Fend For Yourself: Chinese Cooking Classes over Chunjie

With restaurants closing for Spring Festival, you may be left making your own meals during the week. Don’t know how to cook? Well now’s the perfect time to learn. If you do know your way around the kitchen, here's a chance to expand your recipe repertoire to include various regional Chinese cuisines.

Jan 22

Chinese New Year’s Eve Dumpling Party
Plenty of dumplings to eat and wrap, friends and spiced wine. Spaces limited. Reserve at blacksesamekitchen@gmail.com. RMB 300. 7-10pm. Black Sesame Kitchen

Jan 23

Chinese Kitchen: Taste of China
Three different dishes from three different regions, with a focus on balance and teaching you how to incorporate different ingredients, flavors and cooking styles back into your own kitchen back home. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 10.30-1pm. The Hutong

Chinese Kitchen: Zhejiang
Zhejiang native, Chef Sue will introduce you to one of the eight great culinary traditions in China. The flavors in the cuisine are elegant and light, and it has a reputation for freshness, tenderness, and smoothness. As Zhejiang is coastal, seafood is prominent. Seasonal, local ingredients also dominate – especially bamboo. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 7-9.30pm. The Hutong

Jan 24

Chinese Kitchen: Essentials of Chinese Home Cooking
An interactive class for two hours of cooking and snacking while we explore some of the basics that keep a Chinese home kitchen going. You'll learn some of the typical dishes and concepts that simplify Chinese eating from day to day and especially take advantage of all the market goods available around town. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 7-9.30pm. The Hutong

Tuesday Cooking Class
Focus on a specific technique with both a demonstration and hands-on cooking, then proceed to eat what you made. Spaces limited. Reserve at blacksesamekitchen@gmail.com. RMB 300. 11am. Black Sesame Kitchen

Jan 25

Chinese Kitchen: Chinese Comfort Foods
This winter, learn to cook a variety of Chinese winter treasures which will warm the belly and bring comfort to the soul. Our winter comfort foods may not remind you of home - we are talking hot hearty lamb and date stews, braised chicken and chestnuts, steamy hong shao rous and steamed egg custards - but they are homestyle and homemade, and they will soothe your mind and fuel you with energy to fight the freezing cold. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 2-4.30pm. The Hutong

Chinese Kitchen: Contemporary Chinese
Learn Chinese cuisine with a creative fusion twist through combining authentic Chinese ingredients and flavors with Western cooking techniques and influences.. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 10.30-1pm. The Hutong

Chinese Kitchen: Tastes of Beijing
Beijing cuisine is often hearty and heavy, perfect for the cold winter months, or in the summer alongside a cold local Yanjing beer. Take an exciting culinary journey of the capital and explore the city you love through its best dishes. Learn how to make three classic local recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients, and also learn the story behind the recipes. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 7-9.30pm. The Hutong

Jan 26

Thursday Lunchtime Cooking
Focus on a specific technique with both a demonstration and hands-on cooking, then proceed to eat what you made. Spaces limited. Reserve at blacksesamekitchen@gmail.com. RMB 300. 11am. Black Sesame Kitchen

Jan 28

Chinese Kitchen: Gourmet Dumpling
Learn how to knead and roll the dough, to create gourmet fillings, to concoct natural dyes from fresh vegetables for colorful wraps for your stylish dumplings, as well as the stories behind one of the most prized and popular dishes enjoyed all over China. RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 2-4.30pm. The Hutong

Chinese Kitchen: Yunnan
An exquisite fusion of Han and Ethnic Minority culinary influences and Beijing’s “in-cuisine.” RMB 250, RMB 200 (members). 10-12.30pm. The Hutong

Hutong Cuisine
Chinese-focused classes resume with their morning market tour, condiment class and cooking class that will cover a mixture of Sichuan and Cantonese flavors. RMB 370 + extra for market tour and condiment class. Discounts available for groups of three-six. 8.30 am (optional market tour), 10.15am (cooking class). Hutong Cuisine (134 2631 7097)

Sichuan 1 Cooking Class
The Kitchen’s Saturday gourmet class focuses on Chinese cuisine with a kick. Spaces limited. Reserve at blacksesamekitchen@gmail.com. RMB 300. 1-4pm. Black Sesame Kitchen