Sichuan express: New cooking tour in China
Food tourism is hot; Sichuan food is hot; this summer, prices on putting the two together are hot, too.
Lotus Culinary Tours, a US-based boutique tour operator with a local office in Chengdu, is marking its fifth year of operations with special rates on both its flagship five-day Chengdu Culinary Tour, with a full-day cooking class, and a new one-week Intensive Cooking Course, at China’s top culinary school.
Guests will learn how to make classic Sichuan dishes such as mapo tofu, dan dan noodles, gong bao chicken, and yuxiang eggplant at China’s top culinary academy, the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine.
Appropriate for beginning cooks, the authentic recipes and professional techniques are challenging enough to satisfy the most serious home cooks, Lotus says.
When guests aren’t cooking, they’ll be visiting local restaurants with Sichuan-born food guides, as well as meeting farmers and artisan producers at Chengdu’s traditional wet markets.
On a day trip, they will journey to the original producer of Pixian chili bean paste and meet the family that has been creating this "the soul of Sichuan cooking’ since 1666.
The fully escorted, five-day, four-night Chengdu Culinary Tour will run from October 14-18, 2013. Its per-person price of $1,095 includes full-day cooking class, boutique hotel lodging, ground transportation and all meals, based on double occupancy.
The tour will accept a maximum of eight guests to keep it highly personal and interactive.
For those whose first love is cooking, Lotus Culinary is launching a new one-week Intensive Cooking Course in Sichuan cuisine, where guests will spend five days mastering Sichuan dishes, following the same course that was designed for visiting students from the Culinary Institute of America.
The fully escorted one-week Intensive Cooking Course, from November 4-8, 2013, will cost $1,095 per person, including five days of hands-on cooking and all ground transportation and meals but not lodging. This course also will accept a maximum of eight guests
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