Private Cultural Experience: Dinning with a Beijing Local Family
Beijing, China
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Trip Type: Cooking Classes
Duration: 4 hours
Visit a typical Beijing family household for a home-cooked meal, and then explore the backstreets of Beijing with a guide, meeting locals and experiencing popular local Vegetable and Fruit Market. A fascinating insight into Chinese hospitality and culture, the 4-hour tour is the perfect experience if you want to discover Beijing like a local. Feast on a 3-course meal,with local beer or Baijiu(Beijing Liquor), explore off-the-beaten-path streets. It is a private tour just for you or your party, ensuring personalized attention from a guide.
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Visit a typical Beijing family household for a home-cooked meal, and then explore the backstreets of Beijing with a guide, meeting locals and experiencing popular local Vegetable and Fruit Market. A fascinating insight into Chinese hospitality and culture, the 4-hour tour is the perfect experience if you want to discover Beijing like a local. Feast on a 3-course meal,with local beer or Baijiu(Beijing Liquor), explore off-the-beaten-path streets. It is a private tour just for you or your party, ensuring personalized attention from a guide.
Meet your guide in your hotel lobby, and then stroll through the streets to visit a local family, learn about traditional customs and, most importantly, sample some of their home-cooked cuisine.
Lunch or dinner and tea is ready and waiting, so after meeting your hosts, tuck straight into the food. Ingredients vary, and expect at least 3-course dishes that are cooked in many local Beijing families. Classic dishes include slices of potato chips in the vinegar sauce or a dish featuring minced meat and vegetable with rice or noodle.
While enjoying your food, chat with your friendly hosts about life in Beijing, hearing about the city, its culture and cuisine. While non English is spoken in the household, your bilingual guide will help translate, letting you experience the famous Chinese hospitality first hand.You are welcome to try the famous Beijing Liquor-Baijiu which is beween 40-56% of Alcohol.
Bid your hosts a fond farewell, and work off your food with a stroll through the hutong allays, away from the main tourist sites. Have your camera ready to capture photos of picturesque traditional houses, and learn about the city’s different residents and the sub-cultures that exist. Beijing Hutongs are the old traditional alleys and thousands of lanes weaving in between the courtyard homes surrounding the Forbidden City where most Beijing residents used to live.Although many still remain, the old Hutongs are sadly being replaced by high-rise buldings to give way to the modernization of Beijing.
Afterwards, visit a local fruit and vegetable market, to see local's everyday life and purchase. At the end of the trip you are free for personal exploration or your guide will take you back to your Beijing city hotel.
Lunch or dinner and tea is ready and waiting, so after meeting your hosts, tuck straight into the food. Ingredients vary, and expect at least 3-course dishes that are cooked in many local Beijing families. Classic dishes include slices of potato chips in the vinegar sauce or a dish featuring minced meat and vegetable with rice or noodle.
While enjoying your food, chat with your friendly hosts about life in Beijing, hearing about the city, its culture and cuisine. While non English is spoken in the household, your bilingual guide will help translate, letting you experience the famous Chinese hospitality first hand.You are welcome to try the famous Beijing Liquor-Baijiu which is beween 40-56% of Alcohol.
Bid your hosts a fond farewell, and work off your food with a stroll through the hutong allays, away from the main tourist sites. Have your camera ready to capture photos of picturesque traditional houses, and learn about the city’s different residents and the sub-cultures that exist. Beijing Hutongs are the old traditional alleys and thousands of lanes weaving in between the courtyard homes surrounding the Forbidden City where most Beijing residents used to live.Although many still remain, the old Hutongs are sadly being replaced by high-rise buldings to give way to the modernization of Beijing.
Afterwards, visit a local fruit and vegetable market, to see local's everyday life and purchase. At the end of the trip you are free for personal exploration or your guide will take you back to your Beijing city hotel.
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