Nothing beats a home-cooked meal shared with family! And this is what inspires our Family Style Cookery Classes, a fun, laid-back homestyle cooking experience. Here, you will learn to prepare different dishes and then enjoy them with people who, like you, fuel our mission of supporting refugee and migrant chefs on their journey to integration. It’s a cookery class with a conscience, like they say!

Your class will be led by our wonderful Chef Celia from Hong Kong at The Mazi Project, Bristol.

At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Celia as the head of the family! She will take care of dividing the class into groups, and each group will be responsible for creating one of the dishes. Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to move around during the class to learn about the other dishes being prepared. Throughout the evening, Chef Celia will share stories about their food and culture, and explain how to prepare each of the dishes so you come away with some new cooking tricks and inspiration from Hong Kong. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.

Menu, subject to change:

• 涼拌青瓜木耳 (Cucumber & Wood Ear Mushroom Salad) | Vegan; Sesame, Soya, Gluten (Wheat)
• 煎豬肉韭菜餃 (Crispy Pork and Chives Dumplings) | Meat (Pork); Gluten (Wheat), Sesame, Soya
• 栗米椰菜餃 (Sweetcorn and Cabbage Dumplings)| Vegan; Gluten (Wheat), Sesame,
• 醋溜土豆絲 (Stir Fry Shredded Potato in Vinegar) | Vegan; Sesame
• 酸辣湯 (Hot and Sour Soup) | Vegetarian; Eggs, Gluten (Wheat), Sesame, Soya, Celery

This menu contains meat (pork) but is vegetarian friendly (4/5 dishes are meat free). Allergens include: sesame, soya, gluten, eggs, celery.

Kindly note that we will not be substituting any ingredients to accommodate dietary needs, so please only book into classes that suit your dietary requirements. Please see our Food and Allergens Policy for more information.

A message from our Chef Celia:

“Hello, my name is Celia and I am from Hong Kong. In a previous life I worked in a stressful corporate career, but I always longed to live my passion: cooking. So, I finally found the courage to quit and now I have been teaching cookery classes for over seven years. I’m still motivated to explore and push my boundaries in the kitchen.

I would say my style is East meets West. I enjoy mixing and matching ingredients to create more complex and unique flavours. I try to use local, seasonal ingredients so that my cooking is fresh and economical and people learn what their local ingredients are.

I am also a food stylist: I want my food to not only taste good but look beautiful too.

I love the common language of food: how it brings people and cultures together, and how we can share recipes and learn new tastes and skills. But most of all, I love how eating together makes us happy.

I look forward to cooking and eating with you!”

Finding the venue: The Mazi Project is located in a building previously called ‘Deltec International’ in St Catherine’s Trading Estate, enter via Whitehouse Lane. What3words location is ////keys.cowboy.news. There are currently roadworks in this area which can make it more difficult to find so please call the facilitator for your class if you need assistance.