Teahouse Pairings with Jeff Mao

Learn about a specific variety of tea while cooking a delicious Chinese dish to pair with it

2026 Dates

• Tuesday, May 5 - White Tea & Har Gow (Crystal Skin Shrimp Dumplings)

• Tuesday, June 2 - Green Tea & Cong You Bing (Scallion Pancakes)

• Tuesday, July 14 - Oolong Tea & Guo Tie (Pork and Shiitake Mushroom Potstickers)

• Tuesday, August 11 - Black Tea & Char Siu Bao (Steamed BBQ Pork Buns)

• Tuesday, September 15 - Smoked Tea & Sheng Jian Bao (Pan Fried Pork Buns)

• Tuesday, October 6 - Pu-erh Tea & Red Bean Mooncake

About

Looking for a Tuesday night worth leaving the house for? Join instructor Jeff Mao for this six-part, hands-on cooking series where you'll cook up delicious dishes to enjoy for dinner, each one thoughtfully paired with a different variety of tea. Good food, great tea, and even better company.

Each session in this series will focus on a different style of Chinese tea, sourced from a Maine-based tea company, and explores what makes that tea unique, from flavor to processing. After tasting and learning about the featured tea, you’ll roll up your sleeves to cook a dish designed to pair with it (listed above with each date), along with a complementary side dish to complete the meal.

Take all six classes and enjoy the series start to finish, or just take one or two - build your own tea adventure. For those who want the full experience, sign up for all 6 classes and save 20%. Click here to sign up for the discounted class package.

We’ll provide all ingredients, materials, equipment, recipe sheets, and product lists to take home. Classes are held in our Learning Center and taught by Jeff Mao of Knead & Nosh. All you need to bring is your apron!

About Jeff Mao

Jeff Mao runs Knead and Nosh as a passion project, teaching engaging online cooking and baking classes with a special focus on foods that incorporate doughs in one form or another: breads, pasta, dumplings, and more.

Jeff is an avid home cook and baker who has been consuming food media for decades going back to PBS shows like Yan Can Cook and the Great Chefs to the early days of the Food Network and now the modern Internet media. He recently published his first cookbook, Essential Chinese Hot Pot Cookbook.

This is a ticketed class and advance registration is required: sign up today at www.mainetastingcenter.com/classes