Vietnamese Cooking Class: Traditional Stilt House Experience

Join a Bay Mau Cooking Class: market tour, basket boat ride, and cook authentic Vietnamese dishes in a scenic riverside stilt house.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Bay Mau Cooking Tour - Get creative and discover the authentic way to prepare Vietnamese food with this cooking class in Hoi An. Make 4 tasty dishes with your chef while sipping on free water and passion fruit juice.
    Pick up all the secrets of great Vietnamese cooking as you are shown how to pound and separate rice, grind rice to make rice milk,…
What's Included
  • Pickup and drop-off at the Hoi An
  • Market visit
  • Basket boat trip
  • All Ingredients
  • Have Lunch or dinner
  • Unlimited mineral water
  • Unlimited passion juice
  • Chopstick souvenirs
  • English speaking Chef-guide
Meal Options
  • Vietnamese Style Noodles with Beef or Chicken
  • Rice Pancakes
  • Southern-style Beef Vermicelli – Bun Bo Nam Bo
  • Vietnamese Salad Rolls – Goi Cuon
  • Passion Fruit Juice
Additional Information

Experience cooking local dishes in a traditional stilt house with this immersive cooking class. Learn how to make delicious local food, including the famous Pho soup, with all ingredients provided. Unleash your inner chef as you prepare Vietnamese food the traditional way. Discover exciting and authentic recipes as you cook 4 delicious courses. Use…

Location
Hoian Eco Coconut Tour
Trần Nhân Tông
Behind of Cua Dai Bridge and from Hoi An old town to here 10 minutes
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Moonthalia
Aug 28, 2025
Trangs tour - Highly recommend this half day adventure. Trang was our guide & cooking teacher - truly wonderful & inclusive lady. We had a wonderful time cooking 4 great traditional dishes after shopping together at the market. Coconut boats are fantastic fun too
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H7390hjtarab
Aug 7, 2025
Authentic local cooking class - We had a great time at Bay Mau cooking class and would highly recommend! First they take you to a local market to buy all the food for the class fresh. You then make four different local dishes, all very fun to make and very delicious to eat! We then went on the coconut boats at the end of the day. It was such a fun class and really interesting to learn how to make some of the local cuisine. Our guide, Trang, was very good at explaining how to cook each meal and was overall so friendly and lovely. Thank you!
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Robbieh810
Aug 7, 2025
Brilliant guide and chef - Absolutely fantastic afternoon. Trang, our teacher and guide, was very friendly and gave us very clear instructions and help where needed. We started in the market, getting the fresh food we needed, spent a few hours cooking 4 dishes, and then had a fun boat ride after.
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Olivia
Aug 7, 2025
A fun day with amazing Hơn! - Thank you Hơn - We had an amazing day today with you showing us the market, taking us to the boats, and teaching us delicious food. We can go home and cook yummy Vietnamese food when we miss Vietnam now!! You are an amazing teacher and we had a great day. Tour size was 12 people which was not too big or too small. The coconut boats were surprisingly very fun. The market was very interesting. Thank you to all of the staff at Bay Mau for the amazing hospitality too 💗
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A9674wjrachele
Jul 27, 2025
Highly recommend!!!! - Chef Hon took us through the market to shop for our ingredients and was careful to explain what everything was and how Vietnamese people use various fruits and vegetables. He was patient with our photography endeavors and made sure to remember everyone’s names. Our group of 8 was friendly and we all got to know each other. Chef Hon taught us all so much and the class was very hands on. He is an incredible teacher. I highly recommend this experience. It was one of the most fun things we did while in Hoi An!
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Gemma
Jul 19, 2025
An absolute must, for cooks and non-cooks alike, if in the Hoi An area! - An amazing, must-do activity if you're in Hoi An! Our guide and chef was Kieu and she was just wonderful! On the visit to the market Kieu was showing and explaining the different ingredients and how they're made/what we'd be using them for, which made the cooking part so much more interesting, knowing that we'd been to get the ingredients ourselves. I was dubious about the basket boats (after seeing clips of people spinning around nearly going over the edge), but that's is optional and it was actually really fun. I'm so pleased it was included because I wouldn't have done it otherwise and I'd have missed a great experience. The cooking class - obviously the main event - was just brilliant. Kieu demonstrated and explained each step very carefully and then wandered around to help if needed. Everything was meticulously organised after each dish (we made 4!!), as we watched the next demonstration, all of the utensils/ingredients were magically replaced, ready for us to attempt the next food. The setting was lovely - on the water, with the basket boats going along in the background and there were fans everywhere (it's obviously still hot - you're cooking in Vietnam - but they helped a lot). At the end, all of the recipes were sent to us digitally and we were kindly gifted a pair of cooking chopsticks. Thank you so much to Kieu for making this experience so enjoyable - I would recommend it to anyone (even people like me, who can't really cook)!
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Jmr0967
Jul 17, 2025
Great cooking tour - What a great morning. Hon was an awesome guide, funny, knowledgeable, patient and kind. It was a very hot steamy day but Hon tried to keep us comfortable for the duration. The basket boat ride was hilarious and a bit of fun but the cooking part was fabulous. Everything provided and step by step instructions. The food was delicious and fresh and very authentic. Great day was had by all and thank you Hon for making it so memorable, you rock.
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592regand
Jul 15, 2025
Awesome experience! - Great experience and the food was amazing! More than just cooking, market visit and boat ride as well was lots of fun. Our tour guide/chef was amazing! Very knowledgeable and easy to understand instructions. Would recommend!
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Brigitteby1721um
Jul 12, 2025
Worth the visit. - Trang was an excellent host and chef, collecting us from the hotel, taking us to the market and later demonstrating four regional courses followed by good instructional guidance. The rice pancakes were particularly good. The basket boat experience was touristy and busy but still enjoyable.
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V6706qopeterp
Jul 4, 2025
Great family fun - A great day. To cook authentic cuisine with my family was an awesome experience. Shopping first for ingredients at local market was brilliant. Coconut boats fun for the kids but I wasn't that fussed on it. Our guide and chef was Tran who was wonderful. She did such a great job catering to the kids who had a go at everything. A lovely lady who engaged and made the morning great fun for us. Thanks Tran
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From $27
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).