I love to take a cooking class while traveling. Try to take the local kitchen with me when I go home again. When I was on Samosir Island I knew I could get one at Juwita’s Cafe. I went around looking for her and found the restaurant and talked to the owner about the cooking class at Juwita’s Cafe I had heard about. And yes, ofcourse I could get one!!
And I was lucky, I was talking to the lady that would give the class, she introduced herself as Heddy. She would give a class the next day if I wanted…but I would be alone. Wauw! A private cooking class, that’s great! My first day on the island of Samosir couldn’t have started better!!
Cooking class at Juwita’s Cafe
The next day I found Heddy, the owner and my teacher, lying in her cafe. She just had her afternoon sleep in the cafe and after a couple of minutes she put me to work. Heddy gave me the ingredients and showed me how to process them. I cutted and pounded them all. I even used the old fashion machine to get the coco out of the nut. I loved to do it like that.
Me scratching the inside of the coconut oldskoolstyle!
Isn’t that just great?
I ofcourse had the choice to what I wanted to make on my cooking class and these were my choices: Chicken Curry, Egg Sambal and Lodeh. She helped me with everything, telling me what to do and handing it to me. That is a great way to really learn it yourself.
Don’t you just love how the kitchen is just next to the ‘siesta’ place with a view into the wonderful garden?
Cooking class at Juwita’s Cafe
I really enjoyed this cooking class even though I was alone. We talked about all kinds of everyday things and I do feel I got to know Heddy and that is great! Her son was there also and he made some pictures of us, working hard!
Heddy teaching me how to pound the peppers!
I did got the recipes and some more by email. I would have rather have them in paper/booklet because an email is lost easily in my emailbox… And some papers gives me a great memory to the class and teacher.
Costs and Duration
Unfortunately I’m not sure exactly what I paid, if I remember correctly it was around 20 euro… the experience was good!
The cooking class started around 4 and I had my diner in the cafe around 6. When you’re in a group you can easily stay there for a couple of hours afterwards because you’re already in a cafe. Enjoy the day and evening there together!
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See where I also took cooking classes around this beautiful world
Cooking Class at Spice Paradise – Jodhpur, India
Cooking Class at the Red Bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam
Going too Local at Varanasi, India
Cooking Class at Silom Cookingschool – Bangkok, Thailand