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Shanghai Local Life Private Tour including Wonton Cooking Class
4 h
Private
With local
Class
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Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: CaoYang FengQing, Guixiang Road, Putuo District, Shanghai China
At 8:30 am, meet your guide at the lobby of your hotel in Shanghai city centre.
First you will visit Caoyang New Village, a local renowned community in Shanghai, which welcomes foreign friends to experience local Shanghainese's life. In their community center, you can see local people's cultural life like how to practice calligraphy, Chinese playing ping pong, local handicraft etc. It is like a window for foreigner to have a further understanding about Shanghaier's daily life.
Then, your guide will take you to visit the nearby wet market to see where the locals shop for their groceries. You’ll notice that the markets in Shanghai have a lot of ingredients which aren’t used outside of China, and your guide will help you explain what everything is.
After that, we will stop by the street stalls and casual local eateries to watch experts make the fresh wontons that you get to try. Depending on what’s available, you will be able taste the different samples. Along the way, your guide will explain the differences in taste, texture and cooking techniques of China’s bite-size snacks.
Then you will visit a local resident home, sit down with a cup of tea and talk with them with the help of a guide to know about people's life.
Lastly, you’ll have a 1-hour cooking class. During your cooking lesson, a local chef will introduce you some of the different Chinese Wontons, and how to make them. Throughout all the steps included in making these delights, you’ll gain valuable tips from your master instructor and learn about the differences between Chinese and Western-style cooking. You will also have lunch in their house including the wonton you made.
After this last activity, the tour ends and we will bring you back to your hotel.
Duration: 4 hours
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: CaoYang FengQing, Guixiang Road, Putuo District, Shanghai China
At 8:30 am, meet your guide at the lobby of your hotel in Shanghai city centre.
First you will visit Caoyang New Village, a local renowned community in Shanghai, which welcomes foreign friends to experience local Shanghainese's life. In their community center, you can see local people's cultural life like how to practice calligraphy, Chinese playing ping pong, local handicraft etc. It is like a window for foreigner to have a further understanding about Shanghaier's daily life.
Then, your guide will take you to visit the nearby wet market to see where the locals shop for their groceries. You’ll notice that the markets in Shanghai have a lot of ingredients which aren’t used outside of China, and your guide will help you explain what everything is.
After that, we will stop by the street stalls and casual local eateries to watch experts make the fresh wontons that you get to try. Depending on what’s available, you will be able taste the different samples. Along the way, your guide will explain the differences in taste, texture and cooking techniques of China’s bite-size snacks.
Then you will visit a local resident home, sit down with a cup of tea and talk with them with the help of a guide to know about people's life.
Lastly, you’ll have a 1-hour cooking class. During your cooking lesson, a local chef will introduce you some of the different Chinese Wontons, and how to make them. Throughout all the steps included in making these delights, you’ll gain valuable tips from your master instructor and learn about the differences between Chinese and Western-style cooking. You will also have lunch in their house including the wonton you made.
After this last activity, the tour ends and we will bring you back to your hotel.
Duration: 4 hours
Included
- Lunch
- Professional and Friendly English speaking guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Cooking class
- Transport by air-conditioned vehicle or minivan
Not included
- Gratuities
- Drinks
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Adult pricing applies to all travellers
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
80%
Food
80%
Original
40%
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Guide and driver picked us up in a very old minivan. The tour was then a visit to a small quite nice wet market, a stop at one dumpling restaurant where we had to pay for the dumplings by ourselves, and then the dumpling cooking. Here we were given flour and instructions by a very niece and friendly restaurant chef and his team. They showed us how to make the dumplings, but the filling was their secret recipe, so they did not tell us anything except that it's meat and vegetables. They then prepared the dumplings for us and we could eat them and received water upon request. The guide was friendly, but not helpful or knowledgable about food or dumplings, but if you're in China for the first time he might help to survive. The whole tour was ok but way too expensive.