Kathy and I ventured Friday morning to a hutong in the downtown area. We got dropped off by a cab and waited for the lady who lead the class to meet us so we could go to the market with her. What an experience! i have to admit i got a little queezy seeing all the meet lying/hanging around the market......i am not big on raw meat, but it was neat to see and learn about all the other items. We bought all our ingredients to make Chinese Dumplings-called joutza (i am not even close on the spelling in know).
We then walked back to the hutong where our teacher lives...met up with 3 other people who were in Beijing visiting. Then our cooking experience began. We learned how to make joutza from scratch....i made chicken/corn/carrot ones and kathy made beef/celery/onion ones. Both were incredible! i hadn't reallly found any dumplings i liked up to that point.-these were VERY good!After teaching us how to make joutza-our teacher whipped up some chinese stir-fry noodles in a wok. amazing what you can in less than 10 minutes! She makes it look so easy-again the food was verygood. We were there from about 8:30-2 and then headed home-both ready for a nap!
In the pictures you can see a little bit of the hutong where we made our food-it was neat to see the inside of a hutong-there are not many left in the city at this point.....most are destroyed and then highrise apartments are built and the people are moved into there. I would like to take a hutong tour sometime, but this experience was a great start!
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