Hi again. On next Wed (Sep 17) at 1pm, we are going to have a group study about a very special Chinese dish called jiaozi (dumplings). It's a complicated and time-consuming job needs team-work, because we are going to start from how to use flour to make the dumpling skin. Anyway, it would fun! We can do traditional and alternative styles cooked in three different ways. Anyone interested is more than welcome to join us. Pls grab some brunch and we can eat the jiaozi together afterwards!
I'd like to say my cooking classes are home-based, meaning unlike those professional cooking training institutions with big title chefs as trainers, my teaching happens in a small kitchen and the food I teach are just daily dishes on Chinese tables. My dishes may not be as fancy as those star hotels', but my core idea is everyone is able to cook if they want to and my motive of doing this is to teach and encourage expats to cook simple Chinese food while having lots of fun.
In terms of cookers and ingredients I use are like any other Chinese families. Practically speaking I hope my participants can find all they need for cooking Chinese food very easily. Else, what's the point if people can't perform their cooking after class? For example like the dish you mentioned: ants climbing up a tree (蚂蚁上树), my cooking needs glass noodles, pork mince, preserved chopped chili (糟辣子 in local dialect), leak, garlic and salt. That's all. I can't imagine an ordinary Chinese family would use more than 20 ingredients to cook just one simple dish. I guess if so, it will more or less kill people's passion and confidence to cook, which I want to avoid the most.
Besides, I always write bilingual names of a dish and mark some ingredients in both languages. Last year in Ningbo, my participants always called me when they went shopping, asking me to explain to shop assistants what they are looking for. This triggered an idea of a trip to markets with participants, which might be extra help on top of English receipts.
Basically, my classes work with small groups no more than three students at a time. My main consideration is each participants should do some practice and we will have some communication (not necessarily about cooking, sometime I told them stories behind a dish, or casual conversations) during the process. If it's one to one, we will do one or two dishes each time, depending the dish is easy and time consuming or not. And if there are two or three participants, each time we can do three dishes at least or team work complicated dishes. Some people enjoy group study, while some don't. Anyway, I didn't count how long each class was last year, because each of my participants is very special: an Indian housewife came twice a week to learn four dishes to take away; a British couple came on weekend afternoons, learning team work dishes like Jiaozi (饺子); a French girl always came before dinner time and we usually invited her to join our family dinner and had a couple of drinks afterwards.
Thanks "English Tutour" for clearing up the situation. First of all, as far as I understood, Anne is the lady who started this topic two years ago. My name is Jessie and I wish I could get the same reputation as hers someday. Secondly, yes, like "English Tutour" said, the price is not purely for what food cost. It includes lots of preparation in advance and teaching the knowledge and cooking skills side by side. Thirdly, in fact last year in my cooking classes, some new people joined and some quit and some came back later again. It's not like other study that you have to attend constantly, because each class is not strongly related to another and participants bear various objectives, housewives coming for learning local style of cooking for their families, young or single people coming for fun, couples coming for spending time together in a different way. Anyway, no matter the readers' focus is price or whatever, I ask you to read my plan carefully please, trying to get the idea of what I'm doing. Then from there, we could actually talk/discuss. Else, it's just wasting everybody's time.
Hi there. Anyone wanna learn Chinese cooking? I would love to provide teaching in my apartment. I used to work and live in many places of China, so I can cook different styles, such as spicy food from southwestern provinces like Sichuan and Yunnan, various kinds of noodles/wheat-made food from northwestern provinces like Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, stewed food and dumplings (jiaozi) of northeastern China and so on. In short, I'm not a professional chef but I love cooking and I cook every day. The only problem is my kitchen is small, so maybe I can only teach two or three people at a time.
Some background about myself: I'm a local bilingual speaker (Chinese and English) from a mix-raced family. I used to work for non-profit organizations in fields of environmental protection, health education, community development, etc. and now I'm a free lance translator working from home due to my one year old baby. Anyway, for long time, I've had this idea that I can share my hobby-cooking with those who are interested in my culture and develop it as a Chinese cooking teaching club step by step. And I even started teaching quite a few foreigners who enjoyed my classes very much last year in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Unfortunately, we had to stop because of my delivery and later that year my husband and I moved back to my hometown here.
My short-term plans (open to your suggestions or ideas):
1. The class can be started ASAP. Students are greatly welcome to arrange a time with me according to their own working hours (Tuesday afternoons after 3 pm and Sundays are usually not available).
2. After a while, small groups (three persons) can be organized and come to my place on a regular basis. For example, one group can focus on southwestern food and members can change to another group later when they are fed up with food from a certain region and they wanna to learn another style of cooking.
3. Some extra classes are available like shopping Chinese cooking ingredients/spices in local markets, or tasting party will be hosted mainly for students or groups to share their study experience and cooking with others. And of course, it's an occasion to meet people, exchange food and culture from your own country and enjoy happy hours together.
How does it work:
1. Communication in advance what specific dish I will teach or students are interested to learn. I can try to do some research and tell the story about the dish say like how it was created, why it was named like this if there are any.
2. RMB 100 for each person each time all inclusive. I will prepare materials/ingredients and other needed equipment. Students can eat what they cooked together afterwards.
3. English recipes will be provided for students to practice after class at home or you are welcome to practice at my home (RMB 50 for each person each time) if you don't have a kitchen.
4. Contact me right away and start your Chinese food journey! jessiezhou636@hotmail.com; 18469180513
PS. My apartment locates in Yunnan Yingxiang in the north, two bus stops away from a Walmart and subway Linyuqiao stop, or 5 bus stops from Metro, the supermarket.
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