Three day cooking course

This is a practical course, so you will learn how to make finished dishes, as well as the basic methods. This course focuses on Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine, including traditional, home-style and stir-fried dishes.

The goal of this kind of course is to help you understand how different elements of Asian cooking fit together, so you express your creativity instead of simply following recipes without really understanding them. Then you will be able to mix and match the various techniques to make a wide variety of complete meals. This will also give you a firm basis for learning more on your own in future.

We start the class with soy bean milk -- as I very often hear from my Western guests, it's a healthy drink, and it's a very popular morning drink in Asia.

I will also talk about all the basic Chinese ingredients, so you will have a good idea about how to create Chinese cooking in future. Then I will use the basic ingredients to make some very simple dishes like soft tofu with Taiwanese dressing, and sour and spicy soup.

After introducing the basic ingredients. I will show you how to make the sesame paste, and a make few different noodle dishes based on it. But you can also use the sesame paste in western dishes, such as using it as a salad dressing or dipping sauce.

The dumplings we will make are based on bread dough (yeast dough). I assume most people are fairly familiar with bread dough. So after the class, you should be able to recreate how to make the dumplings very easily.

Day 1 - Basic Asian sauce/dressing/paste

Drinks
Soy bean milk

Basic ingredients introduction
Taiwanese dressing with soft tofu
Sour and spicy soup

Basic Taiwanese sauce/dressing/paste
Black sesame paste: Served with green vegetables
White sesame paste: Taiwanese sesame noodles
Spicy Sichuan flower pepper oil: Spicy pineapple
Spicy Sichuan sweet and sour dressing: Pickled cucumber

Day 2 - Dumplings/Pastry

Drink
Black sugar and ginger tea

Basic ingredients introduction
Garlic and sesame oil pickle cucumber
Toban pickle cucumber
Spinach, tomato and dumpling soup, serving with sauces

Pastry
Sweet black sesame buns
Green onion pancake
Shiitake mushroom, pumpkin and coriander dumplings

Day 3 - Traditional Taiwanese dishes

Drink
Chinese almond milk

Side dish / Dim sum
White Radish Cake (luo bo gao)

Stir fried dishes
Black beans stir fried with chives (Cāng yíng tóu)
Three cups oyster mushroom
Sweet and spicy soy bean paste stir fried with eggplant

Class Information

Language: English (Chinese or Taiwanese if required)
Cost: Our price for this standard three day class is NT$12,000 for one student (about US$400 or 300 Euros), and NT$21,000 for two students. Sorry, but we do not offer discounts for these classes.
Normal class size: 1 - 4 students (larger classes may be possible).
Time: Classes usually start at 10am or 1pm and last about four hours each day, so the total class time over three days will be about 12 hours. We will try to arrange the classes to fit your schedule.

Telephone: (02) 2720-0053
Address: 2F, 29-1 Zi Yun St, Taipei, Taiwan 台北市信義區110紫雲街29-1號2樓
Website: kitchen.j321.com
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