Private Market Tour and Filipino Cooking Class in Manila with Isi

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Summary
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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
4 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
1 - 4 guests
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English, Filipino
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Immerse in Manila's culture with a private market tour and cooking class. Learn from foodie Isi to make Filipino dishes, explore a market and garden, and enjoy a home-cooked meal.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Enjoy a private and authentic market tour and cooking class with your host Isi, a local food celebrity. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Explore a local market and return to Isi's home for a garden tour and cooking class. Isi will teach you to make traditional Filipino dishes from family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your hosts' beautiful Filipino home, in Taguig, Metro Manila.


• Market tour, garden tour and cooking lesson in a local home

• Introduction to Filipino culture and cuisine

• 100% private activity

• Experience Filipino hospitality in a residential Taguig, Metro Manila neighborhood

• Vegetarian and gluten free options available


This experience is a true glimpse into the Filipino culture and cuisine with a warm and friendly local.

Sample Menu

STARTER
Ensaladang pako (fern salad in a calamansi citrus dressing)
MAIN
Ginataang kalabasa at sitaw (squash in a coconut milk stew)
MAIN
Grilled shrimp in a cilantro chimichurri
MAIN
Mechado (soy marinated beef, cooked in an onion and tomato sauce)
MAIN
Inihaw na baboy (grilled pork chops)
DESSERT
Calamansi pie

What You Get

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Private market tour and Filipino cooking class with your host Isi
Hotel pickup and drop-off

Good To Know

  • Please note this is not a professional cooking class, rather an insider glimpse into Filipino culture and cuisine with a local expert cook in her home
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Visit a local market with Isi and discover local and seasonal produce and ingredients used in Filipino cooking. After exploring the market, ride in Isi's car to her home for your cooking class. First Isi will walk you through her small vegetable garden where she grows lemongrass and calamansi, a distinctive Filipino citrus fruit that she uses to flavor her food. Isi's food is redolent of flavors such as calamansi, garlic, chilies, coconut milk and fish sauce. In her kitchen she will teach you to prepare Filipino family recipes that have been passed down through the generations. You can choose between a hands-on lesson and a cooking demonstration during which you will watch her prepare the meal. Just let her know your preference! After cooking, enjoy the authentic Filipino meal you helped prepare with this warm and fun-loving host at her dining table. Your menu includes a variety of homemade Filipino dishes and concludes with a dessert like calamansi pie.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines, PH

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Meet your host Isi at her home. Please allot enough time to get to Isi's home in Taguig, Metro Manila, especially during heavy traffic times. Exact address can be found in your ticket upon booking confirmation.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 48 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Such a lovely day 10/10
June 21, 2025
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Isi is incredibly knowledgeable and equally lovely! She is the perfect guide to learn all there is to know about local cuisine as well as endemic produce. I couldn't recommend this experience more,...read more

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10/10 would go again.
September 16, 2023
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Isi was easy to chat with very knowledgeable about the cuisine and all of its nuances and the regional differences. All in all it was a great time

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Filipino family cooking
June 08, 2023
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Isi had every thing ready so after greeting we got right to cooking. We made several authentic Filipino dishes while learning about the history of the food and its origins. We chopped, stirred and ...read more

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Good Food and a Great Experience.
May 20, 2023
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Isi's market tour and lunch was fantastic. The market tour gave us a chance to interact with local merchants and see the various meat, seafood and vegetables. We let Isi know what kind of food we ...read more

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Enriching cooking class
May 01, 2023
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Isi shared a lot of insights into Filipino cooking and her recipes are unique. The market tour was interesting and the food we cooked were really delicious!

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