We're developing a happy habit of booking cooking classes when nosotros vacation exterior Australia. Before I fifty-fifty got to researching our options inwards China, one-time Beijing resident as well as long-time friend Steph helpfully recommended The Hutong. These guys run a staggering gain of tours, events as well as classes alongside a mission to percentage civilisation as well as knowledge. If I were inwards Beijing for longer, I visit I'd mass a novel shape every month: there's baozi, xiao long bao, Chinese gourmet pancakes, dumplings, Cantonese, Sichuan as well as Yunnan menus, dimsum as well as eating theatre essentials!
Our express fourth dimension inwards the metropolis helped narrow our options, as well as I convinced Michael as well as Craig to bring together me inwards a shape for hand-pulled noodles (300 yuan AU$60 per individual for 2.5 hours). With a banker's complaint added to the booking form, the Hutong squad accommodated our lowest mutual dietary denominator (vegan) without whatever fuss. While they typically offering 10-12 places per class, the squad yet committed to hosting only the 3 of us when no-one else happened to sign upwards for the same session. It was a process to pick out our ain personalised vegan session alongside lots of attending to hone our technique.
These noodles are equally elementary equally they come: apparently wheat flour, a pinch of salt, as well as scant tablespoons of H2O until the dough only feels right. The primal hither is warm hands as well as patient work, bringing the dough together into a clean, slightly glutinous ball as well as kneading it for twenty minutes until it's really, actually smooth.
After a piddling residue (while nosotros prepared a sauce for the noodles), nosotros sliced the dough into fingers, thence rolled each 1 into a thick noodle using the palms of our hands. H5N1 liberal coating of vegetable fossil oil prevents the noodles from drying out or sticking to each other.
After some other sauce diversion, the existent fun began! Pulling the noodles calls for fast, calorie-free as well as confident hands to stretch the dough without excessively pinching the edges. We had enough of pinches, breakages as well as laughs equally nosotros prepared our outset uneven batch.
None were equally good misshapen to eat, though, alongside our teacher Sophia welcoming every 1 of our attempts into the pot of boiling water. H5N1 judicious chopstick helped proceed the noodles separated equally they cooked.
With our Lycopersicon esculentum as well as eggplant sauce all sorted, a smashed cucumber salad as well as some mutual coldness sodas magically appeared as well as nosotros sat downward to eat. Even noodles pulled past times our clumsy hands are good! The Hutong squad pick out convinced us that this is worth some other larn at home, as well as that nosotros should percentage our new, burgeoning science alongside friends.
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The Hutong
1 Jiudaowan Zhongxiang, Beixinqiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing cooking classes 300 yuan AU$60 per person
http://thehutong.com/
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