Melbourne

classes: Cooking • Baking and Desserts

5.0 (17)

5.0 stars (12+)

Food is a love language. We eat, we cook, we share and we tell stories.

As a registered teacher based in Melbourne, Cristina prides herself in creating engaging and safe spaces for learning new skills. Her Taiwanese-inspired cooking classes bring together her desire to showcase her Taiwanese culture with others, and her love of good food, cooking and doing so in an environmentally conscious way.

Cristina studied Food Nutrition and Health in Vancouver, where she grew up, and enjoys sharing her nutrition knowledge in all of her classes. But as a kid to two chef parents, it comes down to cooking food that you want to eat over and over again! Sign up to one of her classes, and you are guaranteed one (or 10) recipes that you'll add into your cooking repertoire straight away.

Classes

Gluten Free Taiwanese Banquet Cooking Class

Your choice of time

Brunswick

1 to 10

$135

Taiwanese Banquet Cooking Class

5.0 (8)

6 Jul, 24 Aug

Brunswick

1 to 10

$135

Dumpling Making Class for Private Groups

5.0 (5)

Your choice of time

Comes to you

1 to 20

$75

Taiwanese Pastry Making Workshop

5.0 (3)

Your choice of time

Brunswick

4 to 10

$125

Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Class

Your choice of time

Brunswick / Mobile

8 to 10

$75 - $100

Spring Onion Pancake Class for Private Groups

Your choice of time

Comes to you

4 to 20

$75

Lunar New Year Taiwanese Banquet Class

Your choice of time

Glen Huntly / Mobile

8 to 12

$150

Make Vegan Char Siu at Home

5.0 (1)

Your choice of time

1 to 50

$38

Reviews

(17)

Andrea Smithies • Apr 2024

Amazing So many excellent tips on cooking skills and the food was incredible. Will definitely be back!

Teacher's response

Thanks for your review, Andrea. It was lovely meeting your family and I'm so glad you enjoyed the food and learned some new skills. Would love to have you all again in the future :)
Cristina

Therese Buttarelli • Jan 2024

Cristina’s knowledge for dumpling making was fantastic. Any questions asked Cristina was able to answer.
Cristina was able to cater to our dietary requirements with ease.
I would highly recommend Cristiana and I would happy do another class with her.

Teacher's response

Hi Therese,

Thank you for your review! It was lovely meeting all of you and I'm glad you had a good time :)
Enjoy the rest of your time in Melbourne and safe travels!

Cristina

Tim Norton • Dec 2023

Cristina facilitated an excellent in-house cooking class for a group of us in our office kitchen space. Cristina was a fantastic instructor and very engaging. The set up worked perfectly and the event was extra special being able to host it within our workplace after work. Everyone had a blast! Would highly recommend Cristina for work or private social events. We are thinking of getting her back as it went down so well :)

Teacher's response

Thanks for your review, Tim!
It was lovely hosting in your beautiful office kitchen, glad the team enjoyed it and looking forward to facilitating another class with you all again soon :)

Anna Xia • Nov 2023

112 ClassBento workshops attended • 107 reviews

Today we had Christina’s spring menu which shouldn’t be confused with the winter menu that features the crowd pleaser beef noodle soup. Even though we weren’t fortunate enough to taste her famous beef noodle soup we did try some of her other dishes that were tasty and flavourful particularly since we kneaded the dough with our own hands. Pork belly bao buns, mapo tofu, beancurd veggie salad and custard buns for dessert. Tantalising few hours of preparation certainly gives you a good appetite and we all left with happy full bellies.

Teacher's response

Hi Anna,

Thank you so much for your review!
I'm so glad to hear you still enjoyed the spring menu and walked away with full bellies!

I hope you can make it to the winter class and we can cook up the Taiwanese Beef noodles together then!

Cristina

Sharna Stone • Oct 2023

24 ClassBento workshops attended • 17 reviews

Cristina is an inspiring teacher and cook. Cristina assisted me to expand my plant based cooking and create connections with others through food and knowledge sharing.
This class is a one of a kind and it was a really beautiful way to make lunch and meet a new person who is clearly passionate about what she does. Thank you Cristina :)

Teacher's response

Hi Sharna,

Thank you for your review and your kind words!
I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it and expanded your plant-based cooking repertoire.
I also learned from you and Grant.

Hope to see you in class again soon,
Cristina

Luciano • Oct 2023

Our family and friends had a great time learning how to make dumplings from our fantastic tutor Cristina. She helped make it a memorable experience and we tried two different vegetarian options that were delicious as well learning different methods of folding dumplings. I highly recommend having a private class because we were able to enjoy ourselves and feel relaxed in the comfort of our own home. Cristina is a wonderful cook and helped with finishing the remaining dumplings we made while we feasted on waaaaay too many dumplings. Our four year old daughter joined us and she loved participating and became quickly fond of Cristina. Much thanks to Cristina.

Delphine Huffner • Oct 2023

Cristina was great, it was a wonderful experience to learn her story and to cook beautiful taiwanese dishes. I will surely come back again for another class next year!
I highly recommend.

Teacher's response

Hi Delphine,

Thank you so much for the review. I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the class :) I hope it brought back wonderful memories of your trip to Taiwan.

Look forward to seeing you in class again soon:)
Cristina

Anna Xia • Sep 2023

112 ClassBento workshops attended • 107 reviews

Christina is so warm and lovely and generous with her expertise. Born in Argentina and raised in Canada with Taiwanese roots, she shares food from her cultural heritage with us today. We made three different savoury and sweet moon cakes. One with mung bean pork filling, adzuki bean filling and daikon relish. Always ready to help and save your pastry when you are in strife. The trick is not to be too liberal with flour. She runs other Taiwanese cuisine classes too and I’m looking forward to another one of her delicious classes.

Teacher's response

Thanks for taking the time to write a review for this class, Anna. It would great to meet you and your mum. I hope your dad enjoyed the pastries for Father's Day!
See you at the Banquet class - thanks for booking in!
Cristina

Jenny Chan • Jul 2023

84 ClassBento workshops attended • 82 reviews

Cristina is an enthusiastic and engaging cooking instructor. Each cooking stage was explained well. I particularly adored the texture of the spring onion pancakes and the dough rolling technique used to create layers. Take home recipes were provided. We closed the class with a filling and appetising meal.

Teacher's response

Thanks Jenny!
It was lovely chatting to you in class, I'm glad you liked the Spring onion pancakes and the folding technique :)
Hope to see you in class again soon!
Cristina

Christopher Gatto • Jul 2023

Cristina was lots of fun and I feel like I learnt a lot in her class. You can tell that she is a teacher in her day job as she is very relaxed during the class and manages everyone well. The food was delicious and I’ve come away with lots of new things to try and more confidence with Taiwanese cuisine. The noodles were amazing but I’m really keen to make lots of mochi at home.

Antoinette Gatto • Jul 2023

I had a great time with the lovely Cristina. She was very welcoming and bubbly, creating a fun atmosphere in the cute and intimate Brunswick Kitchen. The fact that Cristina runs a class with only 10 people means that she had lots of time to speak to all of us and share lots of little cooking tricks.
The food was delicious and I was really pleased with how my spring onion pancake turned out! It was really nice to finish the class by having our beef noodle soup and mochi all together as a group.

Teacher's response

Thank you for your review, Antoinette!
I'm pleased to hear that you enjoyed the class and are happy with how your spring onion pancakes turned out. You did a really good job!

Hope to see you in class again soon!
Cristina

Mariana Robledo • Jun 2023

2 ClassBento workshops attended • 2 reviews

Cristina was amazing! She knows so much about Taiwanese food and culture, it was such an amazing experience where we could make food and take some home, we learned so many new tricks and new products to use in our everyday cooking. And the best part was that we got to eat a delicious dinner at the end. The venue was amazing, we had all the tools provided plus a super fancy apron, it was definitely good value, would recommend to anyone who likes cooking or just eating good food. Five stars

Teacher's response

Thanks for your review, Mariana!
That's so nice of you to say :) I'm glad you enjoyed the class and would recommend it to others!
(and yeshow pretty are the aprons haha!)

Hope to see you in class again soon,
Cristina

Ben Beattie-Hood • Jun 2023

Christina was super friendly, made sure everyone was included in a way that made them feel comfortable, and kept the class moving at a nice pace. She also made it very easy to ask lots of questions, and now I really feel empowered now to create similar dishes myself at home. I'd highly recommend this class as a birthday present, or as a fun date night.

Teacher's response

Thanks so much Ben, glad you feel empowered to create the dishes at home!
Hope the Muah Chee went down a treat with the kids :)

Hope you you in class again soon!
Cristina

Allyson Bader • May 2023

Cristina is a great instructor. The tips on folding the pastry and salting the cabbage were just some of the interesting details. And the dumplings …. Yum!

Allyson Bader • May 2023

Cristina is friendly, patient and a great teacher. She came to us to deliver the dumplings masterclass. Cristina provided all the food and equipment. We enjoyed the experience, making the filling, learning how to fold dumplings into different shapes, how to cook them and make an authentic dipping sauce. We highly recommend Cristina's class and would happily do another! Great value for money.

Suzanne Playfoot • Apr 2023

This was a comprehensive workshop on Asian pastry making. Cristina broke down the learning for us really well by demonstrating each step before we made our attempts. Cristina was then available for one on one advice as she circulated around the room.
The fact that Cristina's family was part of this workshop was a particular highlight and her mum gave me some useful tips. I would definitely recommend Cristina's classes to anyone keen on authentic Taiwanese cuisine.

Victoria Patten • Apr 2023

Fantastic class led by a truly passionate teacher. Cristina’s knowledge of Taiwanese food and technical background in food science is a match made in heaven. The venue was a great size, the class flowed and there was plenty of opportunity to sample and ask questions. Would highly recommend.

Cristina Chang

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local_activity classes: Cooking • Baking and Desserts

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Melbourne

classes: Cooking • Baking and Desserts