Sapa foods Traditional Cooking Class – Vietnamese Banh Mi, Spring Rolls

Take sapa foods traditional Vietnamese cooking your homestay for a memorable experience in SaPa.

After arriving at your homestay around 3 PM, you first have time for a rest and a shower before the evening sapa foods cooking class starts at 4PM. In the class, one of our local Hmong ethnic minority women will teach you how to make delicious Vietnamese Spring Rolls and the Hmong’s traditional sticky rice. You will enjoy the spring rolls and sticky rice with the other dishes prepared by your homestay for your evening meal. In the morning cooking class, your local cook will show you how to prepare a traditional Vietnamese Banh Mi for breakfast before you start the day’s trek. We will give you a copy of the recipes so that you can recreate the dishes when you get home!

We choose local people to run our sapa foods traditional cooking classes to share our culture with you and to create job opportunities and a source of income for our local minority people.

If you are vegetarian or vegan, please select the vegetarian or vegan option when you book.

 

Dish 1: Hmong Sticky rice.

Sticky rice is normally white. The local people go to the forest to collect special herbal plants to dye the sticky rice different colours like purple, red and yellow. The colour and taste depends on the season as it depends on the which herbal plants are in the forest.

Your local sapa foods traditional cook will show you how to dye the sticky rice different colours like yellow, purple or red depending on the season when you take your class.

 

Dish 2: Vietnamese Spring Roll.

After finishing cooking the Hmong sticky rice, our local cook will show you how to make a spring roll.

 

Dish 3: Vietnamese cooking Banh Mi.

The next morning at 8 AM our local cook will show you how to prepare Vietnamese Banh Mi, which you will then have for your breakfast. Banh Mi is very popular for breakfast in Vietnam and is a traditional Vietnamese breakfast.

 

Included in your sapa foods cooking lesson.

A: A local Chef guiding you in the cooking lesson.

B: Utensils and ingredients 

C: Apron and hat

D: Your meal will consist of other various dishes by the family in the homestay.

 

Not included in your sapa foods cooking lesson.

A Soft drinks and Beverages

B: Snacks