Hanoi: Cooking Class & Market Tour with Lunch

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Duration4h 30m

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

The smell of fresh herbs hits you before you see the market stall

You get picked up from your hotel, tour a working Hanoi market with a local guide, then spend a few hours in a cooking class learning to make four traditional Vietnamese dishes from a professional chef. Lunch or dinner is included, along with drinks and fruit, and you eat what you've made before heading back to your hotel.

4h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Cooking class and market tour

Meet chef at meeting point
Discuss menu with chef
Tour local market
Cook four traditional dishes
Enjoy lunch or dinner

The Experience

The morning starts at your hotel in Hanoi's Old Quarter or French Quarter, where a local guide picks you up and walks you straight into a market that's already humming. Vendors are arranging produce, fish is on ice, bundles of mint and cilantro are stacked high. You're not just looking — you're learning what to pick, how to tell if something's ripe, why one vendor's fish matters more than another's. This is the part of a Hanoi cooking class that most people don't expect: the market tour teaches you how to shop like someone who actually lives here, not like a tourist buying ingredients.

After the market, you head to the cooking class kitchen where an experienced English-speaking chef is waiting. The next few hours are hands-on — you're not watching from a stool, you're at the counter making four traditional Vietnamese dishes from scratch. The chef talks through each step, shows you how to hold the knife, explains why the order matters. You'll cook something with the fresh herbs you just picked. By the time you're done, you've made lunch or dinner (depending on which session you book), and you eat what you cooked, with Hanoi beer, soft drinks, coffee, and seasonal fruit on the side.

The whole thing runs half a day — morning or afternoon slots are available every single day. Hotel pickup is included, so you don't need to figure out transport or worry about finding the place. You leave with the actual skills to make these dishes at home, not just a recipe card.

What’s included

Your half-day includes hotel pickup from the Old Quarter or French Quarter, a guided tour of a local Hanoi market, a hands-on cooking class with a professional English-speaking chef where you'll prepare four traditional Vietnamese dishes, lunch or dinner made from what you've cooked, Hanoi beer, herbal welcome drink, soft drinks, coffee, bottled water, seasonal fruit, and snacks.

Good to know

Wheelchair accessibleInfant seats availablePublic transport nearbyNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Blue Butterfly Restaurant & Cooking Class

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn how to cook Vietnamese food properly and understand where the ingredients come from, without spending a full day or arranging your own transport — the market tour and hotel pickup handle both of those for you.