Thứ Sáu, 7 tháng 12, 2012

The Best Cooking Class in Vietnam

Great cooking class in ho chi minh city
HCM Cooking Class is unique & healthy cooking class in the world to teach you how to cook combining food and medicine as well as discover Vietnamese food culture – one of the healthiest cuisines worldwide. Coming to our class, you will visit the most beautiful Vietnamese medicine garden with plenty of kinds of herbs, spices and vegetables. Moreover, you will find out how to grow many kinds of mushroom in Mushroom house and understand Vietnamese herbs and spices’s influence for medicine and cooking after listening our pharmacist and chef explaining. Specially, taking on great challenges by becoming the real Vietnamese farmer on the Vietnamese traditional hat, you will try to remember, identify and select exactly kinds of vegetables in the Vietnamese Medicine Garden for cooking class & cooking show. With the fresh - picked vegetables, our friendly chefs will instruct you how to use these ingredients to cook Vietnamese traditional dishes.
For Cooking show, you will have great time to see our professional chefs show their amazing cooking skills.


›› HCM Cooking Class Schedule
We provide 2 optional schedules
Visiting places Option 1
(9am-1pm)
Option 2
(2pm-5pm)
Vietnamese Medicine Garden/Mushroom house 9am - 10am 2pm - 3pm
Hands-on cooking class/Cooking show 10am - 1pm 3pm - 5pm

Amazing Trips with Cu Chi Tunnels and Fishing Challenges



Cu Chi Tunnels – Fishing Challenges –BBQ, Lunch Time –Bonsai and Animals Farm $18/pax (not include transport, Cu Chi Tunnels Fees, free ice teas and mineral water, napkin)

Start 8:00am HCM City –Cu Chi Tunnels at 9:30 am

   -   Visit Cu Chi Tunnels (not include entrance fees $4) (9:30am -11:30am)
·         Watching a presentation video
·         Getting to see the tunnels and discover how these tunnels were constructed and how its habitants combat two forces: the invading troops and the tunnels itself.
·         Visiting Hoang Cam's smoke-less store, secret hide-outs, fighting bunkers, and many dangerous booby traps.
·         Trying gun shooting with real bullets (fees not included)
·         Tasting boiled tapioca, drinking hot tea.
-         Fishing challenges  and enjoy lunch time at 12:00pm -2:00pm
·         Divide big group 80 people into 6 groups in 6 different fishing houses (red team, green team, pink team, yellow team, black team and white team)
·         Choosing team leader for each group
·         Provide 80 fishing cods  and paste for each customer
·         Timing challenges for 30 minutes
·         Count number fishes they have done
·         Rewards with nice souvenirs and fishing certificate for the group won
·         BBQ with fishes that they have done and enjoy nice menu option from the Cassava root restaurant 
Menu option
Option 1:
  1. Special Cassava root spring rolls
  2. Stir- fry Thien Ly Flower with seafood
  3. Fried chicken wings with butter sauce
  4. Special fried rice
  5. Seafood combination soup (hot pot on candle station)
  6. Fruits
Option 2:
  1. Special clams with Cassava Root Spring rolls
  2. Prawns with mayonnaise sauce
  3. Stir-fry squid with shitake mushroom sauce
  4. Special seafood fried rice
  5. Seafood soup ( hot pot on candle station)
  6. Fruits 
Option 3:
  1. Special Blanched Cu Chi Beef with rice paper roll
  2. Beef salad
  3. Stew baby fish with steam rice on clay pot
  4. Chicken wings with fish sauce
  5. Mushroom and flowers soup ( hot pot on candle station)
  6. Fruits
Option 4:
  1. Stew  baby fish with rice paper
  2. Special cassava root spring rolls
  3. Smoke beef fillet
  4. Crab and seafood soup (hot pot on candle station)
  5. fruits
Option 5:
  1. Special cassava root spring rolls
  2. Stew baby fish with steam rice on clay pot
  3. Stir-fry beef with Thien Ly Flower
  4. Ox Tail Beef with rice soup
  5. Lotus salad with stomach pork
  6. Fruits
-         Visit Biggest Bonsai ,Animals Farm (2:15pm-3:15pm )
·         Discover thousand Bonsai, Orchid, Kumquat, Cau, and many kind of plants for office, companies and projection
·         Discover huge fish about 120 kg and many big fishes, many kind of birds, chicken, dog, tortoise ….

The Best Program in Ho Chi Minh City

Great ways to warm up your family with team building cooking class in ho chi minh city



 Program 4: Teambuilding cooking class –cooking show –bonsai animals Farm $28/pax (8-20 people),Great time with friend ,family and colleagues
-          Start Ho Chi Minh 8:00 am – Ho Chi Minh Cooking Class 9:30 am

+ Visit Vietnamese Medicine Garden, Mushroom House (9:30am-10:30am)
·         Divide big group into small group  and find down team leader in each group (1 chef will lead the group with team leader )

·         Understanding how vegetables and mushroom  use  for medicine and cooking
·         Understanding  the basic ways to make mushroom and baby ingredients
·         Picking up vegetables and Mushroom use for cooking
            + Team Building cooking class and cooking show (10:30am -12:30pm)
·                     Demonstration the dish on front of customers
·                     Give Out Recipes for team Leader
·                     Team Leader will divide different jobs for their members
·                     The group will image with all ingredients that they have and try to work as fast as they can follow the timing and will use all their skills to do the best decoration and best flavour following by cooking mission and their images  in  each group
·                     Each chef will mark opposite their team and find down which group win following score card about fastest ,best decoration ,best flavour
·                     Listening  and see the professional chef  to show up their skills and  cook for you  3 dishes and 1 desserts  and then  enjoying what chef has done for you
·                     Congratulations time with feedback from chef and receive nice certificate with recipes  and  some souvenirs  with group won

-          Visit Cu Chi Tunnels (not include entrance fees $4)(12:45pm -2:30pm)
      
·         Watching a presentation video
·         Getting to see the tunnels and discover how these tunnels were constructed and how its habitants combat two forces: the invading troops and the tunnels itself.
·         Visiting Hoang Cam's smoke-less store, secret hide-outs, fighting bunkers, and many dangerous booby traps.
·         Trying gun shooting with real bullets (fees not included)
·         Tasting boiled tapioca, drinking hot tea.
-          Visit Biggest Bonsai ,Animals Farm (3:00pm-4:00pm )
·         Discover thousand Bonsai, Orchid, Kumquat, Cau, and many kind of plants for office, companies and projection
·         Discover huge fish about 120 kg and many big fishes, many kind of birds, chicken, dog, tortoise ….


The Tour will be the end on Ho Chi Minh City about 5:00pm

Discover Vietnamese cuisine in Cu chi



Program 3: Cooking class – bonsai, animals farm (1-10 people) $34/pax,
-Start HCM city 7:30am – Ho Chi Minh cooking class 9:00 am

+ Visit Vietnamese Medicine Garden, Mushroom House (9:00am-10:00am)
·         Understanding how vegetables and mushroom  use  for medicine and cooking
·         Understanding  the basic ways to make mushroom and baby ingredients
·         Picking up vegetables and Mushroom use for cooking
            + Hands on cooking class and cooking show (10:00am -1:00pm)
·         Hands on cooking class with 3 dishes , 1 desserts   and enjoy what you have done
·         Congratulations time with feedback from chef and receive nice certificate with recipes

-          Visit Cu Chi Tunnels (not include entrance fees $4)(1:00pm -2:45pm)
      
·         Watching a presentation video
·         Getting to see the tunnels and discover how these tunnels were constructed and how its habitants combat two forces: the invading troops and the tunnels itself.
·         Visiting Hoang Cam's smoke-less store, secret hide-outs, fighting bunkers, and many dangerous booby traps.
·         Trying gun shooting with real bullets (fees not included)
·         Tasting boiled tapioca, drinking hot tea.
-          Visit Biggest Bonsai ,Animals Farm (3:15pm-4:15pm )
·         Discover thousand Bonsai, Orchid, Kumquat, Cau, and many kind of plants for office, companies and projection
·         Discover huge fish about 120 kg and many big fishes, many kind of birds, chicken, dog, tortoise ….


The Tour will Be the end on Ho Chi Minh City about 5:30pm

Amazing cooking tour in Ho Chi Minh City



Program 2: cooking class- cooking show –cu chi tunnels –Bonsai, animals Farm $35/pax (1-10people)wonderful trrip with cooking class in ho chi minh city

-          Start HCM City 7:30 am – Ho chi Minh Cooking class 9:00am
+ Visit Vietnamese Medicine Garden, Mushroom House (9:00am-10:00am)
·         Understanding how vegetables and mushroom  use  for medicine and cooking
·         Understanding  the basic ways to make mushroom and baby ingredients
·         Picking up vegetables and Mushroom use for cooking
            + Hands on cooking class and cooking show (10:00am -12:30pm)
·         Hands on cooking class with 1 dishes and enjoy what you have done
·         Listening  and see the professional chef  to show up their skills and  cook for you  3 dishes and 1 desserts  and then  enjoying what chef has done for you
·         Congratulations time with feedback from chef and receive nice certificate with recipes
Menu
Customers cooking option:
·         Vietnamese rice paper roll with prawn and pork or mustards leaves roll with prawn or salad
Cooking show from professional chef show up from fronts of customers
·         Chicken wings with salt and pepper (famous from Melbourne
·         Magazine 2011)
·         Chicken mushrooms soups 
·         Combination salad
·         Stew pork spare rip  or snake head fish with ginger, lemongrass, and Vietnamese basil on clay pot 
·         Steam rice
·         Surprise desserts (on the garden)

-          Visit Cu Chi Tunnels (not include entrance fees $4)(12:45pm -2:15pm)
      
·         Watching a presentation video
·         Getting to see the tunnels and discover how these tunnels were constructed and how its habitants combat two forces: the invading troops and the tunnels itself.
·         Visiting Hoang Cam's smoke-less store, secret hide-outs, fighting bunkers, and many dangerous booby traps.
·         Trying gun shooting with real bullets (fees not included)
·         Tasting boiled tapioca, drinking hot tea.
-          Visit Biggest Bonsai ,Animals Farm (2:45pm-4:00pm )
·         Discover thousand Bonsai, Orchid, Kumquat, Cau, and many kind of plants for office, companies and projection
·         Discover huge fish about 120 kg and many big fishes, many kind of birds, chicken, dog, tortoise ….


The Tour will be the end on Ho Chi Minh City about 5:00pm

Great time to enjoy HCM cooking class Program



Welcome to Special Program from Ho Chi Minh Cooking Class

Option 1:$15/pax =315.000vnd
Start HCM City at 7:30-9:00am (Ho Chi Minh Cooking Class)
-Visit Vietnamese Medicine garden Mushroom House 9:00am-10:00am
   + Discover 70 different kinds of herbs and spices and understanding how it uses for medicine and how it uses for cooking
  + Discover how can you grow up ingredients which basic ways
  + Discover the basic process to making mushroom and understanding what’s benefit of making mushroom and how it uses for cooking
- Visit Cu Chi Tunnels 10:15:00am-12:00am
                 +Watching a presentation video
                 +Getting to see the tunnels and discover how these tunnels were constructed and how its habitants combat two forces: the invading troops and the tunnels itself.
                 +Visiting Hoang Cam's smoke-less store, secret hide-outs, fighting bunkers, and many dangerous booby traps.
                 +Trying gun shooting with real bullets (fees not included)
                 +Tasting boiled tapioca, drinking hot tea.

- Lunch on Cassava Root Restaurant 12:00pm -1:00pmor 12:30 -1:30pm
     Set menu:
  1. pork spare rip with sweet and sour sauce 
  2. Fried omelette rolls with mushroom
  3. Tofu with salted and pepper sauce
  4. Snapper with xi muoi sauce
  5. Bitter melon soup with Thac Lac fish
  6. Steam rice
  7. fruits
Or
  1. Stew snakehead fish in clay pot
  2. Fried chicken wings with fish sauce
  3. Stir-fry broccoli with clams
  4. Fresh prawn with gourds soup
  5. Fried baby diamond fish
  6. Steam rice
  7. Fruits
Or
  1. Chicken wings with chilli and lemongrass
  2. Tofu with tomato sauce
  3. Blanched Mixed vegetables with egg dipping sauce
  4. Pork mice with  green cabbage soup
  5. Steam rice
  6. Fruits
-  Visit Biggest Bonsai and animals Farm 1:45pm- 3:00pm
      + Discover thousand Bonsai, Orchid, Kumquat, Cau, and many kind of plants for office, companies and projection
      + Discover huge fish about 120 kg and many big fishes, many kind of birds, chicken, dog, tortoise ….
The Journey will finish about 3:00pm
Option 2:$11/pax =231000vnd
Start HCM City at 7:30-9:00am (Ho Chi Minh Cooking Class)
Great time to discover Vietnamese culture & Cuisine & History

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Medicinal Properties
A braised vegetable is very familiar and indispensable in a sour soup of the Southern people. It grows wild in ponds, canals, ditches and very easy to grow in food.
Today many families have looked braised vegetables to earn more income. Besides the above benefits, braised vegetables and herbs are also a heat effect only concept, detoxification target barrel, increasing the force the kidneys, increase urine output, to facilitate the sending stone. In traditional medicine, braised vegetables and spicy, slightly acrid, the cool, fragrant. But modern medicine in the study, braised vegetables contain essential oils, flavonoids, tannins should work targets inflammatory, diuretic, treatment hematuria, haemorrhage. Particularly braised root vegetables have the effect of muscle relaxants organs such as colon, kidney, thus reducing the effect of abdominal pain, etc ... In addition, braised vegetables can also be used to treat skin diseases, runny nose, kidney stones, cough, snake bites.
  Braised vegetables washed, cut fresh chunk doses from 15-30gr, excellent drinking water daily to treat cough, runny nose. For the case of kidney stones, use 20gr - 30gr fresh braised vegetables, pound, add 300 ml of cooled boiled water, drinking water daily chat.

Skin Treatment: Use pound braised vegetables, squeezed juice, apply on skin lesions associated braised vegetable cooking water to wash every day.

Treat poisonous snake bites:
- Use the 15gr braised vegetables
- 25gr radial joint
Pound little extra white wine, juiced drinks

2. Use in food
braised-vegetable   Braised vegetables can also use for topping or garnish to make more flavor such as Vietnamese traditional beef noodle soup, sour soup with pineapple, tamarind, okra, sour soup with tofu, lily stems, tomatoes and pineapple.

›› Recipe
  Sour-soup-with-pineapple  
  Sour soup with pineapple (serves 4)
 

I. Ingredients

• 1,6 l water
• 140g Night-scented Lily stem
• 2 tbsp of salt (for Night-scented Lily stem’s marinade)
• 240g okra (lady finger) (about 8 pieces)
• 120g bean sprouts root off
• 320g tomato wedge skin off (about 2 pieces)
• 160g peeled pineapple
• 160g tamarind paste
• 8 leaves of each (braised vegetable and long coriander)
• 4 tsp of sugar
• 4 tbsp of fish sauce
• 1 tsp of chopped garlic
• Cooking oil




 
II. Direction

• Skin off the Night-scented Lily stems, cut in bias of 4 to 5cm long. Marinate it with 2 tbsp of salt for 5 minutes and then rinse off the salt with fresh water. Set aside.
• Peel the tomatoes, cut in 8 wedges. Cut in bias the okra (keep the seeds). Cut roughly the pineapple in pieces of about 2cm.
• In a pot saute the garlic with oil until fragrant and then add the water, bring to a boil.
• Place tamarind in the strainer with hand, deep in boiling water. Use chopsticks to stir the tamarind until dissolved into boiling water (about 2 minutes) and then take out tamarind seed.
• Add in Night-scented Lily stems, okra, bean sprouts, pineapple and tomatoes. Bring to a boil during about 3 minutes.
• Seasoning with fish sauce and sugar. Taste and adjust at your convenience. Turn of the fire.
• Take out from heat transfers to a soup bowl and top with braised vegetable and long coriander.
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