lot of fun. We would have liked to have gotten the vegetarian menu. We had a small class of three people but we would have liked it if the cooking itself would have been a little more elaborate, some things were already prepared that we wanted to do ourselves. All in all it was a very nice cooking class but there were still some rough edges.

Host is very kind, nice and punctual :) I will book this class if I go to Hoian again. Their dogs are so cute and foods really nice, too.