After discovering their favorite Chinese foods on a previous trip, Aaron and Michael returned to China ready to learn how to make them. Their Yin Studio experience grew from four dim sum workshops into a full day of cooking, a local market visit, neighborhood exploring, and a custom jianbing guozi class created especially for them.

Three teenagers from a Hong Kong international school spent an afternoon learning to make xiaolongbao in Shanghai—with plenty of laughter, a little teenage sweetness, and one very enthusiastic 13-year-old who declared his dumplings better than Din Tai Fung.