Category Archive: Cookery School

May 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 10 Firecracker Chicken

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Apr 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 9 Finger Lickin Good Spare Ribs – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Mar 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 8 The Chicken Stock to Warm Your Heart – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Feb 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 7 The Classic Chicken Chow Mein – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Jan 28

Lisa Tse features on BBC Radio for Chinese New Year

Becky Want BBC Radio

Lisa Tse, CEO of Sweet Mandarin was invited to speak to Becky Want on her show Retail Therapy, BBC Radio Manchester. Lisa talked about Chinese New Year and brought an array of delicious dim sum and Dragon cocktails to celebrate.  They also discussed the Sweet Mandarin Cookery School and the fact that Sweet Mandarin has …

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Jan 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 6 Beansprouts and Chinese Chives – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Jan 19

Wow we’re featured in the Observer !

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Dec 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 5 Fluffy White Rice – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Nov 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 4 Ginger Tea – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Oct 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No. 3 Egg Drop Soup – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Sep 28

Oprah’s Ten Weight Loss Recipes – No.2 Garlic Butter Steamed Fish – By The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

This series of blogs is addressed to Oprah and all those out there battling the bulge and excess weight. I am often asked by my clients to prepare for them a special detox meal over a period of a week to a month. The following recipes are just a sample of our offerings and are …

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Sep 10

Sweet Mandarin Cookery School with @RevHoly and @basketcasejo

We met Sion (@RevHoly) and Jo (@basketcasejo) on Twitter (@sweetmandarin). Sion and Jo are celebrating Sion’s birthday with a masterclass at Sweet Mandarin Cookery School. On the Intermediate course, they learnt Sweet and Sour Chicken bonus dish Salt and Pepper chicken balls (Sion’s favourite), beef green peppers and blackbean, Singapore Vermicelli, Steamed fish with ginger …

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Sep 02

The Sweet Mandarin Cookery School was A LOT of fun

This is what our previous guests have said about their Sweet Mandarin Cookery experience… ‘I have just returned from our one day cooking course with Lisa Tse and wanted to say thanks for such a fantastic day!! We were very much made to feel involved in everything and can’t wait to try out the recipes …

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Aug 28

An amazing cookery school

I had such a blast with Paulette – we both run food businesses. My business is a restaurant and cookery school. Paulette caters for dinner parties in Cheshire, south Manchester.  So you can see, put us in the kitchen and we had a lot to talk about. My philosophy is that you can never learn enough, especially …

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Mar 18

The Sweet Mandarin Food Walk

I love Food Walks. Its a tour all about the Chinese ingredients that we use at Sweet Mandarin and in Chinese cooking. We go through how to find the perfect wok, looking at the wierd and wonderful ingredients, purchasing them and bringing them back to Sweet Mandarin to cook. Its the perfect event for team …

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Jan 10

The Sweet Mandarin Beginner’s Chinese Cookery Course

Nov 21

Sweet Mandarin Cookery School Intermediate – Featuring Berwyn

Happy Birthday Berwyn. This video is dedicated to you and your lovely friends, Norma, Julia and Jacqui.

Oct 18

Book Sweet Mandarin Cookery School – Watch the video on YouTube.

This first video demonstrates the work I do day in day out with my corporate clients, VIP clients and Cookery School clients. Sometimes, its easier to just show you what I get up to. As they say a photo tells a thousand words. So I guess this first video will tell you a million and …

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Oct 02

Sweet Mandarin talks Cooking School with Martha Stewart

As you know, Sweet Mandarin has a cookery school that is growing by the week, literally. Classes are held every Saturday morning and places are filling up fast.  My twin sister, Lisa and I teach you the secrets of the wok, how to cook the perfect fried rice, wrap the most delightful dim sum and …

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Jul 15

#966 Sweet Nothing – Dim Sum

Sweet Mandarin Cookery School teaches a Dim Sum Masterclass. Its been so busy that we’re full till October 2010 and I’ve had to add an extra date for the people who really really really want to learn. So here’s a date for your diary: 8th August. Its first come, first served. For more information, go …

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May 15

Hey – Look at Our New Menu and Team Building Events at Sweet Mandarin

I’ve just ordered a snake blood cocktail to celebrate the fact that I’ve made not one but two new menus at Sweet Mandarin. Its taken a while because I’ve been a bit busy teaching the world to cook (face to face and on twitter), serving hot delicious Chinese food in the wokmobile and running the …

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Jan 15

Chinese Cookery School “I love Chinese food even more now!”

Mr Drake is on the right with his bowl of Chicken and Sweetcorn soup which he made himself at Sweet Mandarin Mr Drake mastering the woks at Sweet Mandarin Chinese Cookery School Mr Drake is an excellent chef and we had a lot of fun exchanging cooking tips!  He told me he loves Chinese and …

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Jan 15

Chinese Cookery School – Sweet Mandarin Is Proud of Her Students and Vice Versa

“As family meals seems to have become pushed aside by a barrage of ubiquitous fast food and drive-thru restaurants, Lisa Tse of Sweet Mandarin emerges with a welcoming food philosophy of cooking healthy delicious meals and gathering the family back to the table. Operating from her modern wok fired restaurant, Sweet Mandarin in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, …

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Jan 03

“It was great fun learning to cook in a proper wok in my favourite chinese restaurant in manchester”

John was one of my first students. I think this photo says it all. He was a brilliant student and if you ever want a part time job as my sous chef….. This is what John emailed me after the class. “It was great fun learning to cook in a proper wok in my favourite …

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Jan 03

Testimonials – Sweet Mandarin Cookery School

Francine loves to entertain her friends and family. Prior to joining Sweet Mandarin’s Cookery School, Francine found a Chinese menu somewhat bewildering – too much choice and uncertainty as to what all the flavours would taste like. Sweet Mandarin’s Cookery School gave Francine an introduction to a new  type of cuisine and an understanding that …

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