Cooking With Joy Rayner : Shanghai Soup Dumplings (Xiaolongbao) From Scratch
Let's find out the secret to getting the soup into a Chinese soup dumpling. You will learn how to make Soup Dumplings from scratch, make the dough, flavorful soup, pork filling, fold and cook the dumplings together with new friends.
Joy Rayner
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(192)
What's included
1 live meeting
1 in-class hoursClass Experience
Chinese Soup Dumplings are the most perfect food ever invented, and it's the most famous dish to come out of China. They call this xiaolongbao or soupy buns as it's a steamed dumpling consisting of a paper thin wrapper with pork filling, hot and flavorful soup inside. Teacher Joy will take you to China and learn a little bit of the soup dumpling history. She will walk you through step by step on how to make fresh delicious soup dumplings from her kitchen and answer all of your questions before class, in class and after class. In this class, you will learn how to make the fresh dumpling dough, flavorful soup, the perfect filling of your choice, fold the filling in the fresh dumpling dough wrappers, steam them and get to know new friends from all over the US. We sometimes have students from UK, Japan, Canada and France as well. You will be able to discuss about the dish we make and share your learning experience with your new friends in class. Making your own soup dumpling is so much tastier, healthier and a lot of fun. This class is designed to make it easier for young learners to remember and understand the process of making this delicate dish. Vegetarian learners are welcome as teacher Joy can provide the list of ingredients separately. This is Teacher Joy's a family favorite, and well worth a little patience in the kitchen. Parents are welcome to stay and help, especially for younger learners to keep them safe and having fun. If you are a soup dumpling fan, it’s time to impress yourself or someone you love with your homemade soup dumplings.
Learning Goals
Students will be able to experiment and create Chinese soup dumplings from scratch which will help build their self-confidence, understand Chinese culture and lay the foundation for healthy eating habits at home.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Parental guidance is recommended for younger students as we will be in the kitchen and there are hot appliances and other hazardous things in the kitchen. We want our students to be safe and having fun :).
Supply List
A steamer or a frying pan with a heat proof plate, parchment paper, all purpose flour and bread flour (optional), ground pork or shrimps, ginger, garlic, pepper powder, oyster sauce, green onion, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, beef or fish gelatin powder (unflavored gelatin powder for vegetarians).
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined June, 2020
4.9
192reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Hi everyone, I'm Joy. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn more about me. I love to run and hike and take advantage of the beautiful natural surroundings of California. I sell and buy real estates and also spend time on my other passion : cooking, baking and teaching. I am a mom, chef and photographer who also loves science and technology. Besides cooking and baking, I also learn how to code as a hobby. The coding languages I know is JavaScript, Python and SQL.
I believe we can teach and learn so many subjects and concepts through cooking and baking. I love learning new things and improvising all my skills and knowledge in my kitchen. I sometimes teach my students why we need to transform sodium bicarbonate to sodium carbonate to make a stronger alkaline salt when making ramen noodles, why we need to age eggs before making macarons, basic match computations, fractions through Chinese dumpling dough making process, measurement, chemical changes, physical changes and observation through this course. I believe cooking and baking around the world is also a great way to learn about different cultures and understand others more :).
A little bit about me- I've been teaching cooking for a few years now. I have experienced with a range of different ages and one of the things that I really love, is being able to connect with your child and help them learn efficiently and passionately.
I have trained as a chef all my life from my family's restaurant in Thailand, French and Japanese restaurants in New Jersey and now in my home kitchen for my little picky eaters in California, so I constantly learn how to be creative in my kitchen. I have also had the opportunity to travel to Paris and baked with some of great pastry chefs there early in 2020. My teaching style is casual, fun and diverse. I like to change my teaching style and mix things up, to suit my students’ needs and interest because I understand that everyone is different so we learn and do things differently. The most important thing is that my students are happy and that they are able to retain the information and have some fun too.
I speak Thai and English, I studied at Thammasat university in Bangkok, Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey and San Jose city college in California.
I believe in being more than just a teacher because I am also a mom, auntie, sister and friend who wants to be a mentor to your child. I am extremely passionate about the subject I teach. I can’t wait to meet your child and help them grow to become the best that they can be!
Sincerely,
Joy
Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$20
per classMeets once
60 min
Completed by 141 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
6-12 learners per class
