Artisan Coffee Workshop with Jim Lee of Ocean Grounds This two-part course is for anyone interested in learning to appreciate and understand the technical and culinary aspects of artisan roasted and brewed specialty coffee. Ocean Grounds co-founder, CEO, and certified Q-grader Jim Lee will take you through an experiential sharing of knowledge of coffee that...
The Tea and Horse Trail – Reviving the Tea Road to Tibet Saturday June 9 3-5pm Cost: 100 RMB, 50 RMB for members – to sign up, click here. Join The Hutong and special guest, scholar-explorer Dr. Ed Jocelyn, for an afternoon introducing Yunnan Province’s legendary Tea and Horse Trail. For more than 1,000 years, mule caravans...
In conjunction with Jamie Oliver’s May 19th Food Revolution Day, The Hutong is ringing in the Spring with an organic food fair! This event will connect farmers and producers from the budding organic movement with the local Beijing community. The Hutong will offer talks on composting, urban farming, and growing organically in China, an “Organic...
You read right: The Hutong is launching a space program, to the land of exceptional events. How does it work? The next time you attend a workshop we will give you a selection of “fuel pods” that our spaceship needs to fill up on. The pods also allow you to rate your experience in real time,...
Take a culinary journey through the seemingly simple cookie and visit a pojangmacha in Seoul, a cukiernia in Warsaw, and a trip back in time to your elementary school cafeteria. The Hutong’s Cookie Story takes the world’s most cherished flavors and time-honored recipes, and turns them into the treat we all love. From Mexican Hot...
Want to go beyond the “that’s great” comment from family and friends to really find out what works and doesn’t work in your images? Want to learn from the masters on how they craft a stunning image and what it takes to do it? This 5 week course will cover the most popular genres that...
“Summer cocktails using fresh, seasonal Beijing ingredients” Expand your repertoire of mixed drinks with a seasonal take on some classics from drinks consultant, bar owner and writer Paul Mathew. After introducing the basic cocktail-making techniques and equipment, this workshop will show you how to make four classic cocktail variations using fresh, seasonal ingredients purchased that...
Everywhere you turn, you’re seeing the use of DSLR video cameras … music videos, commercials, television shows. But shooting video on your DSLR presents all sorts of new challenges. Whether it’s choosing the right lenses or knowing how many lights to pack, and how to edit the footage once you’ve shot it … the rules...
Learn to brew your own beer with the brilliant mind and brawny
hands that have brought Beijing an assortment of delicious, creative and exciting
brews, including the Three Door Trippel, Imperial Pumpkin, Chocolate Stout and Little
General IPA. Click here to read more about Carl Setzer and Beijing's own, Great Leap
Brewing.
Over the last hundred years China’s capital city Beijing has developed at an unprecedented pace. The population has grown from just 1 million to now more than 20 million. The city wall and its majestic gates are long gone. This change, from a dusty imperial capital to the ever growing megacity of today is very...