"Choose Your Own Menu" Cooking Class and Market Visit with Apron Up Cooking Class

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You are amazed by the mesmerising authentic Vietnamese food which is not the same in your home country? Take a cooking class to learn the secrets and dazzle in delight your family and friends when you come back home!

Apron Up Cooking Class is the place for you. Here you will get the family handed- down recipes and tips which cannot be found in books or else where. More over, you will be inspired to cooking by the enthusiastic and energetic people here.

We have classes covering the most popular and favoured Vietnamese dishes and alternatives that will adjust to all your desires. This particular class focuses on pure cooking, you will not only learn to cook the dishes you choose, but also learn your classmates' dishes and serve others your fruits of labour and get to taste theirs as well. All in all, it is a fulfilled experience of cooking and tasting Vietnamese food.

Menu

Each person choose one to 2 dishes depending on the number of people in the class ( less than 5 people, each people choose 2 dishes, more than 5 people, each people choose 1 dish and all together choose some more dishes on the day):

Spring roll (with matching dipping sauce)

• Nem rán - Traditional fried spring roll
• Phở cuốn - Fresh beef spring roll
• Gỏi cuốn - Traditional fresh spring roll
• Cuốn lá cải - Fresh kale roll with shrimp and pork
• Nem gà tôm - Fried chicken and shrimp roll (no vegetarian)

Salad

• Nộm đu đủ bò khô - Papaya salad with dried beef
• Nộm hoa chuối thịt gà - Banana blossom salad with chicken
• Gỏi bưởi tôm thịt - Pomelo salad with shrimp and pork
• Nộm rau muống - Morning glory salad
• Nộm dưa chuột - Cucumber salad
• Nộm gà – Chicken and veggie salad

Main

• Phở - Traditional beef noodle soup
• Bún chả - Traditional grilled pork noodle soup
• Bánh đa cá trộn - Fish noodle mixed
• Bún hải sản - Seafood noodle soup (no vegetarian)
• Cơm rang thập cẩm - all flavoured fried rice
• Bánh xèo - Sizzling pancake
• Bún sườn chua - Summer pork rib noodle soup
• Gà xào sả ớt - Stir-fried chicken with lemongrass and chilli
• Gà kho gừng – Clay pot ginger chicken
• Sườn xào chua ngọt - sweet and sour pork rib
• Chả chìa - Pork and shrimp sugarcane wrap
• Bánh tôm - Shrimp potato pancake
• Cà tím nhồi chay - Vegetarian stuffed eggplant
• Bánh mì sốt vang - Beef au vin with baguette
• Phở gà - Traditional chicken noodle soup
• Thịt kho tàu – Caramelized pork
• Gà hạt điều – Chicken with cashew nut and veggies)
• Bò lúc lắc – Beef 5 spices with veggies
• Cá kho tộ - Stew fish 5 spices
• Mực nhồi thịt – stuffed squid

Dessert

• Cà phê trứng - Egg coffee
• Sữa chua nếp cẩm - Black sticky rice yogurt
• Chè hạt sen long nhãn - Lotus longan dessert
• Bánh chuối - Banana pancake with ice-cream
• Trà trái vải - lichee tea
• Kem chuối – banana ice-cream with coconut and peanut
• Hoa quả dầm – Fruit mix dessert Vietnam style
• Bánh chuối hấp – Steamed banana cake

Schema

Morning Schedule

• 8:00 am: We will pick you up from your hotel in or around the old quarter of Hanoi (maximum 3 km from our location)
• 8:30 am: Class begin, visit local market to buy fresh ingredients and learn about them.
• 9:15 am: Have a short break in a local shop, enjoying local coffee or dessert.
• 9:30 am: Head back to the kitchen to start cooking.
• 9:40 am: Everyone prepare their ingredients then take turn to cook in front of other people and serve them with your food.
• 11:00 am: Enjoyed your Amazingly cooked meal and received your cookbook and certificate.
• 12:30 pm: End of class.

Afternoon Schedule

• 2:00 pm: We will pick you up from your hotel in or around the old quarter of Hanoi (maximum 3 km from our location)
• 2:30 pm: Class begin, visit local market to buy fresh ingredients and learn about them.
• 3:15 pm: Have a short break in a local shop, enjoying local coffee or dessert.
• 3:30 pm: Head back to the kitchen to start cooking.
• 3:40 pm: Everyone prepare their ingredients then take turn to cook in front of other people and serve them with your food.
• 4:30 pm: Enjoyed your Amazingly cooked meal and received your cookbook and certificate.
• 6:30 pm: End of class.