Join a local chef in their home in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, and learn how to create delicious Malay cuisine with a cooking class. Enjoy a local experience in a area characterised by hot pink and burnt-orange painted houses that rise up the lower slopes of Signal Hill, part of Table Mountain.
Meet your local chef and learn about the cuisine Cape Malay, whose cuisine fuses African tradition with that of Malaysian and Indonesian slaves, brought over by the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries. Explore the area, and take a photo amongst the colourful houses.
Learn how to create dishes that may include stews, roasts, and sauce-heavy curries, which are popular in Malay cuisine. Discover the key techniques on how to create a range of authentic dishes.
Combine various spices like ginger, fennel, star aniseed, tamarind, and, most importantly, turmeric, which gives the dishes a distinct aromatic quality. Afterwards, sit down to enjoy the fruits of your labour with some soft drinks.