Hoi An Cooking Class With Market Tour and Bamboo Basket Boat Ride

About this tour

Learn to cook authentic Vietnamese dishes at Mai Home in Hoi An, where you'll start with a market tour through Tra Que village before returning to the riverside restaurant kitchen. Over six hours, you'll handle fresh local herbs, vegetables, seafood and meat to prepare lunch using the restaurant's own recipes, working alongside an English-speaking instructor in a garden setting overlooking the Co Co river.

Highlights

• Shop Tra Que village market with your guide before cooking
• Prepare lunch using foraged and farmed ingredients together
• Learn restaurant's signature recipes from professional instructors
• Eat what you've cooked with river and garden views
• Bamboo basket boat ride on the Co Co river
• Hotel pickup and drop-off included

What to expect

You'll begin at a local market in Tra Que village, walking through stalls with your English-speaking guide to select ingredients. Back at Mai Home's riverside location, you'll move into the open kitchen and start preparing dishes hands-on—chopping, seasoning, cooking. The instructor demonstrates techniques using the restaurant's own methods, then you plate up and sit down to eat your work. Between cooking and eating, expect a relaxed pace with downtime to absorb the garden and water views.

Good to know

Hotel transfers are included from Hoi An. The boat ride uses traditional bamboo baskets. Wear comfortable clothes you don't mind getting wet or food-splattered. Public transport is available if you prefer. Not suitable for pregnant women or those with spinal or heart conditions.