Chengdu Half-Day Cooking Class with Local Market Visit

This half-day cooking class meets at a central Chengdu location, confirmed upon booking, and is listed on Tripadvisor under a local operator running Sichuan cooking classes for visitors. The roughly four-hour session opens with a walkthrough of a local wet market, where the chef instructor identifies the chilies, peppercorns, and fresh produce used in the day's recipes and answers questions about how ingredients are chosen. From the market, the group returns to a teaching kitchen to cook several classic Sichuan dishes hands-on, with the menu weighted toward savory mains such as twice-cooked pork or mapo tofu alongside a stir-fried vegetable dish; there is no separate dessert course. Professional chef instruction covers knife technique, seasoning, and wok control before participants prepare each dish themselves. The class concludes with the group sitting down to eat the full spread of dishes they cooked. Included in the price are the market visit, chef instruction, all ingredients, and the closing meal; hotel transfers and gratuities are not included. Group sizes are kept small to allow the chef to give individual guidance, and the class is conducted in English. The pace is unhurried, built around the market visit followed by a structured but relaxed cooking session rather than a fast-paced demonstration. Vegetarian participants can generally have the meat-based dishes swapped for vegetable alternatives if the request is made when booking, since the market and kitchen stock both meat and vegetable ingredients suitable for substitution.