Vietnamese Cuisine 25345 - TERM 3

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!

This course is supported by the TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy, numeracy and wellbeing needs of students. You must attend 80% of the class. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.