Bean to bar Chocolate Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Bean to bar Chocolate Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City
10 meals
Explore chocolate making from bean to bar in Ho Chi Minh City. Learn techniques, taste fresh pods, and create your own delicious chocolate bar to take home in this hands-on workshop.
10 meals
Experience Details
You will know all the process to make a chocolate bar with this course.
You will know how to pick good cacao beans from the first step of the process.
The classes run for 2 hours and include:
- Explanation of the pods to bars chocolate making process and history of cacao in Vietnam, how the Vietnamese make chocolate from local ingredients.
- Tasting the fresh cacao pods
- Husking your own cacao beans
- Making your own cacao paste in the traditional style with a granite stone mortar
- Making your own chocolates bar from the first step to the final bar, decorating your own chocolate and to take home with you.
The class is at the store of Ban Cacao - Vietnamese chocolate maker , we make chocolate from local cacao.
Materials for making chocolate:
- Fresh cacao fruits
- Cacao beans
- Cacao nibs
- Cacao butter
- Cane sugar
Tools for making chocolate
- Granite mortar
- thermometer
- Scale
- Chocolate mold
-Wrapping paper
What You Get
Good To Know
- Public transportation options are available nearby
What You’ll Experience
Meeting & Pickup
Meeting Point89/14 Đ. Hàm Nghi, Đường Hàm Nghi, Quận 1 Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam, VN
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End PointThis experience ends at the meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund.
We had a wonderful time at this workshop. Amber guided us step by step to completing our chocolate bars. Along the way she taught us about the cacao trees and explained why we were doing each ste...read more
We had the most wonderful time learning about chocolate making from the cacao pod through to the finished bar. Our Iced chocolate and coffee were delicious as was all the chocolate samples. So many...read more
Our family of three (with a 10 year old Daughter) had a great experience overall on the chocolate making class. We had 5 people total in the class, all with great hands on experience. The teacher w...read more
Place is a little hard to find but it's worth the effort. Great interactive activity for families with older children and friend groups. The 4 of us really enjoyed it.
Excellent & very informative class about Vietnamese chocolate. We made our own chocolate bars, designed our packaging, and had a traditional Vietnamese iced coffee. Amber, our guide/teacher, was am...read more
