Dumpling making workshop with award-winning Guangdong chefs

What you'll do

For a few weeks this September, Chef Feng and Chef Chen from Guangdong, the home province of Cantonese cuisine, are teaching in Sydney. Then they fly home.

Presented by Evolution Hospitality Institute in partnership with Miele, and hosted in the Miele Experience Centre, where you'll cook on some of the best appliances in the world.

In this four hour hands-on workshop, they'll stand beside you while you make the dumplings you've ordered at yum cha a hundred times: har gow, the delicate prawn dumpling with a translucent crystal skin, and siu mai, the juicy open-topped pork and prawn parcel. This isn't a watch-and-nod demonstration.

You'll mix the dough, roll it paper-thin, pleat every dumpling with your own hands and steam them the way a Guangdong kitchen does, while the chefs correct your technique one guest at a time. Then everyone sits down together and eats what they made.

You'll learn the secrets behind why restaurant dumplings taste different from the home version: the hot-water scald that turns the skin glass-clear, the filling ratio that keeps prawn springy instead of tough, and how to read doneness from the wrapper, not the clock. At double the length of a typical dumpling class, you leave with real technique, not just a fun afternoon.

Stop ordering dumplings. Start making them.

What you'll get

• Four hours of hands-on, small-group instruction from two award-winning Guangdong chefs

• Make and eat both har gow and siu mai, folded by your own hands

• A recipe pack to take home so you can make them again

• A shared table to enjoy everything you've made

• Cook on some of the best appliances in the world at the Miele Experience Centre

• Light beverages will be provided

• A small complimentary gift from Miele as a token of our appreciation

Knowledge required

• This workshop is perfect for:Anyone who's eaten har gow and siu mai a hundred times and wants to finally make it

• Home cooks ready to move past the basics to restaurant technique

• Food lovers after a hands-on experience, not a demonstration

• Friends, couples, or anyone after a gift they'll actually remember