2050 days ago

cooking workshop: making dumplings

Mo from Hamilton East

Follow Mo & Garth showing you how to make your own dumplings, we provide all the recipes, ingredients and cooking facilities, step by step to teach you the whole process, limited to 10 people maximum in each workshop, to make sure everybody will be well instructed and get the skills, and you will have about 20 dumplings to take home after class.

When: 8th July, 1pm-4pm
Where: 16 Comries Road, the Wooden A Frame
Who: adults and children 11+ years old
How much: $20 per person
How to sign up: contact us to confirm your place then make the payment in advance.
Who we are: Mo is a Chinese and Garth is a Kiwi, we have operated our business “Reasons NZ Education” in Hamilton for many years, usually at this time of the year we have many Chinese children and adults here for short and long term education, COVID 19 put a stop to that !! So now we are putting our knowledge and skills to teach Hamilton people Chinese cooking, Dumplings are the first class, then we will try steam buns, Zongzi, and different Chinese dishes, something different every workshop.

Price: $20

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