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The Hutong
Who We Are

Who We Are

The Hutong is Beijing’s culture exchange center in the heart of the Chinese capital. A retreat for expats, foreigners and locals to meet and connect. Our mission is to provide exceptional cultural experiences in a fun learning environment, and we welcome you to click on the links below to find...
The Hutong Kitchen

The Hutong Kitchen

At The Hutong we offer a wide range of cooking classes from within and beyond China’s borders. Experience how to prepare and create delectable dishes from Southern Asia and the Sub-Continent. Our Asian cuisine cooking classes include: Asian Tapas, Burmese, Caribbean, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Southeast Asian, and Thai. Visit our calendar to see what’s...
The Hutong Corporate

The Hutong Corporate

The Hutong Corporate Events with a cultural twist! Our private parties, team-building programs, charitable endeavors, corporate gifts, tours and retreats offer professional yet creative alternatives to basic company events.
Hutong Membership

Hutong Membership

Becoming a member is easy - 200 RMB for a year of discounted programs, special events and more. As a small enterprise, we hope to continue in our efforts to serve your needs first as best we can. Thank you for continuing to support our community center. We look forward...
Travel Beyond The Sights

Travel Beyond The Sights

Special Interests, Extraordinary People! From Desertification in Inner Mongolia, to Luxury Homestays at The Great Wall, to our Pu'er Bicycle Challenge, we specialize in trips with a difference. We organise tailor made tours for schools, special interest groups, corporations or families ...
Go With The Flow

Go With The Flow

At The Hutong we offer a variety of healthy courses that allow you to have fun, exercise and break free from the stress of daily life – and also make new friends in our cozy traditional hutong surroundings. Kick start your way to health one of our healthy habits courses,...
Tea Journeys

Tea Journeys

At The Hutong we don’t just drink tea, we take you on a journey. We know the lands where our teas come from, the people who grow them and the ways they cultivate them. We want to bring you as close as possible to the way of tea. Click on...
Creative Pursuits

Creative Pursuits

At The Hutong we offer a variety of creative pursuits that allow you to have fun, unwind from the pressure and stress of the daily routine, and make friends in our cozy traditional Hutong surroundings. Pick up a new hobby or follow your passion and expand your skills. Classes include...
Coming Up At The Hutong

Coming Up At The Hutong

Click on the link above to find out what's coming up at The Hutong - from Beijing's best cooking classes to its most unique charity events to theatrical hutong tours, interactive tea workshops, private events and more ...
Youth Education

Youth Education

At The Hutong we offer a range of interactive, educational, unique, and fun activities to students and school groups. Our interactive programs are designed to broaden participants’ understanding of Chinese culture and allow them to experience the authentic Beijing. We offer programs for schools and groups of all different ages. This...
How To Find Us

How To Find Us

Warning: we can be hard to find if it is your first time here - you will need to print our map! We are located at Beixinqiao, just south of Dongzhimen Nei - about halfway between Sanlitun & Houhai. The easiest way to find us is to Take Taxi or...
What's Coming Up
May 13 is Aussie Day at The Hutong!

May 13 is Aussie Day at The Hutong!

One and all are invited to The Hutong’s rooftop for a twilight evening with the cast from The Castle. Don’t be shy, drive the Tarana to our front door and just “feel the serenity” in Beijing atop our courtyard roof. If you’re good, we might even give you the “grand tour of the pool room!”...
Pies and Ales

Pies and Ales

We don’t know what was better about our Members Only Pies & Ales Event, seeing smiles when we offered free beers and pies OR the taste of the creations from Two Guys and a Pie, Dxcel and Vandergeeten. Sincere thanks to the great team at Price Cao Lawyers for making this event possible: you know...
Night Time/Low Light Photography Workshop

Night Time/Low Light Photography Workshop

This one day intensive workshop will cover both basic and advanced techniques involved with getting unique results while shooting at night and in low light conditions. We’ll meet at The Hutong first to cover concepts regarding night photography, as well as gear and how to use it. After that, we’ll walk around The Hutong to...
The Hutong on Beijing TV

The Hutong on Beijing TV

Click on the link to see a documentary on The Hutong, our community and our founder Mark Thirlwall, as featured on BTV. The Hutong would like to extend a huge thank you to the great BTV crew. Sit back and enjoy the show!
Revitalize Your Body, Calm Your Mind

Revitalize Your Body, Calm Your Mind

Find health and optimal fitness with an energizing one and a half hour class of Hatha and Daoist yoga, aimed at beginners to the practice. Based on healing traditions from India and China, this vibrant practice will leave you feeling relaxed and radiant. Participants will learn key basic yoga and qigong poses and leave class with sets of...
The Hutong Heyrobics! Health Rave

The Hutong Heyrobics! Health Rave

A CELEBRATION OF RUNNING, SWEATING, FUN, FOOD, AND HEALTHY LIVING! Sunday April 29th, The Hutong and Heyrobics are teaming up to offer you a Health Rave which will bring together the best of four worlds – exercise, food, music and drinks – into one unforgettable extravaganza. The Hutong Heyrobics! Health Rave will start at Ditan Park...
HDR Photography Workshop

HDR Photography Workshop

One of the hottest trends in image making right now is HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography.  This workshop will take you through all the steps in HDR photography: How to see in HDR, gear and techniques for shooting HDR, and processing and post processing techniques to get the most out of your HDR images. The...
CCTV 纪录片

CCTV 纪录片

Click on the link to see a documentary on The Hutong, as featured on CCTV - be warned, your Chinese better be passable! The Hutong would like to extend a huge thank you to CCTV Journalist Mengqian, for her dynamic and engaging documentary. Happy viewing!
The Super Powers of Entrepreneurship

The Super Powers of Entrepreneurship

Join us on April 12 as Dominic from Plastered T-shirts talks about his hard-earned “super powers”, and will show you how to transform what you perceive as your weaknesses and turn them into strengths. This is a super high-energy talk that will inspire you to take up arms, change your life, start your own business...
The Hutong and Gung Ho! Go Beyond The Mediterranean ...

The Hutong and Gung Ho! Go Beyond The Mediterranean …

Gung Ho! Pizza – Beijing’s premiere pizzeria – and The Hutong Kitchen – Beijing’s premiere cooking school – are teaming up to bring you a culinary competition that promises to take the meaning of pizza to a whole new level. On Friday, March 23, we invite you to roll up your sleeves and transform into...
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