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Glad you come eating the Chinese food to know the art behind it on this Yangshuo cooking and local market experience. Meet your expert-guide in yangshuo,and explore the busy market to study about how to choose the fresh ingredients. Next ,enjoy your hands-on cooking class:prepping staple yangshuo dishes -beer fish,and also take a cup of family tea .A choice of time slots gives you useful flexibility.
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Yangshuo Cooking Class with Market Trip
4 hours
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Expand your food knowledge and taste delicious Chengdu cuisine on this small-group or private cooking experience. Not only will you learn cooking techniques with oversight from an expert, you'll also explore a market like a local and learn about the ingredients in your food. Practice your skills while making multiple dishes, then enjoy your meal with beverages included too.
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Chengdu Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit
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Start the day by exploring Lijiang’s oldest market to shop for your cooking class, with hands-on instruction led by a local Naxi minority family. Each person will prepare and eat three dishes.
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Lijiang Naxi Cuisine Cooking Class & Market Visit
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Combine Chinese art culture, and cuisine in just a few hours on this private half-day private tour that lets you learn Chinese calligraphy and cooking with two classes. First, take a calligraphy class in the hutong area, then visit a local market to pick up ingredients before cooking and eating Chinese dumplings in a local family's home. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included for added convenience.
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Calligraphy and Dumpling Cooking Classes Private Half Day Tour
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Hong Kong is renowned throughout Asia for its unique cuisine, so what better place to experience a cooking class than the island metropolis. This small-group experience, an ideal choice for travelers seeking a hands-on cultural experience, reveals products you may otherwise have missed during a local market tour and provides insight into Hong Kong’s intricate cuisine. Plus, you can choose from a morning or afternoon departure time to suit your schedule.
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Hong Kong Market Walking Tour & Chinese Cooking Class
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of visiting China. Learn how to take the experience back home with you in this private dim sum cooking class in Shanghai's French Concession. Under your instructor's guidance, gain a deeper understanding of flavors and techniques as you learn how to make your choice of two bite-size treats, including dumplings, egg rolls, and desserts.
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Private Cooking Class: Make Your Own Dim Sum In Shanghai
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Learn to make traditional Chinese dumplings using fresh organic ingredients in a small-group hands-on cooking class. Begin with a market walk guided by a local host to explore authentic ingredients, then prepare and boil your own dumplings. Vegan options are available upon request, making this class suitable for all food lovers.
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Organic Chinese Dumpling Class with Market Walk
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Authentic Flavor, fun hands-on experience. we teach you the real techniques of Chinese cuisine. Our class is fully customizable to your cravings, 100% hands-on, and taught in fluent English. You leave with a delicious meal and the skill to recreate genuine flavors in your home kitchen.
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Private Home Cooking Class with local Mama
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Learn to knead dough, craft fillings, and shape dumplings like a local; Uncover the history and symbolism behind dumplings with a local guide; Savor your creations in a cozy, communal dinner paired with tea; Discover the art of dumpling making; Enjoy a joyful gateway to understanding China’s rich heritage。
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Dumpling Making Workshop with Meal and Tea in Beijing
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Sichuan Hotpot has a history of at least 1700 years. Today Sichuan Hotpots have been increased in category to include the "Red Pot" (Spicy hotpot flavor with chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns), the “White Pot” (Non-spicy hotpot flavor with broth) and ‘Double Pot’ (Including the first two). With the help of your guide, you will be cooking both the spicy hotpot and the Non-spicy pot and learn to cut and set dishes with decorations, which will be guided by a professional chef. This experience will have a very unique local market visit as well, you will try to learn and taste the different foods in this beautiful city.
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Half-Day Private Hot-Pot Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit
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Enjoy drinks and socialize at top spots. Discover the Shanghai nightlife that earned the highest praise. Experience the bars and crowds that make our reviews unbeatable. Your epic night starts here! Experience the vibrant nightlife of Shanghai on a guided pub crawl. Meet new friends as you explore the city’s top bars and clubs. Enjoy a night of fun, drinks, and dancing in one of the world’s most exciting cities. This pub crawl features loads of fun and lots of interesting talks with fellow travelers and locals, while having opportunity to enjoy a variety of drinks in our hand-picked highly-rated bars (all with unique & distinctive ambiance) in Shanghai. The tour size is purposefully kept small so your local guide will be able to pay attention to every participant's interest and need, and always make sure everyone highly engaged and have chance chat with your local guide, have fun with other participants and mingle with local bar visitors.
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Shanghai Pub Crawl (Guided Bar Hopping) with Shots Included
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Discover the rich tea culture at Qixian Peak Scenic Area in Yangshuo, where lush tea terraces meet stunning karst landscapes. This hands-on activity invites you to pick tender tea buds under the guidance of local gardeners, donning traditional bamboo hats and carrying baskets. Experience the meticulous art of tea processing—stir-frying, rolling, and drying—transforming fresh leaves into aromatic 'Cuiyu' green tea. The highlight is tasting the tea you’ve crafted, all while surrounded by breathtaking scenery that blends nature and culture seamlessly.
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Guilin Tea Picking and Processing Yangshuo Qixian Peak
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Welcome to Guangzhou, the birthplace of Lingnan culture. YumChina Kitchen invites you to experience authentic Cantonese cuisine and Chinese food culture. This hands-on cooking class lets you explore Guangfu traditions in practice. You will be guided by professional Cantonese chefs, who teach you ingredient selection, seasoning and practical cooking skills. We offer hundreds of classic and modern dishes with customizable lessons, so you can fully enjoy learning and cooking. Ideal for food lovers, cultural travelers and anyone wanting to improve cooking skills. Welcome to join with family, friends or colleagues to master Cantonese cuisine and create unforgettable memories in Guangzhou.
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Half Day Cantonese Cooking Class for Chinese Culinary Experience
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Highlights of the Experience: · Led by a local, certified, fun, English-speaking master chef · Explore a vibrant wet market to immerse yourself in local freshness · Master the art of making two types of traditional Chinese dumplings · Unveil the secrets of stir-frying technique with a fiery Chinese wok · Learn to prepare two iconic Chinese dishes with special stories behind · Discover the mysteries behind traditional Chinese dressings and sauces · Have a delightful Chinese tea tasting to perfectly pair with your meal · Enjoy complimentary soft drinks and beer (and Chinese liquor if you are keen!) · Leave with exclusive recipes and surprise gifts as memorable takeaways · And more!
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Wok 'n' Roll: Chinese Cooking Class with Local Master Chef
3 hours 30 minutes
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During this 4-5 hours unique Dumpling making workshop, you’ll be taken into an authentic local spice market to explore it with fun challenges to complete and learn different species of Sichuan spices and ingredients that will be used in the following cooking class. The class will be carried out in a traditional Sichuan style courtyard. You’ll be treated with Sichuan local tea as it’s local’s custom to treat friends and visitors. After that, you then will be guide to start the cooking process by a professional chef in a cozy kitchen. Finally, you can enjoy the dumplings with delicious fillings made by yourself along with some beers or beverages. For it’s really informative, interesting and fun, this class will be an unforgettable experience in your lifetime.
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Half day Chengdu Dumpling Class: Make from Scratch
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Learn how to make one of Xian’s famous noodle dishes, called biang biang noodles, because of the sound of the noodles when they’re made. Learn all about noodle culture on this small group tour, with a max 10 passengers. The class is about an hour. You’ll drink tea and coffee while you learn the techniques, practice cooking, and then enjoy a noodle party at the end.
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3-Hour Biang Biang Noodles Cooking Class in Xi'an
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Take a private cooking class in the home of your chef-instructor to learn about Chinese cuisine and experience daily life in Shanghai. Start with hotel pickup and a guided market tour that includes samples of popular snacks. Then head to your instructor’s home for a hands-on cooking lesson. Afterward, enjoy a lunch or dinner that you helped to make, accompanied by lively conversation.
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Private Home Cooking Class with Shanghai Mama
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- Explore Local Market near Hutong neighborhood and shop for fresh ingredients - Experience a true hands-on cooking class, making Dumplings start from scratch - Explore Chinese food culture and folk custom - Different dumpling fillings flavor for you to choose (vegan friendly)
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Dumpling Cooking Class and Local Market Tour
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In this experience class, you can make two local delicacies: Hong Kong-style egg tarts and custard mooncakes. Ideal for killing time. After the production is completed, you can enjoy it on the spot or take away the finished product with the packaging box. ::::::::Experience::::::::: - The instructor will teach you how to prepare two representative Hong Kong delicacies in English - The instructor will explain the history and origin of the food, and learn more about the stories of these two delicacies - The location is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, the center of Hong Kong, with convenient transportation and close to other tourist attractions - This activity is a baking class with an instructor. We also offer a self-service baking experience without an instructor. For details, please visit: https://www.viator.com/zh-TW/tours/x/y/d0-148395P1
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Hong Kong gourmet baking experience class: Hong Kong-style egg tart + custard mooncake
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Biang biang noodles are one of the iconic dishes from Xi’an. Learn to make them yourself with this half-day small-group cooking class. Visit a spice market to learn about and gather ingredients, then learn to make the noodles in a traditional Chinese courtyard, while enjoying local tea. Afterwards, enjoy your creations with beer or other beverages.
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Half-Day Xi'an Biang Biang Noodles Cooking with a Market Visit
3 hours 30 minutes
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Tai Chi, needless to say , is the most popular Chinese style exercise and can be seen practiced almost in every corner of the world. But very few can realize it actually carry the indigenous Chinese culture: Taoism. It aims to improve body's decent Qi through series of relaxation work. Once you have the Qi flow throughout your entire body freely, it will largely improve the overall health level and achieve a wonderful state of harmony between man and nature, bring a qualitative leap in thinking and cognition. Chinese tea is the most important drink for Taoist, as it can enhance the Shen, as well as cultivate great moral conduct and a stable temperament for the practitioner. Chinese tea also greatly assists with the internal cultivation of Tao.Tea drinking is also an indispensable drink in people’s daily diet, offering great health benefits in addition to promoting peace and self-reflection.
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Beijing Tai Chi and Tea Ceremony Experience
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Learn to make Shanghai’s signature dumpling, xiao long bao, in this cooking class in Shanghai. These are called soup dumplings, because they have a broth inside the dumpling itself. Your teacher will be a passionate foodie, who will show you the technique involved. You’ll make some yourself, and cook them two ways. At the end, eat them together, and leave with a full belly and the recipe.
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2.5hrs Chinese Kitchen Cooking Class: Xiaolongbao Soup Dumplings
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If you’re passionate about sushi and eager to try something new, this small-group, 4-course cooking class hosted through Cozymeal in Hong Kong is for you. Guided by a skilled local chef, you’ll learn to season rice, shape perfect sushi donuts and work confidently with fresh seafood. During the class, you’ll create: - First course: Mixed seafood scallion pancake with oysters, squids, prawns, scallions and chili sauce - Second course: Sushi donuts with Japanese rice, seaweed, raw fish, salmon roe, prawns and squid - Third course: Garlic stir-fry choy sum with garlic paste and local green leaf vegetables - Dessert: Mango coconut soup with pomelo made from mango, sago, coconut cream and pomelo This interactive class offers a creative twist on Japanese tradition, blending vibrant ingredients and hands-on learning for an unforgettable culinary experience in Hong Kong.
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Asian Favorites Cooking Class in Hong Kong (4-Course Meal)
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Welcome to spend a cocktail night with us! It’s one of the best ways to make new friends while traveling — and I promise, you won’t regret it! You might start your night in a traditional Chinese medicine–inspired bar, where a bartender trained in herbal mixology crafts a cocktail infused with medicinal herbs just for you. Next, step into a mystical divination bar, where a Chinese witch”reveals your fortune and blesses your cocktail according to your destiny. Before your trip, you’ll receive a personalized digital nightlife guide filled with insider tips: Beijing is full of fascinating bars — from academic bars to LGBTQ+ friendly lounges, and film-inspired hideouts. Whatever your vibe, you can freely choose which bars to visit based on your interests. Let new friendships make your journey in Beijing unforgettable!
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Beijing Nightlife with a Local Friend Bars Social and Culture
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