Visitors to Ho Chi Minh City can learn how to cook time-honored dishes by taking a cooking course offered by many of the big hotels here.
For visitors to Phu Quoc Island in southern Kien Giang Province, courses are offered at the four-star Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort.
This hotel takes guests to the Duong Dong Market by horse-drawn cart with an experienced chef to buy all the necessary ingredients to prepare dishes under the chef’s instruction and supervision.
Two new dishes offered by the resort, ca ri ghe (crab curry) and tiet canh ghe (crab blood soup), are proving to be the most popular.
Sarah Price, an Australian reporter for Sydney based newspaper The Sun Herald tried making the dishes and said she enjoyed preparing and eating the hot curried crab with bread, vermicelli and a little Phu Quoc fish sauce.
In particular, the white crab blood in the crab-blood soup with fried-shrimp rice cakes was a unique tasting opportunity she said.
Guests at the Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort should also try the chao nhum (rice porridge with sea urchin meat), another of its specialties.
This dish, served exclusively at the resort, is tastier when eaten cool.
Cooking tours, or tours with a cooking component, are offered throughout Vietnam.
The Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort is becoming increasingly popular and offers guests the chance to visit several other areas of interest on the island such as Sung Hung Co Tu (Sung Hung Pagoda) and Dinh Cau (Master Palace) in addition to its cooking courses.
Saigon-Phu Quoc Resort
1 Tran Hung Dao St., Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province
Tel: (077) 384 6999
Web site: www.sgphuquocresort.com.vn
Saigontourist Travel Service
49 Le Thanh Ton St., Dist. 1, HCMC
Tel: (08) 827 9279
Web site: www.saigontourist.net
Reported by Tien Dat |
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