Joe Louis cooks pho
Eating ethnic or local food gives a good sense of a place’s flavors and palette. Cooking local food immerses you in a location’s culinary world. Next time you visit a new country, don’t just try out restaurants or street vendors, but sign up for a cooking class. They are often cheap, educational, and delicious.
In Hoi An we signed up for a cooking class to learn how to make the Vietnamese broth pho. Like a real cooking session, we didn’t’ start in the kitchen, but rather in the market. We walked around the local food market seeing, feeling, smelling the ingredients we would later be working with.
See what other blogs are saying about cooking pho:
“However you order your phở, it’s all about customization- you can garnish with chili peppers, onions, bean sprouts, Mexican coriander, Thai basil, lime, chili sauce and hoisin sauce. It took me a few weeks to really learn how to garnish and season phở- if phở ever tastes bland it’s probably because you haven’t added enough to it yet!”
–Ashley Abroad
“Just two hours and thirty minutes, you can visit the local market and shop for local ingredients. We will teach you to cook Authentic Vietnamese Dishes of your choice from the menu at our family run riverside restaurant. Anytime, morning or afternoon and evening. We are flexible and everyone is welcome!!!”
–Gioan Cookery
