Beijing Cooking Classes - Beijing Cooking School Classes Half Day Tour

Met at your hotel lobby by our tour guide and driver. Then drive to a local market for a half hour market tour. This market tour is essenial in having a some basic knowledge of Chinese condiments and cooking ingredients. A glimpse of Chinese condiments is a must for you to know Chinese cooking including cooking oil, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, white vinegar & dark vinegar, cooking wine and Shaoxin wine, fresh root ginger, garlic, chillies, scallion, salt and MSG

Various ingredients are available in local food and vegetable markets. The common ingrediens are Chinese cabbage, turnips, radish, carrot, spinach, rape, celery, Chinese chive (leek), mustard and many more. For meat, we have chicken, pork, lamb, beef, duck, fish etc.

3 hours Chinese cooking class including lunch

Learning Chinese dish cooking from beginning to end at a famous culinary school in Beijing. Your cooking school tour starts the visits to on-going culinary classes in the school - Chinese cold training room, Western cold kitchen, Teppanyaki training room, Chinese pastry training room, Western hot training room, Western pastry kitchen, Chinese hot training room, and fish & shellfish preparation,chopping block. Then you will watch a short documentary introducing the culinary school.

With the assistance of the expert of the school, you are arranged to prepare and learn to cook one dish - Sweet and Sour Pork with Diced Pineapple in a clean and spacious kitchen ( or you may choose to learn how to cook one of the other dishes like soft fried chicken in lemon sauce，chicken cubes with peanuts，tomato beaf，spicy and hot bean curd and etc.). It is a hands on learning experience. After the hand-on cooking class, you will get a certificate from the culinary school.