We had a fantastic experience visiting the market, local farm, learning the farm techniques, cooking class and foot massage! Our guide Dung was so pleasant, and very informative!





Book this tour and you will have a chance to be a real farmer, practicing farming and learning how to cook tasty specialities from the village’s vegetables. Joining us, you will compete with each other in the group to become a local MASTER CHEF. Whoever wins will get a local special prize. Experience the local farmer's life at the village and have a chance to see many different animals such as water buffalo, storks, cows, and free-range chickens. Experience real rural market life, learn how to bargain at the market. Cycle to the small beautiful farming rural roads with fabulous views.
Prices are per person when two book together; a solo traveller pays $86.
Larger groups pay less per person.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 17.
At 8:00 am or 14:00 pm: Our tour guide will meet you at the hotel and start the tour by cycling to Hoi An central market or Ba Le market. Here, we will learn how to choose the good and fresh ingredients to be used in our cooking lesson. As you know, market is not the place where the locals sell and buy things, but also the community where they can see and chat with their friends. We will see many kinds of goods, fruits, souvenirs, and animals. Market is the perfect place to learn how to bargain.
After the market, we continue to cycle to Tra Que vegetable village, the place where we will learn how to cook and compete with each other to become a new local MASTER CHEF. At the village, we will be welcomed by a local welcome drink. Take a short break, we will go with a local farmer to visit the village with many kinds of herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Learning how to do some farming works, wearing farming clothes to do some light works with the traditional methods of hundreds of years ago, no electrical machinery here. Going back to the local farmer’s house, we start the Cooking class to learn how to cook some specialities such as: Tra Que vegetable salad Tam Huu, Vietnamese rice pancakes, fried spring rolls. At the end of the cooking course, the local master chef will tell you who would be the winner. We will enjoy what we have just cooked as lunch. Finishing the tour by having a foot massage, made from local herbal medicines. Cycling back to your hotel, tour ends.
We will pick you up at your hotels in Hoi An in 3 kms. Other picking up outside of Hoi An, you have to pay extra fees.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Half Day Cooking Class At Tra Que Vegetable Village Hoi An lasts about 5 hours. The itinerary has 2 stops.
Prices start at $71 per person for this Hoi An experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. That is the per-person price when two book together; a solo traveller pays $86. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day, starting at 8:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 2:00 PM.
Children aged 1–7 pay nothing, adults from $71.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
Yes, pickup is offered. We will pick you up at your hotels in Hoi An in 3 kms. Other picking up outside of Hoi An, you have to pay extra fees. Pickup points include La An Central Boutique Villa & Spa, Hoi An Canal House.
The experience is available in EN.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 15 participants.
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap Specialized infant seats are available
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 5.0 out of 5 across 9 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Private Tours By Local Guides.
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We had a fantastic experience visiting the market, local farm, learning the farm techniques, cooking class and foot massage! Our guide Dung was so pleasant, and very informative!
This was a wonderful trip through Hoi An, and Mr. Tran was an amazing, knowledge guide - it was really interesting to learn from him. The bike tour is gorgeous, and very scenic - also pretty flat, and I was able to cycle fairly easily despite not riding a bike for a good few years. The tour of the herb garden, introduction to what they make, as well as using it in our cooking was simple, and so much fun!
Best tour we did in Hoi An! We loved our friendly guide, Mr Dung. He was extremely knowledgeable and shared lots of interesting information with us. We felt extremely safe in his hands and would highly recommend this tour. It was so much fun!
We arrived to Tra que village looking for a farming course and there we randomly managed to arrive to Tra Que water wheel to take a 45 minutes tour and experience with a real farmer, it was amazing! My children loved it! We also stayed for lunch in the restaurant, every plate was so fresh! The use all the herbs from the place to cook and it is just yummy, the also served us a free lemonade that it was refreshing and just perfect.
What a lovely informative morning with our wonderful guide and chef sun! We started touring the local market and sourcing our ingredients as well as a variety of fruits and vegetables that were new to us, then a cycle ride through the paddy fields and the picturesque shrimp lakes, past heard of waterbuffalo through the beautiful herb gardens to the waterwheel cookery school We cooked 4 delicious dishes which was made great fun and we were coached through every step and we tasted our efforts which were simply delish! Thanks for an amazing day
Nice and fun cooking class, biking, garden village hangout. Thinh is a great guide. Really worth it.
Thank you so much for your excellent review and we are so happy to know you had a great experience with us. We wish you all the best in 2024.
Excellent half day trip to explore Hoi an countryside with a local private guide. We visited Ba Le market and really enjoyed it. Our excellent guide explained us the local daily life, their culture. We loved the farming works and the cooking class under the guidance of a local chef. It was such a great experience and 100% recommend this tour.
We booked a private tour from our Cruise ship to visit Marble mountains and Tra Que vegetable village. We did fabulous marble mountains and we learnt how to cook local specialties in Hoi An! It was such a nice day and our guide HOA was very nice, knowleageble! Highly recommend it
Dear Steven, Thank you very much for your kind review! On behalf of Culture Pham Travel, we wish you and your family members are always in a great health and all the best for you guys! Hope to see you again as our friends! Yours Mr. Hoa
We joined the cooking class tour in the herbal garden name Tra Que. Our guide Quan is very informative , his English is absolutelly perfect and very easy to understand . We was tought by Quan about many types of veggies and how to use them in the real life (use chillies, garlic, ... for organic fertilizer ). We also had experiences to make our own foods such as spring rolls & rice pancake as know as Banh Xeo. There were also plethora foods for lunch. Highly recomment Quan & his tour when you visit Hoi An.
Dear Ms Jamie, Thank you for your kind and great feedback! We really happy to know that you enjoyed the cooking class tour with us! We wish you had a wonderful time in Vietnam! Hope to see you again!
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Half Day Cooking Class At Tra Que Vegetable Village Hoi An | 5 hours | 5.0 (9) | $71 | |
Trà Quế Vegetable Village, Herbal cocktail & HoiAn Cooking Class | 4h 30min | 4.9 (174) | $29 | View |
Gardening at Tra Que Vegetable Village and cooking class | 5 hours | 5.0 (4) | $45 | View |
Experience Private Cooking Class in Vegetables Village Tra Que | 3 hours | 5.0 (1) | $32 | View |
Experience Rural Life Cooking Class In Tra Que Vegetable Farm | 4 hours | — | $35 | View |
Guided Tour to Tra Que Vegetable Farming, Cooking Class & Herbal Foot Massage | 4h 30min | — | $76 | View |
Half day Tra Nhieu and Tra Que vegetable village tour from Hoi An | 4 hours | — | $77 | View |