Beijing Food Culture & Cooking Class
- Learn to cook you own classic Chinese dishes such as stir-fry and dumplings, as taught by expert local instructors
- Tour a local market and pick out your own fresh ingredients like a local
- Visit some of Beijing's most famous snack and cake shops such as the iconic Daoxiangcun Foodstuffs Store
- Continue on a hutong rickshaw tour and take in the peaceful side of Beijing
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What to expect
Uncover the ancient secrets of Chinese cuisine during this ideal market tour and cooking class in China's culinary capital, Beijing. Immerse yourself in the bustling atmosphere of a local food market and gain a deeper understanding of the region's rich culinary culture and purchase fresh ingredients from friendly shopkeepers to use for later. Then, under the guidance of an expert chef, prepare local delicacies and delicious dishes inspired by recipes used for hundreds of years. Cook in the cosy environment of a local Beijing home and you'll soon master the techniques of sweet and sour pork and kung pao chicken, two of China's most recognisable dishes. After your time in the kitchen draws to a close, enjoy your efforts and tuck in to your own creations for lunch. If that wasn't enough, after lunch you'll be shown around the area's ancient hutong alleys and some of Beijing's most iconic food stores!
Reviews
We had very high expectations when we signed up for the Beijing Food Culture & Cooking Class. It started out very good. We were picked up at our hotel in the Hutong area by the guide. We were taken out to a fresh market, but not a local one, and it was the first time that guide was here, and he was not able to tell us much, so the fresh market was quick. The car took us back to our hotel area, as our Master Chef had the cooking school only 200 m from our hotel. It would have made more sense to go to a local fresh market with Masker Chef Chao, as he probably would have given more lively tur at a local fresh market. The Cooking class was terrific, Master Chef Chao was very lively and very passionated, his mission was clearly to give us an unforgettable day, and teach us Chinese cuisine, everyone loved the food we were cooking, in the very charming Hutong house and courtyard. We can highly recommend Master Chef Chao 5 stars out of 5. In the afternoon we were again taken out with the Guide to the old Beijing, but I must say that we quite quickly told that we wanted to go alone, as he was not very good, and apparently didn´t know more about Beijing than you can find in the light version of guidebooks of Beijing.
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