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Experience local life market tour & home cooking experience from Ho Chi Minh | Half-day tour by motorbike

Go to the local market on a motorbike to buy ingredients and try your hand at making home-cooked meals at a typical Vietnamese home. Enjoy the food you made for lunch. This is a half-day tour accompanied by a Japanese guide, where you can experience local experiences that cannot be enjoyed by sightseeing.

About this tour

Go for a special local experience that can only be found in Ho Chi Minh City.
First, you will visit a local market and experience Vietnamese food culture while actually selecting fresh ingredients.
After that, we visited local families and tried making home-cooked meals.
Enjoy cooking dishes that are popular in Vietnam, such as fresh spring rolls, boiled fish, and stir-fried water spinach, with the locals.
There is no need to worry even if it is your first time as the Japanese guide will provide full support.
You can enjoy the cooked food as it is for lunch.
This is an experiential tour where you can experience the real life and warmth of Vietnam, which cannot be experienced through sightseeing alone.
<Recommended points>
✔ Real experience of buying ingredients at the market
✔ Valuable opportunity to visit local households
✔ You can make Vietnamese home cooking by yourself
✔ Enjoy the food you prepared as lunch on the spot
✔ Peace of mind with a Japanese guide
✔ Easy schedule for half-day participation
✔ Deeply understand food culture
✔ “Experiential travel” that is different from tourism

Schedule

09:00

We will pick you up at your hotel.

09:30

Stop at the market and buy ingredients

10:00

Vietnamese home cooking experience
Visit a local's home and enjoy cooking home-cooked meals together.
*A Japanese guide will interpret.
You can enjoy the dishes you have prepared for lunch.
Menu
1) Fresh spring rolls         
2) Boiled fish (depending on stock availability, the dish may be changed to sweet and spicy boiled pork and eggs, grilled chicken with lemon grass, etc.).
3) Stir-fried water spinach with garlic    
4) Tomato soup         
5) Dessert + iced stay

13:00

We will drop you off at your hotel.

Included items/Precautions

Included

Transportation to and from hotels in central Ho Chi Minh City (Districts 1 and 3), Japanese guide, cooking experience fee, ingredients

What is not included

Personal expenses

Notes

※Notes:
-Tour schedule may be changed or canceled depending on weather, traffic conditions, etc.
・Depending on the reservation status of the cooking class, it may not be possible to arrange it.

Accommodation/gathering information

Pick up time/location

Pick up time/location

Cancellation Policy for This Tour

  • Free up to 2 days before the participation date, 100% charge up to 1 day before the participation date. In addition, 100% charge will be made for no-shows due to non-participation.
  • Free up to 2 days before the participation date, 100% charge up to 1 day before the participation date. In addition, 100% charge will be made for no-shows due to non-participation.
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