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Hanoi Cooking Class Learning 5 Dishes including Banh Xeo

★ 5.0 (167)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Vietnam

Hanoi Cooking Class Learning 5 Dishes including Banh Xeo

Learn to cook five signature Hanoi dishes in 3.5 hours at a cooking school in the Old Quarter. Start with a market tour through the city's largest market to source ingredients, then return to the kitchen to prepare authentic Vietnamese meals from scratch. You'll master techniques for crafting everything from bánh xèo to traditional accompaniments, taste what you've made, and leave with a recipe booklet and certificate. Suited to complete beginners and experienced cooks alike.

Farm To table Experience on an organic hilltop estate in Tuscany

Escape the Florence crowds for a 7.5-hour working day at a family-run organic estate near San Miniato. After a 40-minute train ride from central Florence, you'll tour the vineyard and olive groves, then pick seasonal produce—asparagus, herbs, truffles depending on the time of year—to cook lunch together. Learn how Tuscan cooking strips away pretence and lets quality ingredients speak. Three wines, limoncello and house spirits round out the meal, all enjoyed on the hilltop with views stretching across the countryside.

Saigon Sightseeing & Street Food Tour By scooter with Student

Explore Saigon's backstreets and food stalls by motorbike with a local guide steering while you soak in the sights. This 4-hour tour bypasses the tourist drag and heads into working-class neighbourhoods across districts 3, 5, and 10, plus the warren of Chinatown. You'll taste nine dishes and drinks—from bánh mì to grilled banana—at hole-in-the-wall vendors where locals actually eat. The operator runs the top-rated motorbike outfit in Ho Chi Minh City with over 15,000 customer reviews.

Pizza, Gelato & Suppli Cooking Class by Colosseum

Master three pillars of Italian street food in this three-hour cooking class near the Colosseum. Work alongside a local chef to roll and shape Neapolitan pizza dough, churn silky gelato from scratch, and fry golden supplì—those crispy Roman risotto balls filled with melted cheese. You'll taste everything you make, paired with Italian wines throughout.

Coffee Tour Adventure Antigua Guatemala

When Finn from the crew tried this coffee tour in San Pedro Las Huertas, near Antigua, we got the real deal—a 2–3 hour walk through the foothills of Agua Volcano with a local smallholder farmer who actually grows the stuff. You start in the village centre, clock the traditional pila where locals still wash clothes daily, then trek uphill through volcanic soil thick with coffee plants, maize, and wild growth. The payoff is doing the full roast-to-cup process yourself—grinding beans, firing up the roaster, brewing your own cup—before you can buy direct from the farmer. It's proper rural Guatemala, not a tourist factory.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $66

Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Gwangjang Market Food Tour (11 Tastings)

★ 5.0 (159)

🍜 Food & Cooking

South Korea

Seoul Vegan & Vegetarian Gwangjang Market Food Tour (11 Tastings)

When Noah from our team ran this Seoul tour, he took us through Gwangjang Market—a proper working market that moves fast and smells like a dozen different meals at once—tasting 11+ fully plant-based dishes cooked by vendors who know their stuff. Noah spent weeks before launch mapping out which stalls could do vegan and vegetarian food safely, talking through ingredients with each cook. The whole thing takes 2 hours and everything's included in the price. It's the kind of tour built because someone actually needed it: Noah's vegetarian family visited Seoul and couldn't figure out what was safe to eat in the markets, so he solved that problem and kept refining it. Both vegans and vegetarians leave full and confident they weren't eating hidden fish sauce.

Royal Seoul Cooking Class in a 100-Year-Old Hanok

When Charlie from our team rocked up to this 100-year-old hanok in central Seoul, we weren't expecting a cooking class that felt more like a mate's kitchen than a tourist operation. You'll learn to make royal Korean dishes — LA galbi, fresh kimchi, pajeon, and more — in a proper residential home with a certified instructor. The whole thing runs 2 hours 15 minutes, max six people, so it's intimate and genuinely low-pressure. You cook, you eat what you've made on traditional bangjja plates, and you get a real sense of how Korean home cooking actually works, not the polished version.

Kamananui Cacao Orchard Tour

When Em from our team visited Kamananui Cacao Orchard on the Big Island, we got a proper look at how cacao grows in Hawaii's volcanic soil—and tasted the chocolate made right here. The 90-minute tour walks through working orchards shaded by taller trees, stopping to see how the pods are harvested and processed. It's a quieter, hands-on experience than the usual tourist circuit, set in lush farmland where you can actually smell the difference between fermented beans and roasted chocolate. Groups are small and mixed, mostly people genuinely curious about where their chocolate comes from.

Hoi An Eco Cooking Class With Kien Nguyen Cooking

Spend five hours cooking Vietnamese country food in Hoi An's countryside with Chef Kien Nguyen. You'll start at a bustling local market to source ingredients directly from vendors, then head to a rural kitchen where you'll prepare and eat lunch together. A basket boat ride through the water coconut forest rounds out the experience, giving you both kitchen skills and a genuine taste of village life beyond the tourist centre.

Private Tour of Kentucky's Small Batch Bourbon Distilleries

When Charlie from our team ran this private bourbon tour near Louisville, we hit three small-batch distilleries across 10 hours without worrying about driving home. It's the kind of outing that works best with mates keen to taste properly — no designated-driver awkwardness, just your group and a guide moving through Kentucky's whiskey country at your own pace. The region around Louisville draws serious bourbon fans and casual drinkers alike, and these smaller operations feel less theme-park than the big names. You'll get behind the scenes at each spot, taste straight from the barrel, and get a genuine sense of how small-batch bourbon actually gets made.

10 hoursfrom AUD $1766

★ 5.0 (154)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Costa Rica

Costa Rica The Chela Cooking Experience

When Maz from the crew rolled up to Doña Chela's place in Costa Rica, we weren't expecting much more than a quick cookery lesson — but what unfolded was two hours in a proper working kitchen, firing up traditional dishes over actual wood. Doña Chela walks you through her garden-to-table routine: picking ingredients, prepping them the old-school way, then cooking over an open flame in a setup that's been doing things this way for decades. You'll knock out a típico (that's the local married — rice, beans, plantain, salad, protein) and drink something fresh from the garden. It's stripped-back, genuine, and tastes like home cooking because it is.

Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike

Explore Ho Chi Minh City's back streets and food stalls by motorbike, stopping to eat and drink where locals do. This 3.5-hour tour weaves through Districts 1, 3, 4, 5 and 10, covering neighbourhood eateries, street vendors, and quietly significant landmarks. Your English-speaking driver handles the bike while you take in the chaos, flavours, and rhythm of the city. All food, drinks, and transport are included; pickup and drop-off anywhere in central districts or at the Opera House.

Riverside Thai Cooking Class in Khao Lak with Market Tour

Spend four hours at a riverside cooking school in Khao Lak learning to prepare Thai dishes from chef Apple, with views over the town's waterway. Pick either the morning session (includes a local market tour) or afternoon option (finishes with a traditional sweet dessert). The school supplies all ingredients, English-language guidance, and hotel transfers. Minimum two participants required.

Rural Hoi An Cycling, Cooking Class at Organic Farm

Pedal out from Hoi An's bustling centre into quiet countryside, stopping at Tra Que's working vegetable plots to get hands dirty planting and harvesting. Ride past rice paddies, browse a local market, then cook lunch with farm-fresh ingredients in a small group of no more than ten. You'll also paddle a traditional basket boat and pick up some Vietnamese along the way. Four hours total.

Authentic Beachfront Mexican Cooking Class Cafe Jaguar Costa Maya

When Alex from our team ran this cooking class at Cafe Jaguar, we found it struck a rare balance: you're actually learning hands-on Mexican technique (comal work, proper Al Pastor marinade) rather than just watching a demo, and you get to eat what you've made with the Caribbean lapping a few metres away. It's a 2-hour session starting from the Mahahual pier, designed so you're not rushing back to your ship. The cafe sits beachfront, the vibe is relaxed rather than touristy, and afterwards you can use their lockers, grab a proper drink, and spend the afternoon swimming or wandering the local boardwalk without the usual port-tour stress.

Authentic Food Tour in Agadir - Eat Like A Local

When Mia from our Global Hobo crew ran this food tour in Agadir, she ate her way through a proper cross-section of Moroccan home cooking—not the tourist-trap versions. You'll start at a local restaurant, weave through specialty shops picking up ingredients and stories, then finish in your guide's family home where his mum has cooked a spread of 12+ dishes: slow-cooked tagines, the spiced meat-and-fruit mrouzia, hearty harira soup, crispy briouats, and sweets with proper Moroccan mint tea. It's intimate (groups capped at 8), four hours total, and leans heavily on the 'why' behind each dish rather than just the 'what.' Vegetarians are catered for.

Alleyway Food Tour

When Alex from our Global Hobo crew ran this alleyway food tour through old Calcutta, we threaded past century-old street stalls with Soham, a local who knows every corner and vendor by name. The tour leans hard on the genuine — not the Instagram spots, but the eateries where locals actually eat, tucked into narrow lanes and rooftops that feel worlds away from the tourist drag. Over three hours, we worked through roughly 8 savoury dishes (veg and non-veg options both catered for) and four desserts, plus afternoon and evening tea, building a real picture of how Calcutta's old quarters tick. It's a walker's tour through living neighbourhoods, not a museum run.

Vegan Walking Tour in Saigon Discover Hidden Flavors

When Charlie from our team did this vegan walking tour in Saigon, we got a genuine feel for how locals actually eat in the city's hidden corners. Spring, who runs the tour, steers clear of famous-tourist-trap dishes and instead takes you through alleyways, old apartment blocks, and neighbourhood markets sampling naturally vegan comfort food — bánh xèo, chả giò, bánh bèo, and more depending on what vendors have on the day. It's three hours on foot with around 7,000 steps, plenty of eating stops, and a personal vegan Vietnam guide sent afterwards. The whole thing reads less like a structured tour and more like wandering with a friend who knows where the good food is.

Make pasta, drink wine. Cooking class with transported included!

Roll up your sleeves and learn to shape pasta the way locals have for generations in Salento, Italy. This four-hour class puts you hands-on with dough, teaching techniques you'll actually use at home. You'll craft two pasta styles from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside regional wines and Salento antipasti. Transport is included, and the small-group setup means genuine conversation with your hosts—not rushed instruction.

Cooking class Amalfi Coast by Marco and Tano

Learn to cook Amalfi Coast classics with Marco and Tano, two local chefs working from their kitchen in Scala. Over four hours, you'll forage for lemons and eggs from their garden, then prepare fresh pasta, pizza, and regional desserts from scratch. Finish by eating what you've made on a terrace overlooking the coastline, with local wine and homemade limoncello included.

Private Traditional Sri Lankan Cooking Class in Kandy with Hotel Transfers

When Ngaio from the crew signed up for this cooking class in Kandy, she was paired with Chitra, a proper hands-on instructor who walks you through Sri Lankan curries without the tourist theatre. You'll learn to build flavour from scratch — lentils, jackfruit, the lot — then sit down to eat what you've made alongside a handful of other travellers. The whole thing runs three hours, transfers included, and Chitra's got vegan and gluten-free sorted if you need it. It's the kind of intimate food class that actually teaches you something you can replicate at home.

Private Homemade Meal with a Private Chef in Rome

Cook a two-and-a-half-hour meal with a Rome-based chef whose traditional Italian recipes have earned global recognition. Work through several dishes side by side in a home kitchen, learning techniques rooted in family tradition and regional history. You'll prep, cook, and sit down to eat what you've made, with the option to take away the recipes or purchase the chef's published collection of family narratives and dishes.

Local Women Lead Nepali Cooking Class

When Delphine from the crew rocked up to Namaste Cooking School in Thamel, she found herself in a proper working kitchen run by local women who actually know their stuff. This isn't theatre — it's a four-hour dive into real Nepali home cooking, sourced straight from farmers who supply the school. You'll prep and cook dishes that represent the actual food people eat in the Himalaya, then sit down and eat what you've made. The school's tucked in the heart of Thamel, so zero faff getting there, and you'll finish the morning with a full belly and a genuine feel for how Nepal's culinary traditions actually work.

Hoi An Street Food Tour - Eat like a local - PRIVATE TOUR

Explore Hoi An's culinary scene on a guided evening tour through the Old Town's backstreets, stopping at neighbourhood food stalls and local restaurants favoured by residents. Over three to four hours, you'll taste multiple dishes and drinks whilst learning the stories behind Hoi An's most distinctive flavours. A private tour with hotel pickup, local English-speaking guide, and all food included.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $65

DaNang Farm-to-Table Cooking Class with Market and Coffee Tasting

★ 5.0 (137)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Vietnam

DaNang Farm-to-Table Cooking Class with Market and Coffee Tasting

Start in Da Nang's vegetable gardens where farmers grow what you'll cook, then browse a bustling neighbourhood market to select ingredients yourself. You'll taste locally roasted Vietnamese coffee before heading to a home kitchen where a local cook walks you through preparing traditional dishes from scratch. Four and a half hours, small groups, everything provided—you leave with skills and a meal you've made.

Kalamata- Olive oil & Wine Tour with traditional lunch

When Jake from our team ran this half-day tour around Kalamata, we got the real deal on why this corner of Greece matters: olive oil and wine, full stop. You'll start with a stroll through 13th-century olive groves at Androusa Castle, then move into a multi-awarded winery and a working mill where the guides actually show you how oil goes from fruit to bottle. The tour finishes with tastings of three oils and wines, paired with small Greek mezedes and a proper lunch with local wine and dessert. It's four hours of genuine production knowledge wrapped around food, no fluff.

Empanada Making Class in Buenos Aires

When Lily from our Global Hobo crew took this empanada class in Buenos Aires, she spent three and a half hours in a local's home learning to roll, fill, and fold dough from scratch. The neighbourhood is quiet and residential—the kind of place where you actually get a sense of how porteños live day-to-day. You'll work alongside your host, get properly flour-dusted, taste mate the way locals do, and walk away with the skill to make empanadas at home. It's hands-on, unpretentious, and centred on real cooking rather than performance.

Lima Food Tour & Market Experience: 13 Peruvian Bites

When Delphine from the Global Hobo crew did this Lima food tour, she got the real deal — not the Instagram version. You'll walk through the chaotic, genuine heart of the city: Central Market, Mesa Redonda, Barrios Altos, and Chinatown. Over four hours, you'll taste 13 authentic Peruvian dishes at street stalls and family-run spots that locals actually eat at. It's crowded, loud, and wonderfully unpolished — the kind of place where you'll see vendors shouting, kids playing, and the smell of grilled meat mixing with fresh ceviche. Your guide knows the city intimately and steers you toward the best bites.

Traditional Oaxaca Cooking Class with Local Chef

When Ben from our team took this Oaxaca cooking class, we spent three and a half hours in a local chef's kitchen learning to build three regional dishes from scratch. The setup feels intimate — you're cooking alongside someone who knows the food deeply, not watching from a stool. Oaxaca's food scene is serious business: moles that take days, fresh tortillas pressed by hand, regional salsas that change block to block. This class sits you right in that world, with time to actually get your hands dirty and taste everything you've made at the end.

Chinatown–Little Italy Food Adventure

When Alex from our team did this Chinatown–Little Italy food walk in New York, it felt like being let in on a proper local secret. You start at a meeting point in Chinatown and spend two hours eating your way through these two historic neighbourhoods with a guide who actually knows the spot — the narrow streets, the family stories, the graft that built the area. It's less museum-piece and more 'this is where New Yorkers actually eat', and the guide strings together the history as you go from stall to shop to hole-in-the-wall. Meals are included; bring an appetite and an open mind.

Tracey's Farmhouse Kitchen - Traditional Bread Making Experience

When Ben from our team rocked up to Tracey's farmhouse in the UK, we found ourselves in a proper working kitchen doing something dead simple but brilliant — making Irish griddle breads. You start with tea and homemade treats (fresh soda fruit bannock, hand-rolled butters, local jams), then tie on an apron and learn to work soda, wheaten, and potato breads from scratch. The whole thing takes two and a half hours, and you're working alongside locals and other visitors in Tracey's home kitchen, so the chat's genuine and the pace feels unhurried. You take home a big bag of what you've baked, plus the recipes.

Paris Private Food Tour – Taste 8+ French Classics in Le Marais

A 3.5-hour walking tour through Le Marais sampling over eight French staples, from flaky pastries and crusty breads to falafel, cheese, and wine. You'll navigate medieval streets and Place des Vosges whilst stopping at neighbourhood spots—including the legendary café where Jim Morrison lingered—to taste croque-monsieurs, a surprise dish, artisan chocolates, and macarons. History and hunger drive the route as much as the food itself.

Chania Food Stories Half-Day Tour inc. tastings & drinks

When Alex from our team ran this half-day walking tour through Chania, it became clear why the Old Town punches above its weight as a food destination. You're walking through tight Venetian and Ottoman-era streets with a local guide who actually knows the shopkeepers and artisans, stopping to taste raki, mezedes, phyllo fresh from a pastry master's hands, and locally-made olive oil and honey. It's a proper cultural deep-dive dressed up as a food tour—you'll learn why the "Street of the Knives" exists and meet the last remaining traditional knife makers. Four hours moves at a steady pace through neighbourhoods most tourists miss, and the vibe is small-group intimate rather than coach-tour rushed.

Private Mexican Cooking Class with Gastronomic Historian, Lucia

When Alex from our Global Hobo crew rolled up to Lucía's home kitchen in Mexico City, we found ourselves in exactly the kind of cooking experience that feels more like a mate's place than a commercial setup. Lucía, a gastronomic historian with generations of family recipes in her back pocket, walks you through three hours of hands-on cooking—think meatballs in smoky chipotle sauce, cactus soups, or chile en nogada depending on the season. The menu shifts with what's fresh and local, and you finish by eating what you've made together. It's intimate, seasonal, and built around what Lucía's cooking that day, not a fixed script.

1 hour Egg Coffee Cooking Class with Snack and Local Instructor

Learn to brew and top Vietnam's signature egg coffee in a relaxed one-hour session with a local instructor. You'll whisk the frothy egg mixture, pour your own brew, and adjust sweetness to taste, finishing with a spring roll and fresh cup. Small group sizes mean genuine interaction and hands-on guidance rather than passive observation. The instructor shares which beans are worth taking home and explains why this drink matters to Vietnamese coffee culture.

Hoi An Food Tour: 12+ Back Street Tasting, Bike/ Motorbike Option

This three-hour food tour through Hoi An's back alleys introduces you to 12+ dishes at neighbourhood establishments where locals actually eat. Your guide reveals how each plate connects to the town's history as a Southeast Asian trading hub and its distinctive culinary traditions. Groups stay small—maximum six people—so you'll move at a conversational pace rather than as a herded crowd. Water and snacks come included; you'll leave fuller and with a clearer sense of what shaped Hoi An's food culture.

Valle de Guadalupe winery and brewery tours

When Mia from our team ran the Valle de Guadalupe winery and brewery tour, we got a proper 10-hour swing through Mexico's wine country with private transport thrown in. The valley's a working producer region—rows of vines, craft breweries tucked into converted spaces, wineries ranging from boutique to established. The outfit sources a pre-set itinerary or builds one with you beforehand if you've got specific spots in mind. It's geared toward people who want to taste properly and eat well, so you're moving between tasting rooms and food spots at a pace that lets the region actually sink in. Mixed-fitness groups go here, and the whole vibe is less tour-bus spectacle, more deliberate route-planning.

10 hoursfrom AUD $632

Chiang Mai 4WD Hilltribe Coffee: Jungle Trek, Roast & Brew.

★ 5.0 (127)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Thailand

Chiang Mai 4WD Hilltribe Coffee: Jungle Trek, Roast & Brew.

A full-day 4WD expedition from Chiang Mai into remote Karen hill-tribe territory, where you'll plant coffee seedlings, hand-roast beans over an open fire, and brew pour-overs with the farmers themselves. The eight to ten hours combines genuine off-road driving with meaningful work on functioning coffee plots, finishing with a vegetarian lunch made from village-grown ingredients. You'll leave with coffee you roasted and a clearer picture of where specialty beans actually come from.

8 hours – 10 hoursfrom AUD $169

Hanoi Cooking Class in a Haven of Tranquility - Thom culinary

★ 5.0 (127)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Vietnam

Hanoi Cooking Class in a Haven of Tranquility - Thom culinary

This 4.5-hour Hanoi cooking class centres on a peaceful garden compound where you'll cook four authentic Vietnamese dishes from scratch under your host's guidance. You'll harvest herbs and tropical fruit, visit three bustling neighbourhood markets, taste street food, and explore a family worship hall. The experience includes homemade desserts, herbal drinks, and rice wine, plus cyclo transport throughout.

Cozy Tokyo Class: Ramen, Sushi, Sake Pairing & Cultural Exchange

Cook two staple Japanese dishes—ramen from scratch and handmade sushi or gyoza—alongside a Japanese host in a Tokyo kitchen. Over three hours, you'll build each element thoughtfully: noodle dough, broth balance, knife skills for fish or filling prep. Sake pairings arrive between courses with context on why each bottle suits the food. The group stays small enough that conversation flows naturally, and you leave with techniques that actually stick.

3 hoursfrom AUD $179

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