Private Tour

Private Dumpling Cooking Class in Xi'an Local Family

Overview

Available languages

German

Chinese (Taiwan)

Chinese

English

Italian

French

Spanish

4 hours

Mobile ticket

Visit a local Xi'an family and experience their daily life.You will learn how to make traditional, home-made style dumplings plus two or more other traditional dishes with the family members and share the special meal and conversation with host family. You will visit local food markets to see fresh vegetables, food and meats, this visit will show you where the ingredients for your meal are from.

This tour is the best way to experience a half day as a Xi'an local! You will learn some home-made style easily cooking dishes even you can cook for your family and friends when you come back home!

Hotel pickup and drop off, half day class tour and lunch or dinner are all inclusive in this tour.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Children must be accompanied by an adult

Infant (1-3 years old) are free providing they do not occupy a seat

Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking

Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What To Expect

Your friendly private guide will meet you in your hotel lobby in the morning or afternoon based on your booking request. Prior to visiting the local family, your guide will show you around the local wet markets nearby. Upon arrival to the local family home, you will start preparing your own dumpling plus 2 local dishes (scrambled egg with tomato; Sautéd soy sauce cabbage or green bean with pork ). Please make your favorite choice upon booking, and you must advise if you have any food allergies or special food requests in advance. Dumpling making and 2 dishes During this fun local family visit, you also have an opportunity to speak to their kids in English, Chinese or even by body language! This surely is a great cultural dining experience as part of your stay in Xi'an. After your tour is finished, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Sample Menu

main

Soursweet fried tomato with egg

dessert

Dumpling making

main

Quickly fried meat with green bean

starter

Green vegerables dishes

What‘s Included

Private English speaking guide

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Cooking class and Dining meal in local family

Lunch or Dinner

If need Spanish/French/Italian/German guide, it will cause 400RMB extra, note us 3 days before tour

Gratuities

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Options

PM Dumpling Class+Dinner

Pickup included

AM Dumpling Class+Lunch

Pickup included

Reviews

5.00

3 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Private family cooking class
Doloresfisherman,,Oct 3, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
What a treat! So much better than we had hoped. Our guide, SunPing, picked us up and promptly at our hostel and drove us to the wonderful market to purchase all of the freshest foods. She was very accommodating to our wishes in the food choices.. We visited a local supermarket to see the contrasts. We then went to the home of the local family where we met our hostess who had done some of the preparation already. The lesson in making dumplings began. Sun ping is wonderful! She is a very good teacher full of energy and encouragement. Her English is excellent and she is a natural teacher. Not only did we get a lesson in food preparation we also got a great lesson in Chinese culture and history and customs around food. The meal was so good and full of variety. I can not recommend it highly enough.
So much fun!!
Travelmama76,,Aug 31, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
My son and I enjoyed a fabulous cooking class, with our amazing guide, Sunday, and a local mother-daughter pair. We started with a shopping trip to the local markets, then made three dishes, plus a huge pile of dumplings! We loved the chance to visit in a local home, and of course, the food was phenomenal. It felt like a visit with friends, not a "tour." This was definitely one of the highlights of our trip!
The Highlight of Our Trip to China (Yes, Even Better Than The Great Wall!)
Stela D,,Aug 14, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
When we returned from China (Beijing and Xi'an) and our friends asked us what the highlight of our trip was, we told them the four-to-five hours we spent with the local family learning to make dumplings, cooking a few traditional dishes, sharing a (large) meal, and discussing life in China. This was by far the most interesting and memorable portion of our nine days in China and we highly recommend you ask for Cindy to take you on this tour and introduce you to one of the local families she knows in Xi'an. Cindy made both our family and the host family feel at ease and in no time we were sharing food, drinks, and conversation as if we were old friends. Not only did we get a hands-on lesson from the family in making traditional Chinese dumplings but we were able to talk to them -- via Cindy and the family's daughter who spoke English -- about their life in China. We could have stayed at their apartment all evening but eventually left with full stomachs and happy hearts. The portion of the tour prior to our time with the family was spent at a local market where Cindy provided great insight into the local culinary tradition and what each of the products in the market were used for. In all, it was an exceptional tour, for both the wonderful food and the great insights into local Chinese culture. Ensure you ask for Cindy to take you on this tour.