Overview
During this Panda+Cooking Class One-day Trip, you’ll visit Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base and see a great number of pandas ranging from infants to adults with your English-speaking guide. You’ll then visit a nunnery for vegetarian lunch with a special Buddhist ceremony. After that, you’ll visit a local market to learn some Sichuan spices and ingredients. Before cooking process, You’ll have local tea . After that, you will start cooking guided by a professional chef. Finally, you can enjoy the dishes along with some drinks. For it’s really interesting and fun, this class will be an unforgettable experience in your lifetime.
Schedule
Meet your guide at your hotel(7:30am) .
Panda Base Visit(about 2.5 hours) : You’ll see a great number of pandas ranging from infants to adults along with your English-speaking local guide.
Vegetarian Lunch in Nunnery(about 1 hour) : Finishing the Panda Base, you’ll ramble through back streets into a hidden nunnery for vegetarian lunch with a special Buddhist ceremony.
Local Spice Market Visit(about 1 hour):Your guide will take you into an appealing local market to explore it and you’ll find or obtain some necessary ingredients or spices that will be used in the cooking class afterwards.
The Cooking Process(about 2 hours): After finishing the spice market, you’ll ramble through back streets to the cooking class place, a hidden gem-a traditional Sichuan style courtyard. When you arrive there, you can have a break with Sichuan Gaiwan tea. After that, you’ll start the cooking process which will be guided by a professional chef.
The Dinner Time(about 1 hour): You’ll enjoy the dishes that cooked by yourself with some beers or beverages.
Inclusion
1. Entrance fees of Panda Base
2. English-speaking guide
3. Vegetarian lunch and self-made dinner
4. Food ingredients
5. Local tea
6. Beverages or beers
7. Food tasting
8. Recipes
9.Hotel pick up and drop off
CANCELLATION POLICY
Ours operate rain or shine. In periods of extreme or unsafe weather, we will cancel the tour at our discretion and provide a refund.
Join-in Tour Bookings: Bookings cancelled within 12 hours notice will not be refunded. If you would like to reschedule your join-in tour with less than 24 hours notice, we will need to charge 30% of your total for ingredients we prepared for you.