HOIAN town with RED BRIDGE VIETNAMESE COOKING CLASS - BOAT RIDE and WALKING TOUR

You will be picked up at hotel to the meeing point where we will join the class to venture into Hoi An market to purchase necessary ingredients for the cooking course. Accompanied by your chef and guide, you'll have the leisure to discover all the varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, meat and fish which are sold at the market. This will give you a better understanding about the habits of Hoianien’s consumption preferences.

 After visiting the market, we board the Red Bridge boat for a leisurely cruise (25 minutes) along the Hoi An River to the Red Bridge Cooking School. This is a chance to view local river life, so make sure your camera is handy. On arrival, we explore the cooking school’s herb garden, before learning about some of Hoi An’s and Vietnam’s well-known dishes. The cooking lesson runs for about 2 hours – the Red Bridge chefs first demonstrate each dish before we prepare the same dish ourselves. Included in the class is a brief introduction to Vietnamese food carving (plate decoration). After the lesson, we sit down and eat what we have cooked.

 We get back the town in the afternoon and explore the heritage Hoian town on foot. Hoian, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, where is packed with buildings of historical and cultural significance, and boasts a number of streets that are off-limits to cars. Stroll past the many Chinese Assembly Halls, from the Cantonese Chinese Congregation with its impressive main altar, to the Hainan Chinese Congregation, which serves as a memorial to 107 merchants from Hainan Island who were mistaken for pirates and killed during the reign of Emperor Tu Duc. Stop by the Japanese Covered Bridge, which was constructed in the 1590s by the town’s Japanese community to link them with the Chinese quarters across the stream….We take you back the hotel after tour.