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Baozi Workshop: Crafting Chinese Steamed Buns
5.0
25 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!
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:
24 hours
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…
- 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
- Market tour
- Food ingredients
- Lunch or dinner based on your class schedule
- Light refreshments
- Beverages/beer
- English speaking guide
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Meal Options
- Bao Zi
- Bao Zi
Additional Information
Steamed buns, known as “baozi,” are a cherished Chinese treat, featuring a soft, fluffy dough filled with either savory or sweet ingredients, providing a delightful combination of textures and flavors. Participate in our 4-5 hour Baozi workshop for an unforgettable culinary experience! Explore a bustling spice market, engage in exciting challenges, and…
Steamed buns, known as “baozi,” are a cherished Chinese treat, featuring a soft, fluffy dough filled with either savory or sweet ingredients, providing a delightful combination of textures and flavors. Participate in our 4-5 hour Baozi workshop for an unforgettable culinary experience! Explore a bustling spice market, engage in exciting challenges, and discover the vibrant spices of Sichuan. Relax with local tea in a traditional setting, then learn to make baozi in a cozy kitchen under the guidance of a skilled chef. Enjoy your handmade buns accompanied by a refreshing drink. This hands-on experience combines culture, learning, and delicious rewards into one enriching and enjoyable journey!
- 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
167 Yi Huan Lu Bei San Duan
Yi Huan Lu Bei San 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 9am, afternoon class is 2pm, evening class is 5pm.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Meyrick
Oct 20, 2025
A great introduction to the local cuisine! - Litchichi was a very friendly and informative guide. We started off with a tour of the local food market, tasting a few snacks, with Litchichi answering all my questions of the food items on sale I was uncertain of, before heading to Chilli Cool China's well laid out kitchen situated nearby. I got to prepare and cook 5 local Sichuan dishes all cooked in a wok - including vegetarian, pork, and tofu options guided by Aunty Lee with Litchichi translating. They all tasted great, and I was provided with recipes to try again at home at a late stage. Definitely a fun course, and worth considering whilst visiting Chengdu!
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Lifeisbeaut
Sep 14, 2025
Great experience with people passionate about local food and what they do - This was a great experience and definitely worthwhile. We had Jerry and Helena take us around the market and then do the bao class. They were fantastic company in that they had lots of knowledge and are so passionate and enthusiastic about what they do. They were entertaining and interesting and kind which really made the whole experience so much better. The local market was nice and then serving tea and fruit was great, along with making the baos, which are not so easy to make but hey made it fun and then sent through photos after. I would highly recommend this a a great experience with people who are so passionate about what they do and about the local food.
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Monicavf9845if
Mar 4, 2025
Exciting tour of Chengdu local market with really fun cooking class! - We did tour reviews with Chili Cool China in the same day, which were both amazing, but I’m going to leave separate reviews for both. We met our first guide, Jerry, for this bao bun making class in our first morning in Chengdu. He started off by walking us around the city and introducing the cuisine. He got us a few street foods to try, which were really unique and interesting. Then he took us to the market, and shared his vast knowledge on staples of Sichuan food, from spices to meat to vegetables. Rather than only tell us bao bun specific foods, he took us all around the market explaining Chengdu’s amazing food as a whole, and giving us tastes of different things like pickled vegetables, special cooked meats, and the like. Then, we went to Chili Cool’s location near there and were given some tea before starting the cooking class. They showed us the different spices and fillings we could choose, and helped us pick what we wanted in our bao buns. We helped make the filling and the dough, and were taught how to close the buns and cook them. They also gave us side dishes we could try, and we had a feast at the end and took home the leftovers. It was so tasty and fun, and our guide Jerry was hilarious and lively for the whole experience. He made the class really fun and enjoyable! Chili Cool is fantastic, and given that we did two tours in one day I can confidently say that this is a company that does amazing work and strives to give a great experience every time.
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Traveler160815
Nov 20, 2024
A wonderful experience for the whole family! - We attended the cooking class as a family (parents + teenager boy). We can say that this was one of our highlights on our 14 day trip to China. Our guide Lance picked us up on time at the agreed meeting point. We then walked around a local market together. We particularly liked the many goods on offer. Lance went to a lot of effort to explain everything to us, as many foods and dishes were completely unfamiliar to us.
Then it was time to cook. We really had a lot of fun and laughed a lot. It's really harder than we thought ! Of course, you get the recipe and the list of ingredients and we have already cooked the buns at home.
Thank you very much for this wonderful day and best wishes from Berlin!
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Mariesj9711fp
Nov 5, 2024
Really recommended - fun, educational, delicious - This was a terrific experience - our guide Jerry was so warm and friendly and the time flew by - one of the best things we did in Chengdu! The market was very interesting and we learned a lot from our guide's explanation and were able to try different foods that we hadn't tried before. The Chili Cool space is well-decorated and very clean. We had a little tea break before going into the kitchen. Learning to prepare the buns was fun (even though neither one of us was particularly good at it, there's real artistry involved ;)) and the chef showed us how different sauces were made as well as how other ingredients were prepared. At the end, we also enjoyed eating the buns and talking with our guide and other guests. This was relaxed, fun, and educational - really recommend Chili Cool.
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708netan
Oct 11, 2024
Excellent experience - The tour and cooking were great fun! We learned a lot. Many thanks to the great team for the quality time and patience
We would love to come again
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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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