Cooking Class - Shanghai-Style Fare

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$ 75 Per person

all-inclusive: 3-hour class, 3-course meal.

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What You’ll Do

Learn how to create your favorite dim sum dishes at home with Chef Wei.

In this hands-on cooking class, Chef Wei will teach you the traditional techniques to prepare popular dim sum from start to finish, including how to make a popular starter and how to create homemade noodles.

You will begin the meal by making a crowd-pleaser — savory scallion pancakes or pan-fried brown sugar cakes — followed by classic Shanghai noodles featuring stir-fried meat, shrimp and fresh vegetables. Finish the meal with a classic soup studded with vegetables.

Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.

Your Menu

Appetizer

Choice of 1

Crispy Pan-Fried Scallion Cakes

or

Pan Fried Brown Sugar Cakes

Shanghai Noodles

Handmade noodles stir-fried with meat, shrimp and vegetables

Gangnam-Style Soup

With vegetables

Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Details

Minimum Guests 2
Maximum Guests 8
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Asian, Chinese, Couples, Fun, Group

Meet your chef

Chef Wei

Food safety certified

17 reviews

A naturally gifted chef, Chef Wei has garnered recognition for the fun, educational dim sum cooking classes that she has hosted for years. A dim sum expert, she is also skilled at baking, specializing in other traditional Chinese dishes like dumplings, bao and pancakes. With Chef Wei's guidance, you'll learn to create stunning dishes that rival those of your favorite restaurants, all while having a great time.

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Cancellation Policy

Flexible booking: Cancel or reschedule this event's reservation for free up to 48 hours before the event.

What You’ll Do

Learn how to create your favorite dim sum dishes at home with Chef Wei.

Your Menu

Appetizer

Choice of 1

Crispy Pan-Fried Scallion Cakes

or

Pan Fried Brown Sugar Cakes

Shanghai Noodles

Handmade noodles stir-fried with meat, shrimp and vegetables

Gangnam-Style Soup

With vegetables

Details

Minimum Guests 2
Maximum Guests 8
Meal Courses 3
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Asian, Chinese, Couples, Fun, Group

COVID-19 protocols this chef will implement are:

Social Distancing Friendly

Reviews

Reviews guests left for this experience

Matteo

17 Feb 2025

Gifted this experience to my wife. At the moment of booking, Wei accepted to replace the onion crispy cake with a kind of "gyoza" I showed by picture. The day of the class, another couple was with us, and Wei decided to do only what listed on the experience: no "gyoza", she said that she would have send me the recipe thereafter (why do I need to come to a class then???). Apart from this, the onion crispy cake was just flour mixed with green onion, the soup was OK and then noodles were OK too. Too priced, I would have preferred to know it before. I would not pay half of the original price was such experience. Not recommended.

elena

17 Jun 2024

This was not what we expected. Not a cooking class but mostly a demonstration. If your expectation is to have a hands on cooking lesson with a professional chef, please contact Linda to discuss the details ahead to avoid any surprises. At the end Linda was very accommodating and food was great. I just wished to know at the beginning that this is not a cooking session with a professional chef to adjust my expectations.

Warner

21 Jun 2022

Chef Wei went above and beyond for us! What a wonderful birthday experience. Would definitely recommend her!

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Lisa

21 Jul 2024

We had a wonderful time with Chef Wei. We loved learning how to balance the flavors of pot stickers and soup dumplings. It was also great to learn how to properly fold and wrap the different dim sum. I know we will be attempting these recipes at home. She was a gracious host, and a kind and patient teacher. Would highly recommend.

Sean

28 Dec 2022

We had a great class with Chef Wei! She was patient, informative, and knowledgeable. The food was amazing, and we learned so much! I would definitely recommend taking this class for anyone looking to learn some authentic and simple dim sum recipes.

Abby

12 Dec 2022

very fun class making pot stickers and soup dumplings. everything was delicious!!

Alyssa

21 Nov 2022

Chef Wei was absolutely amazing and so accommodating! We had such a nice evening and learned some great tips and techniques, especially with making our own wrappers. Thank you so much for a very special experience!

Lacey

09 Oct 2022

Loved learning how Boba is made!

Zach

26 Sep 2022

We learned a lot from our lesson with Chef Wei! She taught us techniques on how to make the dumpling wraps from scratch and how to wrap and style the dumplings. She did all the chopping which let us focus on learning to make the dumplings. My wife was very excited to learn to make the sesame balls and it was nice to see how to make them in a more healthy way. If Chef Wei has new lessons, we definitely will join again.

Rene

23 Sep 2022

Chef Wei was wonderful and accommodating of our food allergies. Really customer focused and worked hard to make sure our experience was special. We had extenuating circumstances and she was understanding.

Glen

11 Sep 2022

Chef Wei was kind, patient and knowledgable. The food was incredible. 100 percent recommend Chef Wei

Israel

05 Aug 2022

Chef Wei was an excellent teacher! The class was a unique experience that makes you feel at home all while learning from a highly skilled and sweet chef. The class was the perfect choice for date night for my wife and I, we will definitely be doing this again!

Ethar

27 Jun 2022

It was not what I was expecting. I thought it would be an actual cooking class where you get to cook. We actually didn’t do any cooking. She demonstrated most of the dishes like a private chef. If I knew it would be like that I would have not reserved it. Plus I put in the notes that one person does not eat pork. She decided to use beef which is something I don’t really eat often. I mainly eat chicken. The one thing I did not like is that when she would use chopsticks to mix the pork with the other ingredients she used the same chopsticks to mix the beef with the other ingredients. I had explained before we started that pork makes me sick. She had almost mixed in gelatin which contained pork feet with the beef until I pointed it out. Today my stomach has been upset. I am cautious with what I eat since I have a sensitive stomach. I doubt I will be doing this again.

Cherie Chaney

20 Jun 2022

Chef Wei is an authentic chef that created a great Father's Day meal and wonderful memory for our family.

Reviews Chef Wei received outside of Cozymeal

Richard

02 Jun 2022

Had a great experience! Chef Wei makes all her dough from scratch and makes cooking chinese food as simple as making a PBJ sandwich! She is patient and friendly, and will supply everything you need for the experience!

Andrew

01 Jun 2022

Chef Wei was WONDERFUL! When the family of 4 of us arrived Chef had everything laid out for us and gave an overview of what we'd be doing. She was very informative as we asked questions about her technique in the few things that she had prepped for us before hand. Throughout the process we were all hands on to make the recipe, each getting to try out each piece of the process. What truly set this experience apart was the follow up with some recommendations locally for ingredient shopping and the recipe straight to our email. We can't wait to all get together again so we can use the skills we learned. Such a fun class, thank you!!

Nicole

14 Apr 2022

Chef Wei is an experienced culinary instructor with her specialty being dim sum. She is a delight to learn from and her dishes are just as enjoyable. I enjoyed learning a new cuisine type from Chef Wei.