Vietnamese Cuisine

Authentic, easy, tasty Vietnamese dishes you can make at home!

By attending the course, you have a chance to experience a new cuisine from Southeast Asia, have an understanding of how the Vietnamese combine the ingredients in their cooking, and what a Vietnamese meal looks like, cook authentic dishes and enrich the meals for your family as well.

The 8-week course is divided into 3 themes

The first theme is dishes served with jasmine rice
The second is dishes cooked with rice noodles and vermicelli
The third is dishes made from rice paper and rice flour
You will learn how to:

cook the dishes served with jasmine rice
know how to use rice flour to make BÁNH XÈO (Vietnamese Crepe)
cook PHỞ (a special soup with rice noodles)
make vermicelli salads with meat marinated in the Vietnamese way
use rice papers to make CHẢ GIÒ (Vietnamese spring rolls) and GỎI CUỐN (Vietnamese summer/fresh spring rolls)

About your tutor

I am Linh Nguyen, I am originally from Viet Nam. I have been living in Hamilton for 5 years with my family of 4. I used to work as a high school teacher in Vietnam before moving to New Zealand. My passion for cooking came up when I was a teenager who always ran around the kitchen to give help while my Mum was cooking the meal. And this passion has always followed me up to now when I am in middle age. I’m currently working as a teacher aide at Sacred Heart Girls’ College where I have the opportunity to pursue my desire, learn more about the different cuisines, and present my cuisines.

I look forward to meeting you and sharing with you my cuisine - one of the richest and most diverse in the world.

Course costs

You will be given a list to buy your ingredients each week. bring a container to take your creations home!