The Hutong Kitchen
About The Hutong Kitchen

About The Hutong Kitchen

The Hutong is Beijing’s premiere culture exchange centre in the heart of the capital. We are a retreat where people meet and connect as in our motto “Sharing Culture, Sharing Knowledge”. In The Hutong Kitchen, we teach a variety of cuisines from within and beyond China’s borders. We always focus...
The Chinese Kitchen

The Chinese Kitchen

Take a gastronomic tour of China’s different regions and learn how to cook exquisite Chinese dishes from passionate chefs in our cozy, traditional hutong surroundings. Click here for more information about The Chinese Kitchen.
The Global Kitchen

The Global Kitchen

At The Hutong Kitchen, we offer a wide range of cooking classes from beyond China’s borders; experience how to prepare and create delicious dishes from Southern Asia and the sub-continent. Click here for more information about The Global Kitchen.
Culinary Tours

Culinary Tours

We lead a variety of culinary tours outside the kitchen, from Beijing’s wet markets tours to extended culinary tours around China and beyond. Click here for more information.
Our Chefs

Our Chefs

From a Pakistani restaurateur to a Caribbean entrepreneur to a Malaysian chef. Our team of chefs is diverse, but all are passionate about cuisine and sharing their knowledge. Click here to meet our team of Hutong Chefs.
Our Recipes

Our Recipes

All of our menus are created by our chefs and represent more than delicious dishes: behind each dish lies a story. Click here to read some menus from The Hutong Kitchen.
Private Events

Private Events

The Hutong Kitchen also specializes in private culinary events, from our signature “Hook N Cook” cooking competitions, to private cooking classes (and more). We invite you to visit our renovated courtyard home to take a tour and to see whether it is the right setting for your event. Click here...
Catering

Catering

The Hutong Kitchen now brings the most delicious foods our chefs have to offer to your home via our new catering service. From a small intimate dinner party to a big corporate event, we can customize a menu according to your taste and needs. Our Hutong Chefs offer a variety of gourmet menus...
The Hutong Corporate

The Hutong Corporate

The Hutong Corporate The Hutong Corporate Events with a cultural twist! Our private parties, team-building programs, charitable endeavors, corporate gifts, tours and retreats offer professional yet creative alternatives to basic company events.

Cooking Class Catch Ups

Homemade Organic Tofu

Homemade Organic Tofu

Learn to make creamy, fresh, silky-smooth tofu from scratch, as well as the key techniques to make your preferred variety, from a firm tofu that barely wobbles to a tofu so delicate it melts in your mouth. Our class will feature organic soybeans and will include one classic Chinese stir-fry tofu dish. We will give...
My Wife Is A Gangster

My Wife Is A Gangster

Food, Film and Friends: Global Cuisine and World Cinema. This month, a Korean cooking class followed by a Korean film screening.   There is far more to Kimchi than most people realize, and far more to Korean food than Kimchi. More so than other cuisines, spices and sauces are creatively combined to enhance flavors, and...
St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Special

St. Patrick’s Day Cupcake Special

© Lollipop Bakery Reason to celebrate #78: in addition to the wearing of green attire, St. Patrick’s Day, officially designated a feast day in the early 17th century,  was also characterized by the lifting of restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol just for that day during the period of Lent, so that the Irish could...
Chocolate Valentine's Feast

Chocolate Valentine’s Feast

JoinChef Sue and The Hutong gang as we whip up 3 gourmet fusion treats for all you chocolate lovers in Beijing: Chocolate and Orange Duck Nutella and Hazelnut Glutinous Rice Balls Banana Chocolate Dumplings Cost: 280 RMB/person or 500 RMB  for couples. Click here to register. Also, for our Chocolate Feast we are partnering with Hummingbird Spa,...
The Chicken Trilogy

The Chicken Trilogy

The Hutong is thrilled to bring you a three-part cooking series which will teach you to prepare poultry dishes with creative and culinary zeal, to impress friends and family alike. Our Chicken Trilogy will feature two quintessential Chinese recipes – Beggar’s Chicken and Hainan Chicken – and the third, an all new star – a...
Valentine's Day Cupcake Special

Valentine’s Day Cupcake Special

© Lollipop Bakery What better gift for the love of your life than the gift of sugar, spice, and everything nice? Join us at The Hutong for our special Valentine’s Day cupcake class. As a bonus, we’ll be placing a small surprise inside each of the cupcakes to make your special someone’s eyes light up...
Year of The Dragon 6 Course Special

Year of The Dragon 6 Course Special

Make a culinary commitment in the Year of The Dragon and take your cooking talents to the next level with our special package deal – any 6 cooking classes for 1100 RMB. The Hutong’s 6 Course Special is valid for both cooking classes and special workshops, and can be redeemed up until December 31, 2012....
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Food, Film and Friends (with Electric Shadows) Global Cuisine and World Cinema, Sunday Jan 19 The ultimate food and family film.  Ang Lee’s 1994 ode to family and good food is set in Taipei and revolves around an aging master chef and the love lives of his three adult, but unmarried, daughters.  Bursting with the director’s trademark combination of warmth...
The Chinese Kitchen: TCM Culinary Series

The Chinese Kitchen: TCM Culinary Series

Come join us in our kitchen and take a step into the realm of the nutritional wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine. While TCM adheres to no “one diet fits all” perspective, there are certain nutritional and culinary guidelines that you can learn and take back to your home kitchen. In each class you will learn...
Celebrate Christmas Twice!

Celebrate Christmas Twice!

Food, Film and Friends (with Electric Shadows) Celebrate Christmas Hutong style, and learn to cook a variety of Chinese winter treasures which will warm the body and bring comfort to the soul. Our winter comfort foods may not remind you of home – we are talking hot hearty lamb and date stews, braised chicken and chestnuts, steamy hong...
Dim Sum Delicacies

Dim Sum Delicacies

Learn the unique culinary art of Dim Sum, and how to prepare tasty Southern delicacies that are reminiscent of the traditional style Chinese teahouse brunch, without the clamor and bustle. Our Dim Sum workshop highlights the ingenuity and variety of Cantonese ‘small eats,’ while steering clear of the more exotic ingredients and focusing on a...
Dreams of Wine and Duck

Dreams of Wine and Duck

Every two months The Hutong and The World of Chinese are teaming up to bring you a culturally enriching and delicious cooking class. The World of Chinese is a bi-monthly English magazine dedicated to Chinese language and culture. Their pages are filled with personal experiences, human interest and the lighter quirkier side of all things Chinese. In our second installment,...