Saigon Cooking Class

Saigon Cooking Class

Saigon Cooking Class
5
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
About
Saigon Cooking Class offers cooking class, street food tour & culinary team building! Our talented Chefs exclusively fluent in English teach classic Vietnamese dishes as well as contemporary, excellent signature recipes. Each participant has his own material and ingredients to follow the Chef step by step and cook his own meal. Our goal is to give you as much as possible for 1 session Vietnamese cooking skills so that you can continue to learn and explore by yourself. For adventurous people hop on the back of ours scooters or go for a walking visit and let our Chef guide you across Saigon's hidden alleys to sample the best of local delicacies. A true feast! From Tuesday till Sunday, cooking class twice a day, street food tour everyday! For companies or large group contact us for unforgettable team building!
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Kaitlyn
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam5 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020 • Couples
This cooking class was the greatest! Especially to learn about the history of each item used before cooking with it. We did 3 dishes, fresh spring rolls, green mango & bbq chicken salad, and lotus fried rice. So so so so yummy! The chef was great with instructing and we added a wine pairing to our meal as well.

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Check out Carr & Kaits on youtube for a short review on it!
Written February 18, 2020
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Paul S
Boston, MA14 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2020 • Couples
We (5 of us) spent a lovely Sunday morning going to a market and then cooking a delicious lunch with Chef Ly. Very clear directions and logistics, and we learned to make - and enjoy! - a wonderful 3-course meal (plus dessert) ourselves. A very worthwhile experience and way to absorb local food culture in HCMC.
(It’s part of the Hoa Tuc Restaurant where we also had an excellent dinner experience earlier in the week.)
Written January 21, 2020
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Mmarymomm
Pleasanton, CA1,653 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Nov 2019 • Couples
We took this cooking class and market tour through Viking. Our guide met us at the market and showed us many of the foods we would be cooking with. At the cooking school we each had a propane cooktop, all the utensils needed to cook, and the ingredients we would need. Our chef was understandable and went through each step. We made a sour soup, a pork and shrimp salad, and chicken in a clay pot. It was fun to eat the food after we cooked it. We were sent home with the recipes in a little booklet. I have made one of the recipes at home. It really is reminiscent of the tastes of Vietnam. I would definitely reccomend doing this!
Written January 9, 2020
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Voyager583488
1 contribution
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2023 • Solo
Be careful when booking with this business that they confirm the correct time of the class. I sent an enquiry to do the class today ( sent it yesterday) at 10 am. They eventually replied yesterday and asked if I could do the 2 pm class. I replied yes. This morning I received an email from them asking to confirm my attendance at 10 am which I did. Quickly reshuffled my day with the family due to the time change. I got to the address at 9.50 and the place was in darkness and locked up. I contacted them thru what’s app! Oh you are booked in for 2 pm. So I screen shot the email and sent it to them. Oh sorry we made mistake. You will have to come back at 2 pm. As this is my last day in this city and had rearranged the day with the family to accommodate the 10 am class there was no way I could go back for the 2 pm class. Lesson here triple check time with them! Their business loss I guess but I was looking forward to it.
Written December 3, 2023
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Dear reviewer, We are sorry that you experienced a bad situation in your booking process however we don't recall facing the situation you described here. I checked all messages from our booking staff and you may have reviewed the wrong colling class. We however would love to have you in our cooking class and have you as a satisfied student! All the best! Ilda
Written December 27, 2023
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464merlot
Seattle, WA68 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020
Market tour was very nice and informative, and also a small group, which made it easier to ask questions. Our guide was friendly and easy to understand. The cooking class was fun and we loved eating what we had cooked. Especially fun was learning not just new foods but also using new cooking tools and frying our own spring rolls and birds nest noodles. The class was run very smoothly with lots of helpers to clean up and keep us on schedule but never felt rushed. Loved the air conditioning, iced tea and recipes to take home at the end.
Written February 24, 2020
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Monica Cottone
Bergamo, Italy5,866 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2023 • Couples
My husband and I attended this cooking class. With the Chef we went to the market to buy fresh products that we would then cook together. The chef spoke English very well. One part of the school had counters where we cut vegetables and made preparations which we then cooked in the other part of the school where there were fires. The menus changed every day.
We prepared three dishes and ate as we cooked, also because cold spreeng rolls are not good.
The chef also showed us the products to use and the super market where we could buy them.
We got the recipes via email
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Written May 1, 2024
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jjessie
Parkdale, Australia113 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2024 • Solo
This was a great experience in Saigon. Joined in the Saigon Cooking Class and Market experience at the last minute and had a terrific morning. My chef and guide through the market was Oanh. She was so much fun and knowledgeable. 3 people (incl myself) did the 1 hour market tour with Oanh and it was most interesting to hear about the market and the food that could be bought. After the 1 hour market tour we were driven (5 mins) back to the cooking school where we were joined by 4 other persons to cook a 3-course meal consisting of pork and mushroom spring rolls, banana blossom and chicken salad and crisp rice flour pancake with prawns, pork and veggies. Everyone had a heap of fun experiencing the cooking and eating of delicious food.
Highly recommended.
Written August 11, 2024
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Laura_et_Matt
Vancouver4 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2012 • Couples
My girlfriend and I were very excited to visit the Saigon Cooking Course given the glowing reviews on TripAdvisor. Unfortunately, we had a really disappointing experience.

Put simply: the value for money is awful. The class size was large: there were 15 of us and only one chef and it was clear that the course had been overbooked (they had to add an extra table, there weren't enough deep fryers for the whole class, etc.). The market tour was perfunctory and was conducted by a hostess, who while nice, explained little about the ingredients or the market itself. And there was very little cooking involved in the course: one of the dishes was pho (noodle soup) which was prepared entirely by the chef. The other two dishes (spring rolls and a salad) just required assembly, as almost all the ingredients were pre-chopped and pre-measured.

Your mileage may vary: if you want a good (but expensive by Vietnamese standards) meal in a nice building, accompanied by a light lesson from a fairly low-level cook, then Saigon Cooking Course is for you.

But if you want to get your hands dirty to prepare a proper Vietnamese meal, if you want to learn about traditional ingredients, Vietnamese markets, and the country's rich culinary history, or if you just want to interact with your chef and have some fun, then Saigon Cooking Course would be a poor choice.

Save your money, take a cooking course somewhere else.
Written January 15, 2013
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dancingqueen11
Avoca Beach, Australia80 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2012 • Friends
My daughter, sister and I booked into this School and it was fantastic right from the start. We all met at the market and was given a guided tour to source our ingredients from rice papers, noodles, the freshest seafood and meat, fresh herbs and spices etc etc etc. Did you know that Vietnam has the freshest meat in the world as well as the best Fish sauce?? We made some great dishes - spring rolls, lotus stem salad and beef in beetle leaves - all prepared and cooked by us. It was so clean and so well organised. It was interesting to sit at a table and meet different people from around the world and share stories as well as eating all our dishes. Our Teacher was fantastic with a great sense of humour and could speak english very well. Would recommend this to anyone who wants to be part of a genuine Vietnamese experience.
Written April 4, 2012
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MJC63
Nashua40 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2012 • Friends
As a working professional chef I can tell you this class is good not only for home cooks but for professionals as well. Vietnam is fast becoming a culinary hot spot and I can think of no better way of learning than taking this hands on cooking class. You don’t sit there and take notes and watch, You roll up your sleeves and learn the right way by preparing and cooking all ingredients you prepare! Chef does a great job of talking about each ingredient, substations and encourages checking for seasoning by tasting all along the way. The staff is friendly, location is easy to find and the class is worth every penny. I only wish they offered more classes. Tip, bring camera, photo each step when possible and sit across from instructor. At the end of the class a great recipe booklet is given for the days class.
Written February 17, 2012
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