Hong Konger Cookery Class

About this course

Participants work together on a selection of Hong Kong dishes, choosing one recipe to focus on while moving around the kitchen and contributing to the wider meal. The menu may include dumplings, braised vegetables, curry fish balls, jasmine rice and mango pomelo sago, with vegetarian and vegan dishes available on the listed menu. The class uses a family-style format, combining guided preparation with opportunities to learn from the other recipes being made. The session concludes with participants, the chef, facilitator and volunteers eating the meal together.

What you'll learn

• Prepare a selected Hong Kong dish from the class menu.
• Follow recipes for a range of savoury and sweet Hong Kong dishes.
• Contribute to the preparation of a shared, multi-dish meal.
• Recognise how different ingredients are used across the featured recipes.

Is this course right for you?

The course is listed as suitable for all levels. Participation involves working as part of a group, focusing on one dish while helping with others, and sharing the completed meal in a family-style setting.

• Most of the listed menu is vegetarian, but one dish contains lamb and another contains fish.
• The format involves moving around the kitchen and contributing to several dishes.

Before you go

• The menu is subject to change.
• Listed allergens include celery, crustaceans, fish, gluten, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soya and sulphites.
• The Lo Han Zhai contains Shaoxing rice wine.
• Dietary requirements should be communicated in advance, but ingredients will not be substituted, so the menu must suit individual dietary needs.