Learn Vietnamese Cuisine in Hanoi

Honest level: Beginner -> Intermediate — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Hanoi

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Hanoi Cooking Centre
  Hands-on Vietnamese cooking classes and short courses
  The Hanoi Cooking Centre is a purpose-built cooking school, cafe and shop on the edge of the Old Quarter founded by chef Tracey Lister, offering hands-on Vietnamese cooking classes and short courses for small groups.
  https://www.hanoicookingcentre.com/
• Apron Up Cooking Class
  Market-tour cooking class with cookbook and certificate
  Apron Up is an Old Quarter cooking class founded in 2015 whose three-hour session pairs a guided local market tour with hands-on cooking of five Vietnamese dishes, sending students home with a cookbook and certificate.
  https://www.apronupcookingclass.com/
• Old Hanoi street-food and pho workshops

The credential

Cooking-school certificate of completion plus a take-home recipe repertoire and market/herb-garden fieldwork · Certifying body: — (no single accrediting body; reputation-led private cooking schools)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Vietnamese Cuisine

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.