Chinese Food Cooking Courses – Index
Chinese cuisine is well-known for being one of the biggest and most popular in the world. No matter where you go, you can find Chinese restaurants anywhere, even in small towns and villages in Europe.
If you want to learn how to cook Chinese food quickly, two good options can be to attend online and/or follow popular YouTube channels. Therefore, we have written this article where we list some of the most popular online Chinese food cooking courses and YouTube channels.
If you have any other recommendations, feel free to drop a comment below or send us an email!
Cook Like a Wok Star (Udemy)
Cook Like a Wok Star is a bestselling course on Udemy and with a rating of 4.7/5.0. The course is held by Eleanor Hoh, a woman with 17 years of experience teaching people how to cook. She was taught by her mother from a young age and has been inspirational to many other chefs and food enthusiasts since.
Eleanor’s teaching style is different in the sense that she doesn’t slavishly follow recipes and exact measurements, instead, she brings joy to cooking and believes it’s a creative process that one should assign time to.
Her course comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, it includes the following content:
- 1.5 hours on-demand video
- 5 downloadable resources
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion
The course is suitable for:
- Busy people that love fast health and fast meals
- Persone who’ve tried different woks and stoves but weren’t successful
- People who love Asian food and want to be able making it at home
- If you want to lose weight and get healthier
- College students that want to learn how to make quick and easy meals
Summary
- Price: USD 19.99 (original price USD 44.99)
- Website: Click here
5 Easy Chinese Take Out Recipes to Make at Home (Udemy)
5 Easy Chinese Take Out Recipes to Make at Home was created by Azlin Bloor and has a rating of 4.6/5.0, more than 600 students have enrolled in the course so far. It’s currently one of the most popular courses on Udemy, the same as Cook Like a Wok Star.
In this course, you will learn how to cook 5 popular Chinese takeout dishes at home, without the need for ordering food. The course is suitable for people who:
- Has no cooking experience, but also for experienced chefs
- You will need to have access to a kitchen with at least one cooking hob
- Students will need to have in this kitchen at least 1 wok or frying pan and 1 ladle or spatula
You’ll learn how to cook the following dishes:
- General Tso’s Chicken
- Singapore Noodles
- Sweet and Sour Chicken
- Chinese Egg Fried Rice
- Chinese Beef in Orange Sauce
I recommend you try out this course if you want to learn how to cook some amazing dishes without the need for ordering the dishes as take-out food.
Summary
- Price: USD 20.99 (original price USD 29.99, discount 30% off)
- Website: Click here
Appetite for China
Appetite for China is run by Diana Kuan, a New York-based photographer and food writer.
Her first cookbook The Chinese Takeout Cookbook was released in 2012 and was briefly listed on the WSJ bestseller list, which is impressive. She has also written a second book called Red Hot Kitchen (Avery, 2019) that explains how you can make various Asian chili sauces.
Appetite for China has been featured in several reputable magazines and newspapers, including CBS Early Show, WNYC radio, USA Today, ABC News, Wall Street Journal Asia, and more.
She also offers private cooking classes from 10 years back, for example, during birthdays and company team-building events and parties. Some of the companies she has helped include American Express, Airbnb, Columbia Business School, Twitter, Kickstarter, and more.
In addition to offering free recipes online, Appetite for China also has online cooking classes. Upcoming cooking classes include:
- May 1 – Dumplings from Scratch
- May 5 – Food Styling for Photography
For up to date information, I recommend you to check Diana’s website directly. You can also contact her for more information about her courses and the pricing.
Summary
- Price: Provided upon request
- Website: Click here
Chinese Healthy Cooking (YouTube channel)
Chinese Healthy Cooking is one of the most popular Chinese food channels on YouTube, it’s one of the top 40 Asian food channels on YouTube. The channel is run by a Chinese woman called Ling who grew up in Sichuan and has a long experience of cooking Chinese food.
Some of Chinese Healthy Cooking’s (called China Healthy Cook on YouTube) videos have received millions of views and are generally from 2 to 10 minutes long. Thus, the videos aren’t too long and you can learn how to cook a meal within a short time.
Below you can find some examples of dishes/recipes posted by Chinese Healthy Cooking on YouTube:
I recommend you to check out some of her videos and try cooking some of the dishes.
Garden Time homemade cuisine (YouTube channel)
Garden Time homemade cuisine is a leading YouTube channel that has more than 430,000 subscribers. They post around 2 videos a week and have done so since 2013. Over the years, Garden Time homemade cuisine has built up a channel with almost 1,000 videos.
The videos posted by the channel are generally 2 to 10 minutes.
Below you can find some examples of dishes/recipes posted by Garden Time homemade cuisine on YouTube:
Taste Show (YouTube channel)
Taste Show features master chef John Zheng who prepares phenomenal Chinese dishes that will make anyone drooling. Many of his videos receive millions of views just some months after they are published online.
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