8 Days of Glorious
Food and Fabulous
Fabrics
A food &
fabric tour
Unfold the intricacies of Vietnamese cuisine and textiles with Tracey Lister, renowned Melbourne chef-owner of cooking school, Brunswick Kitchen, and the Vietnam-based, director-designer of the fashion brand, Future Traditions, Cynthia Mann.
Tracey has a deep appreciation of Vietnamese cuisine, and you will meet some of the chefs and home cooks who have shared their knowledge and expertise with her.
Cynthia’s love for the textiles of the ethnic minorities of northern Vietnam, inspired her to start Future Traditions, and she works directly with local communities to create new markets for at risk handicrafts, which you will experience first hand on the tour.
2025 tours
14 – 22 May and 15 - 23 October
Let us inspire you, with our passion for the extraordinary flavours, culture and textiles of northern Vietnam, and meet the people who have generously taken us into their lives and shared their experience and skills with us.
Tour highlights:
* Street food tour
* Private gallery tours by the curators Visit to a Thai textile workshop
* Cooking class in a local chef’s home
* Luxury accommodation overlooking the mountains and rice paddies with your own plunge pool
* Visit to an ethnic community market
* Workshop with Hmong artisans
* And on the final night a movable feast around Hanoi’s Old Quarter
We expect that you too, will fall in love with the people and this amazing country!
Tracey and Cynthia