Saigon Center Culinary Experience: Chef Vu Cooking Class and Market Tour with Cyclo Pick-Up

Embark on a culinary adventure in Saigon with Chef Vu’s cooking class and market tour. Learn essential kitchen skills, choose fresh ingredients at Ben Thanh market, and cook delicious Vietnamese dishes. Finish off with a delightful egg coffee dessert.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • 133 Nguyễn Du - 8:00 AM: Pick-up from the hotel for a 30-minute cyclo ride.
    8:30 AM: Arrive at the meeting point for the training session, preparing for the market trip. Here, participants will select the menu to cook together.
    8:45 AM: Begin the market trip with a tour guide, practicing how to pay in Dong, bargaining with local vendors, and…
What's Included
  • Pick up service by cyclo (hotels located within district 1 and 3 area)
  • 30-minute cyclo trip
  • Visit Ben Thanh market
  • Chef’s direction, recipes
  • Cooking ingredients
  • Lunch
  • Mineral water, the best ice-cream in Saigon
  • English speaking tour guide
  • Certificates
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Meal Options
  • Egg coffee
  • Pancake
  • Fried Spring rolls
  • Chicken noodles soup
  • Papaya salad
Additional Information

Pick-up at 8AM: Guests who stay at hotel within district 1 and district 3 area.Cyclo drivers pick you up at hotels at 8AM. Please provide your hotel address/room no/whatsapp no in your booking.
You will get 30-minute cyclo trip
Meet-up at 8.00AM: Guests who stay other districts, please come to my place at Cyclo Resto: 133 Nguyen Du street, Ben Thanh…

Location
133 Nguyễn Du
Nguyễn Du
We offer pick up service in district 1 and district 3 Guests living outside pick up area. Pleae come to meeting point. Please provide your whatsapp no in booking. So we contact you easily.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Explorer806692
Jun 24, 2025
Wonderful Experience - The cooking class with Chef Vu was a wonderful and great experienced. He patiently explains the slicing & cooking techniques, discuss well the ingredients and shares his knowledge how to create a delicious dishes. This activity is a must try and recommended while in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Brian_j
Jun 18, 2025
Awesome Day Of Cooking - Awesome experience! Chef Vu was so knowledgeable and friendly - we actually learned a lot! Nice touch is they pick you up from your hotel on cyclops… Highly recommend!
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Sachsa20
Jun 3, 2025
Amazing tour! - This was incredible! It was so awesome to tour the market with a local and see the interactions. Chef Vu was incredible! He taught us knife skills, flipping skills while having plenty of fun along the way. The food was PHENOMENAL. Can’t recommend this enough!
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Fionamj4654sx
May 7, 2025
Cooking with gas, highly recommend - Cyclo trip was interesting and something to experience at least once!! The market visit and guide was fantastic. It was interesting to see how fresh all the food was. Chef Vu was enthusiastic to teach. It was just my husband and i in the class so we had all of Chef Vu's attention. We learnt some new skills which we will take home with us. The food we learnt to cook was fantastic and fresh. Highly recommend.
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Shravani_g
Apr 30, 2025
Memorable cooking class in Saigon - Chef Vu’s class was fun. Learnt some interesting techniques and food. Especially enjoyed the pork ribs, the other items we learnt were also so much fun and interesting. Also learnt knife skills and learnt some food decoration skills
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Rumjhumchatterjee08
Apr 7, 2025
A great experience! - Chef Vu was very organized, friendly and made the whole cooking experience, even for those who have never cooked, very enjoyable. Starting with the visit to the market to buy the ingredients for the cooking was a good initiation. We loved the time with Chef Vu.
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Vaidekia
Apr 6, 2025
Cooking with Vu!! - We’re two female travellers and were really keen to learn how to cook Vietnamese food and this class with Vu was everything we hoped for! Since we were travelling without kids this time, we finally had the chance to do something just for ourselves, and we’re so glad we chose this. The experience started with a short and scenic cyclo ride through the city, they even picked us up from a spot we chose, which made it super convenient. Then we headed to a local market to pick up fresh ingredients, which was a great way to get a feel for the local life. The cooking lesson itself was simple, hands-on, and well-organised. Vu made everything easy to follow, and we had a lot of fun cooking (and tasting!) delicious dishes like pho, Vietnamese pancake, pumpkin flower stuffed with pork and shrimp mince, and morning glory stir fry. We even got to try our hand at vegetable carving. so much fun! Highly recommend this class for anyone keen on authentic Vietnamese cooking in a relaxed, friendly setting. Thanks Vu for a lovely day!
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Vasilikin621
Mar 25, 2025
AMAZING COOKING CLASS! - The most amazing cooking class! Chef Vu and all the staff were absolutely fantastic. Firendly, welcoming , so helpful and supporting during the cooking class. Our day started with a very pleasant morning tour of the city on cyclo with two so friendly guides. Our market shopping was entertaining and when we arrived at our cooking class, everything was already set up for us. Four delicious dishes, made easy for us. We all felt like top class cooks thanks to chef Vu! Our day finished with a fantastic cup of egg coffee! The recipes were sent to us via email. Highly recommended class! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Voyage244156
Mar 21, 2025
Fantastic cooking class with cyclo and market visit - A super morning! It was an experience to travel in a Cyclo in the crazy traffic and see some of the sights on the way. The visit to the market was interesting too. The highlight was definitely meeting and cooking with Chef Vu. We made chicken with lemon grass, deep fried pumpkin flowers stuffed with pork and shrimp, morning glory with garlic and crispy pancakes. His instructions made it fun and easy to follow. Everything was so tasty! We even had a go at making decorative tomatoes and cucumber which I have to say I failed at! This was all washed down with a lovely egg coffee. Loved every minute, thank you.?
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N3600ghpeterr
Feb 26, 2025
A good culinary experience - A very good culinary experience overseen by the Vu the chef. It was definitely authentic Vietnamese food that we prepared and enjoyed. I would recommend this experience to others as it was good value and the food was yummy
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From $46
up to 12 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).