Top 12 Chengdu Cooking Classes

1.Half-Day Chengdu Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 465 reviews · from $90Our pick

Meet an English-speaking guide, explore Liangjiaxiang market, sample local ingredients, and learn Sichuan cooking in Chilli Cool’s clean kitchen. Guides Lance and Jerry help explain the spices and translate for the chef. You prepare several dishes, eat what you make, and receive recipes. Vegetarian options are available.

“We spent a great day with the Chili Cool team 🌶️🌶️🌶️! Jerry picked us up from the hotel and we had an amazing market tour where he patiently answered all of our questions. Communication in English was very easy and the food was very tasty! They even offered a vegetarian version for us. We can recommend the class 💯. Thank you so much for the great time!”

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2.Cooking Class with Fresh Market Half Day Experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 42 reviews · 4.5 hours · from $82

Meet your English-speaking guide at Liang Jia Xiang Station for a market walk, Sichuan tea, and a hands-on cooking class. Guides such as Lance and Jerry explain local spices, while the chef helps you prepare several dishes. Ingredients, drinks, recipes, and the final meal are included.

“We really enjoyed this class with Lance! He answered all our questions and translated effortlessly with the cook. Family friendly, couple friendly and even solo friendly. We enjoyed all the dishes we made and learning more about Sichuan cuisine as well as meeting some fellow travelers.”

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3.Half-Day steamed Buns Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 26 reviews · from $80

Spend four to five hours with an English-speaking guide visiting a Chengdu spice market and making Baozi in a traditional Sichuan courtyard kitchen. Learn about local ingredients, practice simple Chinese, enjoy Sichuan tea, and eat your handmade buns with beer or soft drinks. Guides including Lance and Jerry add a friendly personal touch.

“A great experience, the local market was fun, interesting and we got to try and use a little Chinese language. Lance our guide was great from start to finish and took lots of fabulous pictures which meant we could get with our cookery class. Read more”

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4.Half-Day Professional Mapo Tofu Cooking with a Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 19 reviews · from $69

Spend about four hours exploring a Chengdu spice market, then cook Sichuan mapo tofu at Chilli Cool’s professional kitchen. A guide such as Jerry leads the market visit and helps with the class, which is limited to 10 people. Tea, ingredients, drinks, a meal, recipes, and a souvenir are included.

“It was a very cool experience! Jerry, the tour guide, was very helpful throughout the experience, even before the activity had started. Before the experience had even begun, he reached out to clarify the different workshops that Chilli Uncool hRead more”

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5.Half-Day Sichuan Cooking Class Experience in Chengdu

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 17 reviews · from $83

Meet your English-speaking chef at 4 pm after hotel pickup and learn to cook four Sichuan dishes in a group of no more than five. Expect hands-on work with Kung Pao chicken, sweet and sour pork, Sichuan eggplant, and dumplings, plus a shared meal and recipe cards. English ability can vary, so flexibility helps.

“My boyfriend and I booked this about a day in advance. Samtours was quick to respond about arranging hotel pickup. The taxi driver was ontime and dropped us off at Holly's Hostel, which is close to Wuhouci and the Jinli walking street areRead more”

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6.Private Panda Tour with Cooking Class One-day Trip

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 11 reviews · from $123

Start at 7:30 am with an English-speaking guide and visit Chengdu’s Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, then enjoy a vegetarian lunch and Buddhist ceremony at a nunnery. Explore a local market before learning Sichuan cooking with a professional chef. Hotel pickup and drop-off are offered, and guide Jerry has received praise for his warm, flexible approach.

“This tour consists of three elements. A visit to a panda center, a visit to a monastery in the city center with a vegetarian meal and a preparation of some dishes with food bought at the market. Jerry was very enthusiastic and accommodating. Read moreAuto-translated”

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7.Half day Chengdu Dumpling Class: Make from Scratch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $70

Join guides such as Jerry or Lance for a four-hour Chengdu food experience. Explore a local spice market, choose ingredients, learn dumpling making with a professional chef in a traditional courtyard kitchen, then eat what you prepare with tea, beer, or soft drinks.

“Jerry started our tour with a nice introduction of Chengdu, before he took us to the food market where we could buy all our ingredients. We were the only 2 joining the sessions, and Jerry tailored the menu to our vegetarian preferences. He gRead more”

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8.Half-day Dandan Noodles Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $100

Spend about four hours exploring a Chengdu spice market, completing a hands-on ingredient challenge, and cooking dan dan noodles in a professional kitchen. An English-speaking guide such as Lance, Ocean, or Amy helps with the market visit, while a local chef leads the class. Hotel pickup is available within Chengdu’s second ring road.

“I offered this cooking class to my girlfriend as a birthday present, and it was beyond what I hoped for! Everything was perfect. The market visit was super interesting, and Lance took the time to explain everything, answer all our (numerous) Read more”

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9.Half-Day Private Hot-Pot Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $90

Join Lance and a professional chef in Chengdu for a private half-day hotpot class. Visit a spice market, sample local snacks, enjoy Sichuan tea, prepare spicy and non-spicy broths, and eat the meal you make. Pickup is offered, and the class lasts about four and a half hours.

“We had an amazing experience at Chilli Cool China. We started this incredible venture with Lance our tour guide from Chilli Cool China who from the moment we got picked up was engaging and delightful! We started our tour at the local sRead more”

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10.Half-day Chengdu Handmade Tofu Making and Mapo Tofu Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $90

Join Lance and Jerry in Chengdu for a 3 to 5-hour hands-on class. Visit a local spice market, drink Sichuan tea, grind soybeans with a stone mill, make tofu and tofu brain, then cook Mapo Tofu with a professional chef. Hotel pickup, recipes, drinks, tasting, and a group of up to 15 are included.

“Enjoyed touring the fresh food market with Lance, who shared his knowledge about all the various fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, spices and TCM. Afterwards we went to the workshop to experience the proper way to enjoy tea and Read more”

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11.Chengdu Sichuan Cuisine Cooking Class and Savor Local Snacks

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 2 reviews · 2.5 - 4 hours · from $54Best value

Spend 2.5 to 4 hours at Chengdu’s Sichuan Cuisine Museum with an English or Chinese guide. Tour old food displays, see the world’s largest Kitchen God Ancestral Hall, cook three Sichuan dishes in uniform, then eat your work with tea, snacks, and local drinks. You also get a rookie master chef certificate.

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12.Chengdu Dujiangyan Leshan Buddha Tea Plantation and Sichuan Cooking 3 Days

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2 reviews · from $433

Start with pandas and Dujiangyan, then see Leshan Buddha by boat, visit an old town and tea farm, and finish with a Sichuan cooking class. An English-speaking guide such as Lucy leads this small-group experience, with hotel pickup, transport, meals, tea, drinks, recipes, and souvenirs included.

“Myself, wife and adult daughter arranged a full day tour via China Highlghts to visit the Giant Buddha at Leshan, the rural village of Suji, picking tea leaves and teas at a teahouse. The trip took a total of 13 hours which we all enjoyed totally.”

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