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Chinese Bun Making Workshop: Spice Market Tour and Cooking Class
4.9
19 Ratings
Cheng Du Shi
Immerse yourself in the flavors of Sichuan cuisine with a half-day Chinese bun cooking class. Explore a local spice market, learn about Sichuan spices, and make traditional steamed buns with a professional chef. A unique and unforgettable culinary experience!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Chengdu - Immerse yourself in a 4-5 hour exclusive workshop on crafting Chinese Bao Zi (steamed buns). Your adventure begins with a lively tour of a local spice market, where you’ll engage in entertaining challenges and discover various Sichuan spices and ingredients to be used later in the cooking lesson. The session takes place in an authentic Sichuan-style courtyard, where you’ll be welcomed with traditional Sichuan tea, honoring the regional practice of hospitality. Subsequently, a professional chef will lead you through the cooking process in a warm and inviting kitchen. To cap off the experience, savor the Bao Zi you’ve created, accompanied by a selection of beers or other drinks. This educational, captivating, and enjoyable workshop promises to be a memorable highlight of your life.
What's Included
- Market tour
- Food ingredients
- Lunch or dinner based on your class schedule
- Light refreshments
- Beverages/beer
- English speaking guide
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
Meal Options
- Bao Zi
Additional Information
Embark on a distinctive 4-5 hour journey of making the renowned Chinese bun, Bao Zi, with us. We commence this extraordinary experience by navigating through a traditional local spice market, taking part in exciting tasks, and getting acquainted with a variety of Sichuan spices and ingredients vital for our upcoming cooking class. Set in a classic Sichuan courtyard, you’ll be introduced to local tea offerings - a time-honored custom of welcoming friends and guests. Followed by this, under the vigilant guidance of a professional chef, you’ll put your culinary skills to test in a comfortably nestled kitchen. Your efforts will be rewarded with scrumptious, self-made Bao Zi – a well-known traditional filled steamed bun, that you can relish with beer or other drinks. With an optimal blend of knowledge, excitement and novelty, this cooking class promises to be an indelible experience in your life.
- Minimum age is 5 years
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Please wear comfortable walking shoes
Location
Liangjia Alley Crossing
Jie Fang Lu Er Duan
Your guide will meet you at Liang Jia Xiang Metro Stop Exit D ,Line 6 （梁家巷地铁站D口，6号线），the morning class meeting time is 08:50, afternoon class meeting time is 13:50,evening class is 16:50
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(19 Ratings)
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Fabry1404
Aug 15, 2024
Super Cooking class with Lance - We stayed a couple of days in Chengdu and wanted to try our hand at local cuisine! Lance was very kind, he initially accompanied us to the local Point of Sale where there is a surprise he designed for the participants. Then we moved to the cooking school for a “tea” break and started cooking together with the very kind cook of the school. Together they gave us all the instructions to compose our typical dishes, from the cutting of the ingredients, to the final assembly of the dish.
It was a really positive experience, made so by Lance’s kindness and preparation! I highly recommend it!
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528naokom
Aug 13, 2024
One last local experience! - I visited local markets with a very kind Guide and sampled vegetables and tofu dishes I had never seen before.
After that, I made bako in the kitchen, but they taught me how to wrap bean paste carefully, and in the end I was able to wrap it very well.
We had a lot of children who had just learned English talk to us and the children had a good time.
They experienced the local diet by eating watermelon and corn bought at the market, cucumber salad made by children on a special mission, and baozi made with porridge.
Baozi was so delicious!
It was a special family memory from the summer vacation.
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Gordanam546
Jul 5, 2024
Great experience - Highly recommend this activity! We had a wonderfull time learning how to make Chinese food. The guys were very frendly and funny, after the class we had a nice relaxing time drinking tea and eating what our specialities. The visit to local maket was also very interesting, learned about some local spices and ingreedients.
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G9559goandreww
May 12, 2024
Chengdu Cooking Class - This was an excellent experience and great value, highly recommended. The two hosts Lance and Jerry (names presumably substantially anglicised) spoke excellent English and were extremely knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. The market tour was fascinating and fun, buying the ingredients for use. After tea and oranges, we had a ball making tasty and spicy Chinese pork buns. Lance and Jerry were most encouraging of my rather ham-fisted efforts at folding them neatly and I'm confident I'll master this once I get home. I managed to eat 7 and took home another 6 which were gone by nightfall! Don't hesitate to sign up and enjoy.
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Ronan_m
Oct 9, 2023
A great experience - A great experience, the local market was fun, interesting and we got to try and use a little Chinese language. Lance our guide was great from start to finish and took lots of fabulous pictures which meant we could get with our cookery class.
Highly recommended this tour, one small little grip, the location of the cookery class was quite a distance and took us about an hour, better to tell clients in advance.
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Chrissytin
Dec 28, 2019
Wonderful day with „Chilli Cool China“ - We had a fantastic day with Lance. We visited the local market, learned all about Chinese spices and local Food. We made Sichuan springrolls and Dumplings. After some tea and snacks we started making buns. It was harder than expected but fun to learn. We highly recommend this trip and thank Lance for this special day in Chengdu!
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Ashems13
Nov 8, 2019
Fantastic morning with Lance! - Lance was a fantastic host with lots of knowledge of the market foods and was happy to answer all of our questions about literally everything! He and the professional chef had lots of patience with us when we found it difficult making the steamed buns (my thumb had a mind of its own!) My partner didn’t really want to come along but I persuaded him it would be fun and now thanks to Lance and the Chilli Cool House crew, he wants to try more cooking classes on our world tour!! I would definitely recommend taking one of their classes whilst visiting Chengdu - it’s a must do.
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Bradleyhung
Oct 9, 2019
川菜料理學習 - 很特別的學習經驗，從無到有跟著chef把一道一道佳肴炒出來。本身無法像本地人一樣吃太辣，可以隨個人喜好調整味道，自由度很高。也特別感謝Ocean從旅店出門後，一路從市場的食材介紹，廚房的聊天。我會想推薦給大家。 Thank you guys for the unique experience. Wish you best.
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Be_happy_today
Sep 13, 2019
Excellent and fun baozi making instruction! - We had a great time with Ocean and the master chef during our half day baozi and market tour class. It poured rain but Ocean was a gracious guide and very knowledgeable about all the market foods. The baozi instruction was thorough and patient. It’s harder than it looks! Thank you Chilli Cool China!
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Girlgrammer
Sep 8, 2019
Delicious culinary experience on my solo trip - I had a blast making dumplings and bao zi with Chilli Cook on a recent solo trip I took to China. Lance was prompt in picking me up from my accommodation in Chengdu and was friendly and helpful throughout the entire tour. At the market, I learned about different fruits, vegetables and spices, practiced how to order some food items in Mandarin, tried my hand at creating some pork dumplings, and sampled some tasty street food. After leaving the market, we retired to a more quiet area and enjoyed some tea and snacks acquired from the market. At the school, I learned to make two types of bao zi fillings (pork and veggie), how to mix and roll the dough, and spent time practicing the art of forming the bao zi. It's a lot tougher than it looks, but the instruction was excellent, and I learned three different ways to form the buns. After steaming our works of art, we sat down and devoured the delicious food we had made. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Chengdu, and I know that when I come back, I'll be signing up for the Sichuan cooking class with Chilli Cool (the food they were making in the next kitchen smelled amazing!!).
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