Iloilo City Trip Overview
Enjoy a private tour of a market where locals shop and an authentic cooking class in a local home with your host Justine, an expert home cook and beekeeper. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Justine will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional Filipino dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your host’s home.
• Private market tour and cooking lesson in a local home
• Learn about beekeeping and taste real honey from Justine’s backyard apiary
• Introduction to Filipino culture and cuisine
• 100% private activity
• Experience Filipino hospitality in the Molo neighborhood of Iloilo
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
* Starts: Iloilo City, Philippines
* Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes
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What to Expect When Visiting Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines
Enjoy a private tour of a market where locals shop and an authentic cooking class in a local home with your host Justine, an expert home cook and beekeeper. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Justine will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional Filipino dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your host’s home.
• Private market tour and cooking lesson in a local home
• Learn about beekeeping and taste real honey from Justine’s backyard apiary
• Introduction to Filipino culture and cuisine
• 100% private activity
• Experience Filipino hospitality in the Molo neighborhood of Iloilo
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Meet Justine and using public transport, make your way to Iloilo Central Market where locals shop. It has hundreds of stalls selling everything from bolo knives to chicken feet! Here you will get a sneak peek into the locals’ everyday lives and can buy fresh seafood, fruits and vegetables. At first, the market will likely seem chaotic, but once you’ve adjusted to the dim light, you will notice that it is organized by type of produce. Walk through the market with Justine and shop at his favorite stalls before returning to his home for your cooking class. Justine and his parents have lived in their traditional home for the last 30 years. Justine creates his dishes in a traditional, modest kitchen, where you will participate during your one-hour hands-on cooking class. You will prep for the meal in the indoor kitchen and cook the dishes in the outdoor kitchen. You’ll learn to grill seafood, make pancit molo (pork dumpling soup) and rice cakes. After cooking, enjoy the meal you helped prepare with Justine.
Sample Menu
• Pancit molo (Filipino pork dumpling soup)
• Grilled seafood or chicken, served with vegetables
• Aligue rice (fried rice with crab fat)
• Pecan pie or mango torte
