Phu Quoc Food Tour or Cooking Class?

hours, all three: 3
dishes max on the tour: 5
dishes you cook: 4
minimum age on the tour: 12

The difference in one table

	Food tour (Scooter Bites)	Cooking class (either)
You mostly	Ride, sit, taste, listen	Stand, chop, roll, taste
Number of dishes	3 - 5 tasting portions	3 - 4 dishes as a full meal
Where	Several kitchens across Duong Dong	One class kitchen
You take home	A map in your head of where to eat	Recipes and a skill
Children	12 and over	6 and over, with an adult
Rain	Runs in showers, raincoats provided	Barely matters
Vegetarians	Limited	Full vegetarian version
Price per person	USD 39 - 89	USD 49 - 55

Choose the food tour if

It is your first or second evening and you want to know where to eat for the rest of the stay.
You are more interested in island dishes - herring salad, sea urchin, bun quay - than in the classics of Vietnamese cooking.
You like moving around and seeing the town at a busy hour.
You ride a motorbike at home, hold a 1968-convention permit, and want the cheapest option on this site.

The food tour page has the full menu for each session and the six conditions for riding yourself.

Choose a cooking class if

You are travelling with children between 6 and 11.
Someone in your group is vegetarian or has a seafood allergy.
It is the rainy season and you want something indoors.
You would rather make one good meal than taste five small things.
You want to cook Vietnamese food at home afterwards.

Then choose between them: Roll & Brew for technique - three rolls and egg coffee, morning or afternoon - or Pass It On Kitchen for a market walk and a family-style dinner from 16:00.

The case for doing both

If you have four nights or more, both is the best answer, in a particular order. Take the food tour early in the trip: you learn the dishes, the names and what you like. Cook a few days later, when you know which flavours you want to take home.

The two do not repeat each other much. The tour is mostly island seafood and breakfast noodles. Roll & Brew is northern-style rolls and egg coffee. Pass It On Kitchen is vegetables, dips and dessert. The one overlap is pho rolls, which both classes teach.

If you have	Do this
One evening	Night Bites
One morning	Morning Bites, or Roll & Brew if you are 6 - 11 or vegetarian
One late afternoon	Pass It On Kitchen
Two separate slots	The food tour first, a class second

What both get wrong for some people

Neither is a home visit or a farm stay. The food tour is a guided run through ordinary kitchens, not a social dinner with a family; both classes are taught in resort kitchens with a plan and a teacher. If what you want is an afternoon in someone's home, neither of these is it, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.

And neither is a large meal at a fine restaurant. Portions on the tour are tasting size, and the classes feed you what you cooked, which is plenty but simple.

Common questions

Questions travellers ask most

Which is better for a couple?

Night Bites, riding pillion, if you are comfortable on a scooter. Pass It On Kitchen if you would rather stay in one place and cook dinner together.

Which is better for a family?

A cooking class. Children from 6 can join either class with an adult, at a reduced rate, while the food tour starts at 12.

Can I do the food tour and a class on the same day?

Morning Bites and the afternoon Roll & Brew fit, as do Morning Bites and Pass It On Kitchen. Avoid Night Bites with the afternoon classes, which overlap.