Beijing Cooking Learning Day Tour

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1Highlights & Map

Learn how to cook your favorite Chinese dishes in a traditional Chinese Cooking Class in Beijing. Your skilled chef will lead you through each step, and you’ll practice cooking two to three dishes of your own. You’ll then dine on the finished products and finish your day by visiting Beijing’s most famous pastry shop and the Hutong area.

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2Itinerary

After being picked up from your hotel around 08:30-09:00am, you will visit a local Chinese market with your culinary guide. Experience the lively Chinese market atmosphere and watch native Chinese people bargain for groceries. Learn about and shop for the different ingredients used in Chinese cooking, including vegetables, meats, sauces and spices.
Around 10:30am, arrive at the hutong to get started with your Cooking Lesson. Your local Chinese cooking guide will explain the different uses of light and dark soy sauces, white and dark vinegar, and cooking wine and shaoxin wine. Gain insight into distinguishing between different qualities of sauces and wines.
Learn the proper technique of using a cleaver and stir-frying vegetables and meats in a wok. Your culinary expert will cook five classic Chinese dishes, and explain each step along the way. Then, you will cook two of the dishes yourself under the instruction of your Chinese chef. After you finish your cooking lesson, you’ll be rewarded with the scrumptious dishes you and your master chef have prepared.
After lunch, your guide will transport you by a private car to the century-old Daoxiangcun Foodstuffs Store, Beijing’s most famous snack and cake shop, to continue your gastronomic adventure. During the Qing Dynasty, the store baked sweet snacks for the royal family and government officials. Now, the store is a favorite of locals. You will find hundreds of snacks and cakes, from green tea cakes to rose cakes. The beautifully baked sweets will delight your taste buds!
You will continue to a visit to Hutong by rickshaw. Through the hutongs' teeming maze of alleys, you will see the old courtyard houses and learn about the daily life of ordinary Beijing citizens. Enjoy a tea ceremony and visit a local family.
End the tour and transfer you to the hotel around 5pm.

Note:

The approximate day tour itinerary & schedule above is for reference only, and may vary according to your travel date and group size. The Itinerary & schedule is subject to change at the time of booking order is confirmed.
Tipping is now considered by many locals to be a part of their normal remuneration. However, this is a matter of personal discretion. You may use following as a reference. Suggested Tipping: for local guide: $8 to $10 per person(guest) per day, for driver: $4 to $5 per person(guest) per day.

3Price Policy

Price Includes

Private car/coach for transfers service and sightseeing program as indicated in the itinerary.
Meals as specified in the itinerary (B=Breakfast L=Lunch D=Dinner).
Local English-speaking tour guide for transfers and sightseeing program as indicated in each city.
Entrance fees to scenic spots as indicated in the itinerary.
Service charge and government Taxes.

Price Excludes

Domestic airfare or train tickets.
Hotel accommodation.
Entry or exit China international airfare or train tickets.
Personal expenses such as laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities, etc.
Gratuities to the tour guide, driver and hotel bellboy.
Fees for entry visa to China.
Traveler insurance.
Services not mentioned in the itinerary.

Cancellation and Refund Policy for Tours Reservation

Cancellation in advance	Cancellation penalty
More than 30 days	No Cancellation Fee
30-10 days	50% of the full payment
9-0 days or no show	100% of the full payment

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5Reviews

Reviews (88% / overall satisfaction:)

Ms. Mr. Zale

(Greece)

Jul.18, 2012

Overall Satisfaction:

"hutong is as interesting as the cooking class": I would like to recommend this tour to all the visitors who are interested in Chinese cook and Chinese tradition. Hutong is so interesting as well as my wife’s cooking class. We really enjoyed this one day tour.

Ms. Ms Fiona

(India)

Jul.18, 2012

Overall Satisfaction:

"Great experience": Great! I was still excited about my cooking class. I was a skillful family woman, especially cooking, but still I cannot deal with those Chinese dishes haha.

Ms. Ms Lior

(Gambia)

Jul.18, 2012

Overall Satisfaction:

"special tour": A very interesting and special tour, although I don’t like cooking and I went to company my wife, I am happy that I would have some delicious dishes after we back home. If you are muslin you have to inform them in advance because it’s not a cooking lesson specially for muslins.

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