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If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Into The Kitchen

Ho Chi Minh City | 2010-04-17 | 22:14:00

It was an early start to our second day, and for good reason; we had booked ourselves onto a cooking class with the intention of learning some classic Vietnamese dishes, and part of the experience was visiting a local market to source fresh ingredients for use in our studies. After a quick breakfast at the nearby Sozo cafe, we met by our guide, a young law student with excellent English called Lieu, who whisked us off by taxi to meet our teacher for the morning.

After negotiating our way through rush-hour traffic, we found ourselves at a quieter back-street, and to the house of our teacher, a retired microbiology lecturer who whisked us off to the nearby market to gather produce. We’ve visited Vietnamese markets before, and this was no different; noisy, colourful and barely any space to move, with just about every food item you could possibly want all fresh that day. Obviously well versed in the art of market shopping, our teacher whipped from stall to stall purchasing ingredients, stopping only to show us the interesting stuff (including fresh noodles sold by weight; why can’t we get these at home?).

Returning to the house, we proceeded to prepare all the stuff that we’d ... (more)

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