DIY Cooking Class

We had a special treat for dinner that night, we went to a DIY Cooking Class.

It was at the Gioan cookery school in Hoi An:

A delightful bubbling young lady (who could remember all 12 of our names, but I couldn’t remember one of hers) was our instructor. I had to look up her name later, it was Hahn and she calls her self Happy Hahn.

She comes highly recommended and should have had her own TV cooking show, everyone else has:

She showed us how to prepare the elements of a 5 course meal which we cooked ourselves:

These few photos are courtesy of Jenn. Thanks Jenn. See her complete Vietnam photo set on Flickr, and her travel blog is here.

The group all raring to go:

Preparing the veggies:

Frying the spring rolls:

Burning the banana leaves???

Serving our salad:

We ate what we cooked and it was good, we made our own spring rolls (as well as 4 other dishes) and none others we subsequently tasted were as good:

We all had nifty aprons on and there was plenty of beer and wine on tap but we took it all very seriously:

Not too many photos that evening, we were busy and our hands were mucky, but here are a few more, courtesy of Andrea:

When we eaten all the food and drank all the beer and wine, we bought a signed copy of Hahn’s Vietnamese cookbook for for a $ or 2, for some “Happy Chopping, Happy Cooking” at home:

So goodbye from Happy Hahn and her Gioan Cookery Class, it was a great evening out: