Cooking Classes

Ho Chi Minh City Chocolate-Making Cooking Class

Create your own chocolate truffles in Ho Chi Minh City with support from chocolatiers, turning ingredients into treats to enjoy during your visit.

Begin at a Ho Chi Minh City studio where your host introduces cocoa in Vietnam, then you move to your workstation to start each chocolate-making task.

Join a session that explores Vietnam's cocoa history, a tasting of local chocolate, and time to shape your own chocolate bars or truffles.

End by boxing your handmade chocolates in a decorated keepsake, then bring your Saigon creations home as gifts or to enjoy later on your trip.

Chocolate-making workshop

Guided instruction throughout the chocolate workshop

Introduction to the history of cocoa in Vietnam

Guided tasting of locally crafted chocolate

Materials for making chocolate bars or truffles

Transport to the studio

Meals

You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.

Explore a chocolate-making workshop in Ho Chi Minh City with guided instruction, history, and a tasting session.

Getting started

Arrive at the cosy studio in Ho Chi Minh City and check in for your chocolate-making workshop. After a brief welcome, your instructor introduces the session format and safety basics, then leads you to your workstation with all materials laid out. Once everyone is set up, guided instruction throughout the chocolate workshop begins.

What to expect

Ho Chi Minh City chocolate studio

Step into a cosy studio in Ho Chi Minh City, where you move from learning about cocoa to crafting and tasting your own creations. This is a single-session chocolate-making workshop that combines storytelling, hands-on work, and a guided tasting.

Features

Begin with an introduction to the history of cocoa in Vietnam, including how it is cultivated locally and how it became part of Saigon's food scene. This introduction to the history of cocoa in Vietnam sets the context for everything you create during the session.

Take part in a chocolate-making workshop session where you work with materials for making chocolate bars or truffles. All materials for making chocolate bars or truffles are provided, so you can focus on tempering, shaping, and decorating.

Benefit from guided instruction throughout the chocolate workshop, as your instructor demonstrates each step and helps you adjust texture, flavor, and finish. This guided instruction throughout the chocolate workshop is the core of the Chocolate-Making Workshop with Guided Instruction variant.

Join a guided tasting of locally crafted chocolate, sampling different varieties made in Vietnam. During this guided tasting of locally crafted chocolate, you compare flavor notes and textures to understand how ingredients and cocoa origins influence the final result.

Craft your own chocolate truffles with a decorated box, then take home your handmade chocolates as a sweet souvenir from Saigon, created during this chocolate-making workshop.

Additional information

Experience type: This experience is a chocolate-making workshop in a cosy studio in Ho Chi Minh City.

Guided format: A host provides guided instruction throughout the chocolate-making workshop.

Learning focus: You learn about the history of cocoa in Vietnam and how it is cultivated locally.

Hands-on activity: You craft your own chocolate truffles and chocolate bars using provided materials.

Tasting session: You enjoy a guided tasting of locally crafted Vietnamese chocolate varieties.

Souvenir: You take home your handmade chocolates, often presented in a decorated box.

Transport: Transport to the studio is not included, so you must arrange your own way there.

Meals: Meals are not included in this workshop experience.

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