Culinaric tour

A foray through Hanoi's markets, cookshops and Vietnamese diversity

Yes, the market culture is still alive here. Under scantily stitched tarpaulins, the farmers spread out all their paradisiacal bounty: crisp herbs and salads, neatly cut meat from chicken, beef, pork and dog, but also sweet and strange-smelling sauces. Take a break from the German cash register ringing in the supermarkets and experience how a Vietnamese variety of food is proclaimed for sale at archaic-looking producers' markets without any nouveau riche frills. Here, a mango is still fruit, not fruit-like hard goods.

Learn about the "Cola Chicken" that tourists usually turn their noses up at and therefore miss out on the "precursor to paradise." Watch apprentice bakers conjure up recognizable figures on your cakes as if Confucius had taught them personally. And sample the power of Chinese medicine in a traditional pharmacy.

There's a saying in Vietnam that "the best food is on the street," which is why, according to taste, we eat "bun cha" at Grandma Thu's, or a "pho ga" at a cookshop. No appetite-suppressing folklore gastronomy, but with love prepared food with which not only a Vietnamese family feels good.

At the same time you will learn something about politics, religion and the social coexistence in the tunnel houses during this tour, as it were between the courses, or with a cup of Vietnamese coffee.

When the tour comes to an end, we will visit a restaurant that combines the triad of pleasant atmosphere, good service, and handcrafted excellent food to the highest.

For those who would like to cook in advance, take a look at: http://vietnam-cooking-experience.com.

A cooking course can be booked separately the following day.