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,

 Great Ways to discover Vietnamese Cuisine in Cu Chi

-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 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 (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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Medicinal Properties

Nutrition in green mustard include: vitamin A, B, C, K, acid nicotic, catoten , albumin ... Cabbage nutrition experts recommend as many health benefits as well as for effective disease prevention. Nutrition in cabbage include: vitamin A, B, C, K, acid nicotic, catoten, albumin ... Cabbage nutrition experts recommend as many health benefits as well as for effective disease prevention. Sore throat with green mustard seeds Stalks and leaves of green mustard used as vegetables, besides the particles have positive effects in healing: sore throat, cough, pimples, hemorrhoids, the evidence welding style... They use green mustard seeds to cure softened by a pound of powder or mixed with water then bring alcohol ... drugs used to cover or apply to the sore area until healed. Sore throat: Use green pound mustard seed, then puree in a little water, stirring the slurry, using up the most part, bands. Also green mustard seeds are used to treat back pain, spinal pain, diarrhoea.   Gout treatment with mustard green vegetables Formed by a gout diet more foods rich in energy especially meats, heart, liver, heart or other types of seafood, Adult males more susceptible to gout, increasing age the incidence of this disease more and more (over 65). It can be said of gout occur in men than in women. In addition to diet to avoid foods high in purines organs of animals and fish, patients are recommended for patients is rich in vegetables, the effects of excreted uric acid disease. By drinking green mustard cooked daily water changes, which are meant to help drain out uric acid, gout prevention is also very effective. Anti-aging: For these foods, dark green vegetables such as green mustard, the higher vitamin, folic acid supply required for blood cells, skin ruddy chestnuts and fresh. In the vegetables of their wealth in general and mustard green vegetables in particular are rich in antioxidants tissues. So every day should be used from 200gr - 300gr mustard green vegetables in your diet to get younger. Also works to help skin fresh, green mustard is used to treat the prevention for men.

2. Use in food

Green mustard can do for stir-fry, soup, mustard leaves roll with crunchy vegetable, prawn, Vietnamese pancake, mustard leaves soup with prawn and so on.

›› Recipe   Mustard leaves roll with crunchy vegetables & shrimps (serves 8 rolls)   I. Ingredients  • 4 tbsp of Kumquat juice Ÿ • 4 tbsp of sugar Ÿ • 4 tsp of fish sauce Ÿ • 1/2 tbsp of chopped garlic Ÿ • 1/2 tbsp of chopped red chili Mix all ingredients until sugar is dissolved, then add the chopped garlic and chili. Rice Vinegar Ÿ • 2 tbsp of rice vinegar Ÿ • 1 tbsp of sugar Ÿ • 1/2 tsp of salt Mix all ingredients until the sugar is dissolved Prawns • 8 prawns strung on wooden stick • Boiled the prawns in salted water, then peel and set aside Vegetables Ÿ • 50g lotus stems, cleaned and cut into 5 cm lengths Ÿ • 50g ‘Bon Bon’ stems, sliced in 5cm lengths Ÿ • 50g dry ‘Tien Vua’ soaked in water until soft & cut into 5 cm lengths Ÿ • 50g ‘cu hu dua’ (palm heart), thinly sliced in 5cm lengths Ÿ • 40g onion, finely sliced Ÿ • 40g carrot thinly sliced Ÿ • 30g minced fresh mint Ÿ • 30g minced fresh Vietnamese basil Ÿ • 40g whole cashews Ÿ • 10g stir-fried shallots  • To prepare the vegetable dressing, mix half of the sweet and sour fish sauce with the rice vinegar. Keep the leftovers of sweet and sour fish sauce as a dipping sauce.  • Mix all crunchy vegetables, leaves, fried shallots and cashews with all the dressing prepared as above about 5 minutes, then drain and set aside   II. Direction Rolls Ÿ• 300g crunchy vegetables (first part of the recipe) Ÿ• 8 boiled prawns Ÿ• 8 mustard leaves Ÿ• 8 whole spring onions blanched until soft for fastening Ÿ• Sweet and sour fish sauce for dip • Divided the vegetables in 8 parts. • On a plate place a spring onion under the mustard leaf and then add 1 part of the garniture and wrapped. • Top each roll with a prawn and tie the roll securely with a spring onion. Serve fresh with a bowl of sweet and sour fish sauce as a dipping sauce.

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Medicinal Properties

According agree: bearded anti-inflammatory effects downstream gas, stimulate digestion, except welding style, active blood poison. It has been used in folk such as the following cases: - Full stomach distension sluggish digestion using a handful of laksa leaves crushed clean drinking water squeezed. - Nasal flu: a handful of bearded, ginger 3 slices, 20g laksa leaves, 20g shiso leaves 16g marjoram, 16g calamus, 10g chuanxiong and 10g angelica .Combination all of them inside the pot .slow cook about half hour and drink it - Snake bite treatment: a handful of crushed mustache juiced drink to the victim. Residue cover on where the wound bandaged jack (to do sooner or good results)   - Diarrhoea, abdominal pain due to cold: 16g laksa leaves (dried), white Atractylodes 12g, 16g marjoram, 12g wage Jiang, 10g cinnamon, 4g ginger, 4g baking powder. Pour 2 cup of water, 1 cup of sharp longer. Day in 2 divided doses. - Feet of drinking water: mustache crushed up on where to get hurt. Or crushed spots where water remains sore. Day 2 time (keep the wound will dry to prevent multiple infections) - Acne is the stage pointed mustache outline a handful, a few grains of salt. Two crushed, boil up into bands. Day1. This method for all cases of pimples, pressure will is in the early stages. Effects: Anti-inflammatory, blood work, poison. Note: Mustache has very practical applications in everyday life. So each family should plant a small crowd in the garden where near water.

2. Use in food

Vietnamese mint can use for different kind of cooking such as deep fryer spring roll, salad, rice soup with fish, duck egg, …

›› Recipe   Lotus stems salad with prawn and pork (serves 4)   I. Ingredients Dressing Ÿ •1 tbsp sugar Ÿ •1 tbsp lemon juice Ÿ •1 tbsp fish sauce Ÿ •1 tsp water Ÿ •½ tsp of chili and garlic (A pinch of salt optional) Salad Ÿ •150g pickled or fresh carrot Ÿ •200g lotus stem, washed and cut into 5 cm lengths Ÿ •150g shrimps, deveined, cooked and peeled Ÿ •100g lean pork, cooked and thinly sliced Ÿ •½ onion, peeled and thinly sliced  •1 tbsp Vietnamese mint leaves, finely chopped Garnishing Ÿ •1 tbsp unsalted Crushed peanuts (groundnuts) Ÿ •1 tsp Fried shallots Ÿ •Shrimp crackers, deed fried: optional   II. Direction Dressing • In a bowl adding lemon juice, sugar, warm water and fish sauce. Whisk until the sugar is dissolved completely • Then add about ½ tea spoon of chopped chili and garlic. Taste it first and adjust with salt, chili or garlic as your convenience. Salad • Combine all salad ingredients prepare as above and mix well. • Add salad dressing and toss gently. • Arrange the salad on a serving plate. Garnish with crushed peanuts and fried shallots. Serve immediately with the fish sauce and shrimp crackers on the side.

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Amazing food in Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnam Basil

Medicinal Properties

According to Oriental medicine, spicy, aroma, the warmth of basil can stimulate absorption, sweating, diuretic, blood loss and pain relief. According to book Dictionary of medicinal plants in Vietnam, Dr. Vo Van Chi said: The whole plant contains essential oil (0.02 to 0.08%), at the highest levels of flowering plants. Basil essential oils contain strong anti-chemical oxygen can slow the aging process. They also help prevent certain cancers, prevent the growth of some bacteria and fight inflammation. In addition, this oil has the ability to protect the body before the onset of toxic elements from the environment, mental relaxation, stress, depression and a therapeutic skin care, hair moisturizer. Basil leaves used to treat runny nose, headache, stomach pain, bloating, poor digestion, enteritis, diarrhoea. It is also used to treat irregular menstruation, reduce bruising injuries, arthritis, organ matching. Everyday, you only need 10g -15g dry tree, excellent for drinking water. Pounding out fresh leaves, wash up or cook out, treat snake bites, insect stings, eczema, dermatitis. After birth, the mother is not enough milk for breastfeeding, basil leaves can get excellent drinking water, use 2 cups/day. Basil leaves work very well stimulate milk. It can also help in reducing feelings of fatigue, anorexia after strenuous work, you get soaked basil leaves in boiling water for about 10 minutes to drink. If it’s hard to drink, you can add a little honey.   Your breath smells better if you chew hard living basil leaves. With basil flowers, you should be harvested, dried for use as needed. Flowers are good for people with neurological diseases, children less sleep, adults with headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, sore throat and cough, pertussis children. Break a little dried leaves and flowers to get water, drink 3 cups a day. Eating basil fruit to treat pink eye, corneal opacity. Leaves, flowers, fruits, nuts basil mixing together is the best way to treat rashes, allergies. You just crushed drinking water and rubbing the residue taken up sore. In addition, basil is also cooked and mouth mouthwash to treat toothache, tooth decay. On using 10g - 25g fresh or dried leaves Not only are spices, medicinal plants close to life, basil is also an "enemy" of the insect. For mosquitoes, you can grow basil around the house. If many mosquitoes in the house, you get some basil leaves burning on fire. This scent will make mosquitoes quickly withdrew. A bunch of basil hung over the kitchen window or a pot of basil in the windowsill will deter flies. Dried basil is used for its fragrance in potpourris and sachets. It is also used in herbal bath mixtures and add luster to the hair. Basil seeds: When soaked in water, the seeds of several basil varieties become gelatinous and are used in Asian drinks and desserts.

2. Use in food

Vietnamese basil is one of the ingredients for many kinds of cooking such as spring roll, salad, Vietnamese traditional beef noodles soup and so on. It is best used fresh and added only during the last few minutes of cooking.

›› Recipe    HCM Cooking class will be your life option   HCM Fried Spring Rolls (30rolls)   I. Ingredients • 500g lean minced pork • 20g fresh shrimp minced • 30 rice paper sheets(or a bit more in case you break a few) • 4 tbsp minced shallots (about 6 shallots) • 4 dried wood ear fungus soaked in water until soft and sliced (50g) • 50g dried glass noodles soaked in water until soft, drained, then cut into 5cm lengths • 1 carrot cut in julienne • 1/2 tsp pepper • 3 tbsp of fish sauce • Vegetable oil for the deep-frying • 1 bunch of several leaves: Vietnamese basil, Shiso leaves (purple mint), mint leaves (lemon mint) & green lettuce leaves • Fish sauce for dipping   II. Direction • Make the filling first by combining all ingredients in a large bowl and mixing until well blended, set aside. • To make the fried rolls wet a little bit the rice paper and smooth it with your fingers. • Place 2½ heaping tbsp of the filling onto the rice paper. Fold one end of the wrapper over the filling, then fold the 2 sides parallel and roll up tightly, pressing to seal. Repeat until all ingredients are used up. • Heat the oil in a wok over medium heat until hot. Deep- fry the rolls a few at a time for about 5 minutes each until golden brown on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. • Place the fried rolls on a serving platter and serve with the lettuce, leaves and fish sauce on the side.