As I grow older, I’ve also grown an appreciation for experiences and workshops on my travels, especially those unique to the countries I am travelling to.

I previously attended a tea appreciation workshop in Seoul (booked from Airbnb, which was unfortunately stopped due to COVID).

For our trip to Jeju in winter, we tried our hands at making a tangerine meringue pie!

I was initially a bit worried that I would not succeed. While I was pretty ok with cooking, I had zero talents for baking and never succeeded. Yep, not even something as simple as cookies.

However, both the workshop description and reviews claimed that it was impossible to fail. Hence, I trusted them lol and went ahead to book this activity via Klook.

This is what the workshop promised:

Toto Atelier is the only ‘SELF cooking’ studio in Jeju where you can harvest the ingredients you need from Jeju’s own vegetable garden, using Jeju’s special crops as the main ingredients, and make your own according to the video recipe of a cooking expert. It is designed so that even beginners who are not familiar with cooking can make a finished dish that is as good as that of an expert.

Unfortunately as we had picked the worst weather to travel to Jeju with snow flurries and low temperatures, this harvesting was limited to cutting a few mint leaves from the back of the café where the workshop was hosted. What a shame!

Each student has a table already set up with tablet PC (with the cooking video), cooking utensils, and ingredients. We would follow the steps in the cooking video, which were rather straightforward. However, I found that the video was sometimes too fast and I had to keep pausing or rewinding to catch the step that I had missed.

Thankfully, although this was labelled a ‘self-cooking’ workshop, there were many cooking instructors on hand to guide where necessary. Hence, we didn’t have to worry about messing it up.

While the pie making was not complicated, I did like the step where we had to make the tart itself from scratch!

If you see the photo above, you’ll notice a bag of grains and millets. We would use a machine to mill these into wholegrain flour and bake into a tart.

The whole workshop took slightly under one hour to complete, including baking time, which was impressive! The studio/café had this corner complete with props and great lighting for students to take photos of their tarts, and here is mine:

Doesn’t this look delicious?!

I was shocked that I was actually capable of making something like this, considering my terrible, nonexistent track record. I firmly believe that if even I could produce this, anybody else can also make a tangerine meringue tart that looks & tastes amazing.

The cherry on top was having a photographer take good-quality photos of us during the pie making process. It was a nice touch, considering that we were too occupied with making the pie to take photos of us in action.

The staff were very kind and allowed us to take away the pie in a box free of charge.Wwe ended up having our pies as breakfast over the next few days in Jeju.

The pies were sweet without being cloying – maybe we enjoyed them even more because we baked them?

All in all, I really enjoyed this baking workshop and would highly recommend checking this out when you’re in Jeju! It’s located not too far from most of the tourist attractions and takes only 1 hour – perfect for any Jeju itinerary.

If you’re keen, do book this workshop here from Klook!

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