Team Building Activity: Delicious Dumpling-Making Madness

44 reviews

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Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and bond with your colleagues in a unique team building activity with Chef Janet! Discover the art of creating authentic Chinese dumplings from scratch with expert guidance from a skilled chef.

Armed with their new culinary know-how, your team will split into groups to compete for the title of Most Delicious Dumplings. Using dough-making and dumpling-folding techniques, groups will select from a variety of ingredients to craft their own unique fillings. Then, they'll cook their dumplings to perfection and the most innovative, eye-catching and flavorful dumplings will earn the win. In this fun and friendly competition, your team will get creative, bond and make lasting memories together. After the competition, everyone can mingle and indulge in an abundance of chef-approved dumplings!

Cooking classes on Classpop! are designed to be social events that do not require any previous experience. Guests are welcome to purchase alcoholic beverages from the venue to enjoy during the class.

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Dumpling Dough

With flour, water and cooking oil

Filling Ingredients

With chicken, pork, tofu, mushrooms, green onion, water chestnuts, vermicelli, cilantro and more

Minimum Guests 10
Maximum Guests 50
Event Duration 2 hours
This is a BYOB venue and alcoholic beverages are not available for sale. You are welcome to bring beer and wine to enjoy during class.
Taproom open all to all ages. Guests under the age of 18, must be accompanied by someone 21+.

Classpop! Guest Reviews for other experiences with Chef Janet

Deainera

27 Nov 2023

Great class and very instructive and detailed.

Brian

20 Nov 2023

Sushi was great and chef Janet was super helpful and knowledgable! Highly recommend

Nick

07 Nov 2023

Janet was very helpful. She answered question and gave tips on diff ways to do things.

Constance

05 Oct 2023

Thanks Janet!

Kim

21 Sep 2023

Chef Janet was very informative. She kept the class moving, which became a bit fast for me, as I was not paired up with a partner (odd number students). She was generous with ingredients and the encouragement to make the rolls to our own liking. I did not realize before the class that she had lived for a while in Hong Kong -- personal and geographical expertise!!

Mike

21 Sep 2023

Chef Janet was awesome. Made for a enjoyable date night with my girlfriend.

Amanda

18 Sep 2023

Chef Janet was great! Really made learning how to make sushi simple and easy. Highly recommend taking her class.

Lisette

18 Sep 2023

Great class!

Martin

15 Sep 2023

We had a great time and chef Janet explain everything very well.

Laurene

10 Aug 2023

It was a great experience! We chopped , filled , and pinched the potstickers. The best was enjoying the fruits of our labor!

Jacklyn

22 Jul 2023

Janet was kind, interesting, and obviously had knowledge about cooking and an intuitive way of teaching it. Our group bonded quickly in a casual and a lot of laughs were had! Highly recommend a class w Chef Janet.

Lauren

17 Jul 2023

We LOVE chef Janet! We had the best time at the class learning how to make the perfect homemade pasta. Would 100% recommend!!!

Judy

04 Jul 2023

Great class! Chef Janet was so informative and gave great demos so that our creations looked professional. Excellent flavor combos too! Delicious!

Elizabeth

03 Jul 2023

She was well prepared with all the supplies and was very informative. A very enjoyable time!

Kaitlyn

03 Jul 2023

Chef Janet was very attentive and helpful throughout the class. We had such a great time and will gladly go again!

Bryon

12 Jun 2023

Had a great time at the class!

Nikah

10 Jun 2023

It was very well worth it would definitely do it again

Kelley

08 Jun 2023

Such a fun night with Chef Janet. We learned a lot and the pot stickers we made were delicious!

Nikah

07 Jun 2023

Very fun experience I loved it! Had a great time!

Allison

06 Jun 2023

Chef Janet was great, and it was a really fun time! I wish it had been a little more hands on for all aspects of the cooking, but without a kitchen it was still very interactive and fun!

Judy

05 Jun 2023

What a fun and super delicious class! Chef Janet explained and demonstrated then we jumped in and made delicious potstickers. Thank you Janet!

Kristina

05 Jun 2023

Great time! Cooking class without a kitchen was a great, great success!

Neal

29 May 2023

Janet is amazing! She took the time to teach us how to make the dough and showed us how she would prep everything. It was a fun experience for sure and she helped us really see how to make pasta. She gave plenty of recommendations and more!

Jacob

26 May 2023

Janet was fabulous! Great class!

Sabrina

09 May 2023

We all had a wonderful time.

Shirali

09 May 2023

awesome class!

Veronica

01 May 2023

Very fun and relaxed class!

Valery

29 Apr 2023

Great Class, lots of great information and tools given. Will be back for more :)

Anna

29 Apr 2023

Great class and I learned how to make sushi!

Lori

28 Apr 2023

class was wonderful!

Dominique

11 Apr 2023

Chef Janet was amazing! She was detailed in her explanations and allowed us to have fun cooking. I will definitely be back to check out her other class and bringing friends!

Tiffany

28 Mar 2023

Great class I learned a lot

28 Mar 2023

Rylee

28 Mar 2023

Janet was so helpful, but also hands off until we needed her. Would recommend!

Lily

21 Mar 2023

Chef Janet ran a great class. I felt bad that she didn't have the best set up being in a brewery and not a kitchen, but she made it work! My boyfriend and I had a great time! Thanks Chef Janet :)

Sarah

14 Mar 2023

Chef Janet was great. Such a fun activity!

Sharon & Charles

01 Mar 2023

It was a fun event. Well prepared for the class. Very attentive and helpful. It was very satisfying to eat our fresh pasta with a delicious sauce. We also liked the location at the brewery.

Gabrielle

18 Feb 2023

Class was fun, Janet was great and answered all questions. Location wasn’t very ideal as we were placed in the bar area at small high top tables with another couple and it was hard to make sushi with so little space. Would do another class again!

Stephen

15 Feb 2023

Whilst I am sure Chef Janet is a wonderful person, this class fell short in too many ways to warrant anything more than one star. Indeed, a refund would be more appropriate. The equipment was lacking (not enough bowls, blunt knives) and the quality of the ingredients was poor (rotten mangos and avocados which I understand happens with fresh ingredients, but she was reluctant to swap them out). Worst of all was that she washed the sushi rice in the bar toilets! I couldn’t believe this and we couldn’t eat anymore of the sushi rice or food. Hygiene should be a basic standard, and in no world would it ever be appropriate to wash food for human consumption in a public restroom. The toilets were not the cleanest, and there were cockroach traps in there too so this was far beyond appropriate. I was appalled and this is just unforgivable. I have no idea why she did that when the bar had water for humans and I am sure would have provided it. We didn’t learn anything from the class as we couldn’t see her well from the table available to us, further she would begin one thing and then not follow up with instruction. She did mention that she wasn’t scheduled to teach the class but honestly, she shouldn’t have taught a class she wasn’t comfortable with. Please can someone get in touch with me on this review?

Chrissy

13 Feb 2023

Janet was knowledgeable, encouraging, and easy to follow!

Outside Reviews for Chef Janet

Kathy K

21 Feb 2023

I recently took Janet Cobb's wonderful cooking class. We made Sushi and California rolls. Janet is such a good teacher and made the experience so enjoyable! She had all the equipment ready at our places and walked us through the process step by step. We learned how to prep the fillings and roll each piece. I felt so accomplished when I finished. And it tasted great!

Regina

30 Jan 2023

Pot stickers are way too delicious and complicated for me to ever make, right? Wrong. Janet stepped us patiently through the process of blending ground meats, chopping vegetables and mixing in seasoning. Just doing that much took the mystery out of pot stickers, but Janet even taught us how to make the dough covering part. She had also provided store-bought frozen shells, but I soon found that the dough I had was heartier. When we tasted our finished creations, I was shocked by how well we had done. Janet provided an excellent recipe and made learning it fun. She helped us feel successful. I had a great time.

Audra K

30 Jan 2023

This was my first event! I loved it! I went solo, met some nice participants. Janet is very knowledgeable and friendly. The pot stickers turned out great! I will definitely be back for more classes! Thanks for a great sunday morning activity!

Lori

30 Jan 2023

Cooking with Janet was fun and informative. She was really organized, so that I could relax and enjoy the experience. The food was delicious and I'm excited to be able to make this again on my own.