Exploring ASEAN culture is an annual activity of the ASEAN Women Community in Hanoi (AWCH). Recently, AWCH members had the chance to immerse in Vietnamese culture in a cooking session.

Under the guidance of cuisine artisan Anh Tuyet, AWCH members had a memorable time trying to make Vietnamese authentic cusines including banana flowers salad, seafood fried springroll and chicken noodles.

Cooking Vietnamese dishes is the first of a series of ASEAN's culinary art exploration, which aims to bring to AWCH a new perspective of one another's countries in an authentic way.

Under the guidance of cuisines artisan Anh Tuyet, the AWCH members learn to make Vietnamese banana flowers salad. It is considered a simple dish, which the participants can try to make at home after the session.

After completing the salad, members of AWCH move on with another tasty dish of Vietnam: seafood fried spring roll.

Artisan Anh Tuyet show AWCH the techniques on making cripsy fried springroll, especially the ingredients to make the dish.

Spouse of Indonesian Ambassador carefully takes note of the recipe.

Spouse of Myanmar Ambassador and daughter, two new members of AWCH excitedly try cooking Vietnamese food.

AWCH members are very interested in the cooking session. They pose lots of question on how to cook the broth, how to select the chicken meat and how to boil it properly

Spouse of Philippines Ambassador delicately garnishes her bowl of noodles

After the cooking session, AWCH members enjoy the food they have cooked. The session is a meaningful event to gain insight of the Vietnamese gastronomy.

( Translated by Phi Yen )