Experiences Tra Que Vegetable Village & Cooking Class

  • Duration: 4 hours to 5 hours
  • Transport: Private Car/Train/Boat
  • Pick up and drop off: Hotel / Your place
  • Departure Time:
  • Visit location:
from$39/per person

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Tra Que is a charming little village on the edge of Hoi An, the village is named after the sweet scented vegetables that spice up the everyday meals of the Pho Hoi people. Experience a day of living and working with the local people in Tra Que vegetable village, in which you will have a chance to discover the daily life of farmers.

Tra Que vegetable village is a source of fresh vegetables for Hoi An and an interesting stop if you’re cycling towards An Bang beach from the old town. Many of vast number of herbs and vegetables that find their way into Vietnam’s delicious cuisine are grown here. And it’s all said to be organic too.

The people are friendly and the whole place is peaceful and beautiful. There are small tourist eateries and cooking classes run around the garden.

Some in the locals mentioned that the surrounding hotels and other tourist developments are slowly encroaching on garden land. It’s a problem all over Hoi An.

Picking up guests to the market.

– Pick up at hotel lobby (the area of Hoi An) by bike.

– Lead customers to the market: Introducing for guest the dishes will be learn in the cooking class and the ingredients. Guests will visit a lots of sale shops: Fish ( Name of fish and how to cook), vegetables ( Name of vegetables and good methods), meats (Pork, Beef), Spices (name of some spices)…..and Fruits shop.

– Continues to Tra Que herbs village.

Welcome at Tra Que Water Wheel:

– Cold towels

– Welcome drink (Special drink Water Wheel)

  1/ Farming tour: ( Traditional hat and Farmer’s cloth)

– Visit the Vegetable village

– Tour guide will introduce the history of the village

 – Visit the Tra Que herb village and riparian ecosystem of the local people as: (Picked up seaweed to fertilizer for vegetables, visit the ponds, fish, drop buffalo, chicken, duck …)

– Join in plant vegetables together with local farmers. (picking up seaweed, digging, land boarding, making beds, tranplanting vegetables, watering

– Soak foot, relax by some herb in Tra Que vegetable garden after farming tour

   2/ Rice paper making tour:

– Make the fire by yourself, hanging the molds rice paper, pour the water to oven.

– Guestwill be introduce and learn how to wash the rice, soak the rice and grind the rice by traditional methods

– Learn to make rice paper and enjoy your products.

  3/ Cooking class:

    – Guest will learn how to make some flower, animals from tomato, carot, marinated for some local food: Tam Huu, Local Pancake enjoy what you have cooked and some more food in the menu.

 Menu for Lunch

    1/ Tam Huu or Spring rolls

    2/ Local Pancake

    3/ Papaya Salad

    4/ Grilled fish with tomato sauce in banana leaves

    5/ Steamed rice in banana leaves

    6/ Dessert

Return to the hotel.

– Lead guest come back to the hotel. Finish tour.

NOTICE:

  • Departure: 9am or 3pm (can be flexible); Duration: 4-5 hours
  • Inclusions: English speaking Chef, bike, visiting fee, lunch / dinner, special welcome drink, Foat soak
  • Transportation: Scooter with driver or taxi can be aranged instead of bike with additional fees  (case by case)
  • Foot massage: on request (105,000vnd per person)

 

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