Day 3 Chengdu

Atttractions: Local Spice Market, Cooking Class

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: No

After meeting your guide in the hotel lobby, he will take you on a tour of the dazzling local spice market and challenge you to obtain some special ingredients and spices that will be used later in the cooking class. After a fun experience at the local spice market, you'll walk through the alleys and sample real local cuisine for lunch.

After lunch, we will head to a secluded traditional Sichuan courtyard restaurant, where your ingredients and spices gathered from the market will soon come in handy. After a short rest in the courtyard, we will follow the traditional custom of serving Sichuan covered bowl tea. After learning about Sichuan tea culture, a professional chef will guide you in preparing the food. You will process the food step by step as instructed by the chef until it is ready. Cooking classes will teach you how to make Sichuan-flavored noodles, steamed beef with rice noodles and spicy loulan root, and you'll even learn to cook your own spicy oil.