Hoi An Market Visit and Cooking Class with Eco Tour

Your guide will pick you up at the hotel around 8:15am – 8:30am. Then, you will transfer to the local market with your chef where you will spend about 1-hour to see and experience the lively action as well as enjoy direct contact with sellers of local produce and meats. Your chef will show the ingredients and its use which will be shown in your cooking lesson. Also, you will learn some tips about the “bargaining“ custom in Vietnam.

Next, transfer to Cam Thanh village. Here, you will stop at a quaint ancient cemetery and see houses built with water palm leaves as you explore many Vietnam countryside by boat. Encounter and meet many warmhearted local people en-route to your next destination. Learn how to sail a basket boat and join a boat race competition. Moreover, your tour guide will show how to catch fish by rods and special nets to catch purple crabs.

Continue rowing via basket boat through the small, beautiful channels. While traversing the channels, enter into the water coco palm forest and see the coconut trees growing together. Here, you will enjoy some water coconut fruit as well as being able to have your guide take a product from the trees as a souvenir for yourself if you wish.

After eco trip, you will stop at a restaurant and join a cooking class with your chef. The 2-hour cooking class will teach you how to prepare and cook local foods and share valuable information about Vietnam's cooking style. The menu will include: deep fried spring rolls, Papaya salad with shrimp cracker, Pork or fish in clay pot with steamed rice, Banh Xeo (rice pancake with fresh salad) and seasonal fruit.

After the class you will savor the foods you have prepared and enjoy a little extra time to rest before returning to Hoi An with a souvenir.