VIETNAM
Who visits us?
Of special interest to chefs, foodies as well as foreigners living in Hanoi - a night tour, for night owls or early risers only. Visit the chaotic wholesale market, where stallholders from wet markets, restaurants and other businesses stock up for the day. Fruit and vegetables come in from provinces all over Vietnam and from China, arriving in trucks from 1am. Meat, poultry and seafood comes in around 4am. It’s a tough place to work and the alleyways are narrow and full of people busy earning their livelihoods. Many workers are from poor rural areas and send money home to their families. It is a very different experience to a local wet market. Visitors need to be aware this is a place of business, it’s not for the faint hearted.
What to do here?
From the wholesale market you also visit a local market and the spice market at Cho Dong Xuan, coffee and several street food venues, tasting the dishes and learning about their history, from market to plate.
Top 3 reasons to visit
- Wholesale market tour & street foods
- Local market tour & steet foods
- Local market & cooking classes
Our Story
Chef Duyen ' Home Cooking Classes & Tours
Chef Duyên was born Hai Duong province in the North of Vietnam , she learnt everything she knows about Northern Vietnamese cuisine from her mother when she was 8 years old , Later she to Hanoi from 1999 and worked Long Biên whole sale market at night over two years before she attended culinary college to perfect her skills, founded home cooking class to share the chance to Tourists to Hanoi who would like learn how to cook famous Vietnamese dishes with a fully trained Chef in the comfort of her own home. She said in my experience this is a truly a unique way to get to know how Vietnamese live in today’s world, and how our food is a big part of our culture, family life and social upbringing teach children to cook and the food brings people together and is central to family life. In this experience you can choose the best home cooking classes & market tour that suits your time frame and food interest. If you have any particular food allergies or intolerances Chef Duyen can accommodate these if you can advise her when you book. This is a fun activity for the whole family including kids as you will enjoy the fun of making food like you have never tasted before. Chef Duyen appeared alongside Gordan Ramsey in his TV hit Ramsay's Asian Adventures and the menu for her cooking class was Gordan Ramsey did it on TV With Chef Duyen you will get to explore the more popular streets with locals, which have that very buzz of activity that Hanoi is renowned for. So if you would like experience hanoi street food tour is the best for you to choice Chef Duyen morning / evening whole sale market tour & street food tour with her when you are staying in Hanoi You will get to visit the Long Bien market to see the atmosphere of daily life, and how the locals work hard at the night market. This is a big market supporting all the farmers in Vietnam from the south and the north of Vietnam, with exported fruits, flowers and locally grown product. It’s a hub of activity so make sure to bring your camera
Your chef and tour guide for this experience is Chef Duyen who will pick you up from your hotel then take you to visit the local market and show you around her own neighbourhood. You will get the chance to meet local people and enjoy local activities within a friendly neighbourhood setting. You will experience cooking & eating outside people’s houses and watch how produce is sold at local markets. Because the Chef has good English speaking skills the Chef will explain to you about the Vietnam vegetables / herbs and ingredients Vietnamese used for cooking. Then, the thing that makes this extra special, is Chef Duyen invites you to her home which is not so far from a famous Long Biên bridge & the local market . It is here you will get to experience a very homely ‘hands on’ cooking class facilitated by Chef Duyen. You will learnhow to make some of these local delicacies. You will find out more about Vietnamese cuisine and experience the flavours and tastes all the foods after chef duyen show you how to you did in the class and enjoy with beer for yourself in the comfortable home of local Hanoian, 🍀🍀🍀 Menu choices: Dishes from my Countryside: • Caramel Pork • Banana Flower Salad with Chicken • Fried Spring Rolls • Dipping Sauce • Sweet Coconut Soup with Taro (Che) Hanoi Favourites: • West Lake Prawn Cakes • Green Papaya Salad • Bun Cha • Dipping Sauce with Pickles • Pho Cuon • Sweet Coconut Soup with Corn, Jackfruit &Taro (Che) Vietnamese Vegan Dishes: • Tofu Pillows in Tomato Sauce • Banana Flower Salad • Vegeatrian beef noodle soup ( Pho bò chay ) • Vegetarian Fried Spring Rolls • Vegan Dipping Sauce