Nov.11th , Inmandarin China Chinese school inShanghai, provided a special Chinese cooking classes. We organized a group of wives from the Philips Company to learn and cook some specialty Chinese dishes. As well as some of our students, and they are from many countries, such as Holand, USA, HK,etc. and all of them like Chinese food and have strong intention to learn the secrets of Chinese food.
The dishes that we learnt that day are two quite famous Shanghai dish, One is Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish ( 松树鲈鱼 S ō ngsh ǔ l ú y ú ), another one is Fried Hairy Crab with Rice Cakes ( 毛蟹炒年糕 M á oxi è ch ǎ o ni á n'g ā o), both of them are also very difficult to cook, even for Chinese. We also learnt to cook another type of food which is Wonton ( 馄饨 H ú ntun).
Before starting the cooking, there was a famous chief performed the food sculpture, he made a carrot as a flower, which was quite amazing.
After that, the big chief started to teach them how to cook these two dishes, the chief cooked slowly and explained very detailed, the ladies stood around and watched also very carefully, expecially when preparing the Mandarin Fish, they were quite exciting about the chef's skill of cutting the fish.
Afterwards, the ladies were devided to four small groups to have their own try on these dishes. Some of them was having their first try of cooking Chinese dishes, they looked a little bit nervous but quite exciting, especially when they finally finished the cooking and the food turned out to be very delicious, all of us felt quite satisfied.