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Private Beijing Hutong Home Visit: Calligraphy, Dumplings & Lunch
Beijing, Northern China, China
$229
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
The Hutong Family Experience in Beijing offers an authentic glimpse into local life within a traditional courtyard home. This immersive 3-hour adventure combines Chinese calligraphy and dumpling making, ensuring personal interaction with a local family.
- 🏠 Meet your host family in their historic hutong home, learning about traditional courtyard living.
- ✍️ Participate in a hands-on calligraphy workshop, where you’ll learn to hold the brush, practice strokes, and write your name in Chinese.
- 🍽️ Prepare traditional Chinese dumplings from scratch, including mixing fillings, rolling wrappers, and folding dumplings properly.
- 🥢 Enjoy a freshly cooked homemade lunch with tea, sharing a meal just like a local family gathering.
- ☕ Relax with tea while discussing hutong life, neighborhood traditions, and contemporary Beijing culture.
- 🎨 Take home your own handmade calligraphy artwork as a personal keepsake from the experience.
- 🛠️ All necessary dumpling-making ingredients, kitchen tools, and calligraphy materials are provided.
- 👩🏫 Benefit from a bilingual host who offers English translation during the calligraphy session.
- ♿ The experience is wheelchair accessible, ensuring comfort for all guests, including those with prams or strollers.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
5hr: Hutong Family Experience
Cultural Activities: Includes a guided hutong walk, siheyuan introduction, calligraphy class and hands-on dumpling making.
Private English-Guided Tour: A private experience for your group, led by an English-speaking guide who interprets the home activities.
Duration: 5 hours
Home-Cooked Dumpling Lunch: Includes handmade dumplings, seasonal family dishes, traditional Chinese tea, sweet snacks and fresh seasonal fruit.
Shichahai to Hutong Home: Shichahai Station, Drum and Bell Tower area, Yandai Xie Street, Yinding Bridge, Houhai and the family home.
Materials and Artwork: Includes calligraphy materials, dumpling ingredients and the calligraphy artwork you create and take home.
Cultural Activities: Includes a guided hutong walk, siheyuan introduction, calligraphy class and hands-on dumpling making.
Private English-Guided Tour: A private experience for your group, led by an English-speaking guide who interprets the home activities.
Duration: 5 hours
Home-Cooked Dumpling Lunch: Includes handmade dumplings, seasonal family dishes, traditional Chinese tea, sweet snacks and fresh seasonal fruit.
Shichahai to Hutong Home: Shichahai Station, Drum and Bell Tower area, Yandai Xie Street, Yinding Bridge, Houhai and the family home.
Materials and Artwork: Includes calligraphy materials, dumpling ingredients and the calligraphy artwork you create and take home.
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Traditional Chinese tea
- Private English-speaking guide
- Chinese calligraphy instruction
- Guided Shichahai and hutong walking tour
- Take-home calligraphy artwork
- Handmade dumpling lunch
- Fresh seasonal fruit
- All calligraphy materials
- Dumpling-making instruction and ingredients
- Seasonal family-style dishes
- Gratuities
- Additional food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meeting point
Meet your guide directly outside Exit A2 of Shichahai Station (Line 8). The guide will hold a sign with your name. Please arrive 10 minutes early and message us on WhatsApp or WeChat when you arrive. If you cannot find the guide, contact us by message or phone.
Return details
Meet your guide directly outside Exit A2 of Shichahai Station (Line 8). The guide will hold a sign with your name. Please arrive 10 minutes early and message us on WhatsApp or WeChat when you arrive. If you cannot find the guide, contact us by message or phone.
Step into Beijing’s historic hutongs and experience the neighborhood through its streets, traditions and family life.
1️⃣ Shichahai & Hutong Walk
Meet your private guide outside Exit A2 of Shichahai Station. Walk through the Drum and Bell Tower area, Yandai Xie Street, Yinding Bridge, Houhai and residential hutongs while learning about Old Beijing.
2️⃣ Siheyuan Home Introduction
Enter a local family home and learn how a traditional siheyuan courtyard is arranged, how families shared its rooms and how hutong homes have adapted to modern life.
3️⃣ Chinese Calligraphy
Learn to hold the brush, practise basic strokes and write meaningful Chinese characters with a local instructor. Take your finished artwork home.
4️⃣ Dumpling Making
Prepare northern Chinese dumplings by making the filling, rolling wrappers and practising different folds before cooking them together.
5️⃣ Home-Cooked Lunch, Tea & Stories
Share your dumplings, seasonal family dishes, tea and fruit with the host family. Your private guide interprets the conversation and explains local traditions and everyday life in Beijing.
As a private experience, the walking pace and activities can be adjusted to your group.
1️⃣ Shichahai & Hutong Walk
Meet your private guide outside Exit A2 of Shichahai Station. Walk through the Drum and Bell Tower area, Yandai Xie Street, Yinding Bridge, Houhai and residential hutongs while learning about Old Beijing.
2️⃣ Siheyuan Home Introduction
Enter a local family home and learn how a traditional siheyuan courtyard is arranged, how families shared its rooms and how hutong homes have adapted to modern life.
3️⃣ Chinese Calligraphy
Learn to hold the brush, practise basic strokes and write meaningful Chinese characters with a local instructor. Take your finished artwork home.
4️⃣ Dumpling Making
Prepare northern Chinese dumplings by making the filling, rolling wrappers and practising different folds before cooking them together.
5️⃣ Home-Cooked Lunch, Tea & Stories
Share your dumplings, seasonal family dishes, tea and fruit with the host family. Your private guide interprets the conversation and explains local traditions and everyday life in Beijing.
As a private experience, the walking pace and activities can be adjusted to your group.
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Private Beijing Hutong Home Visit: Calligraphy, Dumplings & Lunch
Beijing, Northern China, China
$229
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!