Yangshuo Cooking Class with Market Trip (Hans)

The Yangshuo Cooking Class with Market Trip is a four-hour hands-on class led by Hans, an independent cooking-class host in Yangshuo, Guangxi, and sold through Expedia and Travelocity as well as a guide-run page. The listings do not state how long Hans has been teaching, so no founding date is given here. The experience begins with a visit to a local market, where the group shops for ingredients, and then moves to a kitchen to cook Yangshuo's best-known dish, beer fish, alongside other local home-style dishes. Meeting and finishing point is the Guangxi Yangshuo Rural Cooperative Bank in Yangshuo County, and private transport between the meeting point, market and kitchen is included. Two slots are offered: a 10:00 session that ends with lunch and a 17:00 session that ends with dinner, so the meal is simply the dishes the group has cooked. The menu is savoury, built around freshwater fish simmered with local beer, vegetables and rice, and no sweet course is described. The price is included as ¥236-304 (roughly $35-45 USD) per person, with the lower figure on the guide-run page and the higher on an agent listing. Included are the market visit with ingredient shopping, the hands-on cooking, the meal, bottled water and snacks, and private transport. Beer, other alcohol, coffee and tea are not included and are paid for separately. Group size and the language of instruction are not specified in the listings, though the class is aimed at international visitors, and visitors should confirm both with the host. Dietary substitutions are not documented, so vegetarians, people avoiding fish and anyone with allergies should raise requirements when booking. The class works well as a half-day activity between sightseeing on the Li River and Yangshuo's karst countryside, and it gives visitors a practical way to learn how a regional dish is built from market ingredients rather than only tasting it in a restaurant.