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Cooking Class: Handmade Sushi

18 reviews

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Washington, D.C. - preparing ingredients for sushi rolling Shot

Washington, D.C. - 5 shrimp tempura and avocado sushi rolls Shot

Learn how to make sushi like a master in this hands-on cooking class. Chef Mai will teach you the time-honored techniques to crafting rolls from scratch.

You'll make a spicy tuna roll and a flavorful dragon roll using fresh ingredients. Learn the secrets to making the perfect fluffy sushi rice to be the base of your rolls. Practice knife skills to chop avocado and cucumber. Then, make a crispy shrimp tempura. With all your ingredients, you'll master the art of rolling sushi rolls like a chef and whip up sauces to serve with them.

Menu

Spicy Tuna Roll

With sushi rice, nori, ahi tuna, cucumber, avocado and sriracha mayonnaise

Crispy Shrimp Tempura

With sushi rice, nori, tempura shrimp and avocado

Cooking classes on Classpop! are designed to be fun, social events. Feel free to purchase wine or beer at the venue to enjoy during the class.

Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Minimum Guests 4
Maximum Guests 25
Event Duration 2 hours
Activity Level
Activity Level
Restrictions Must be 21 years of age or older to attend.
LabelsSushi Making, Beginner, Fun, Asian
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.

Reviews Guests Left For Other Experiences

Samina

12 Dec 2024

Chef Mai was warm, prepared and put together a wonderful sushi making class for our company's holiday party. We ended up with a delicious dinner, and had a lot of fun getting there! She was very generous with the portions she brought, and went beyond the discussed menu/ingredients. She works a day job, so responses by email can be a little slow, but was very responsive by text. We had a great time!

Gwen

17 Oct 2024

Chef Mai was awesome. This was a great team building event. Try it you will love it!!

Carolina

14 Oct 2024

The problem is not the chef. The problem is the place where the class was. It is already cold, it is outdoors, we could barely hear, it took forever to eat a bite.

Jonathan

16 Aug 2024

Chef Mai was amazing and did a great job adjusting her class to accommodate the mix of people who were there for business and others who were having a fun date night. The venue was outside at a brewery, I knew this beforehand and it was perfect! Being able to have a beer or two during an outdoor casual class was exactly what I was looking for for my date night.

Shakirah

15 Aug 2024

Chef Mai was an engaging and fun teacher. We learned a lot and would certainly do another class. We were not expecting the class to be outside and though the weather was beautiful, being outside was not an ideal venue for food prep.

Sarah

29 May 2024

Mei was kind, patient and really fun to work with. She assisted us all in ensuring we all had a positive and relaxing experience. I would definitely take class from her again!

Kelly

22 May 2024

Great value and great class!

Jeannie

25 Apr 2024

Chef Mai was very sweet and her instruction of making sushi rolls was easy to follow. We had a good time with her. On the other hand, the venue - beer co. - although nice and airy in late afternoon with music in the background, was likely inappropriate for a sushi making class. It made it hard to hear, and handling food and plasticware outside on a patio table with the wind blowing made it a bit difficult. I would definitely take any of her classes again but will look at the venue a bit more.

Yvonne

25 Apr 2024

We had a great time and we learned a lot. Chef Mai was very kind and I felt like I was a sushi master when I left.

Guthrie

24 Apr 2024

Chef mai was great!

Marc

24 Apr 2024

Chef Mei was amazing, we could not ask for a better experience. We would follow her around the city for more classes if we could. Not just 5 stars, but 100. We loved all of it!

Ashley

03 Apr 2024

The venue was the downfall of this experience. The brewery was equipped with everything except the first 3 drinks I requested from their menu, comfortable seating and actual walls. We were seated in a thinly veiled outdoor patio on a chilly and rainy evening. It was uncomfortable chopping food while wearing a coat and being seated on an uncomfortably unstable wooden bench with my back touching those of the people seated behind us. The venue took away from the experience. Chef Mai was okay I suppose. I left early to get food indoors.

Adam

01 Apr 2024

Pros: Chef Mai seemed really knowledgable. The ingredients were quality, so we ended up with a few decent sushi rolls. Cons: I wish I had known it would be outdoors. It was rather cold to be out in March. The whole experience was disorganized. Ingredients were unequally distributed between tables. Chef Mai was soft-spoken, so she decided to demonstrate each roll 3 times: once at each table. This left 2/3 tables doing a lot of waiting in the cold. We used up too much rice for the first roll and didn't have enough to make all the advertised rolls. More careful foresight could have prevented this The knives were dull. I can't make pretty, clean-cut sushi with dull knives that mash the roll down.

Lyle

01 Apr 2024

We had so much fun with Chef Mai! We enjoyed meeting the others at our table and we definitely learned enough to try it at home. Chef Mai has a winning way about her and is a good teacher!

Lauren

01 Apr 2024

Chef Mai was definitely trying hard, but the venue is not ideal for this class because it’s outside, right by the street, and many other patrons of the bar are talking as well around you, so it’s super difficult to hear. It seems like the class size was just too big; we couldn’t hear her instructions as a group so she went table by table, which took a long time. We also ran out of rice so only made two of the three advertised rolls.

merline

30 Mar 2024

The venue which was a tent, was cold had to leave my coat on during the whole class, even though they had heaters. Chef Mai was good, could have done a better job monitoring how much rice each participant used because we didn't get a chance to do three sushi rolls as indicated in the advertisement. There was three tables ( the set-up of the tables could have been a little more efficient place) it took Chef Mai quite a bit time to do her demonstration of the sushi rolls.

Outside Reviews for Chef Mai

Barry K

18 Jan 2024

Chef Mai is energetic, passionate and a works hard to provide a good experience!

Tom J

16 Jan 2024

We had a fantastic sushi class with Chef Mai!

Cooking Class: Handmade Sushi

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