Crying in H Mart: Korean Home Cooking for the Literary Foodie

Recent reviews of Korean Cooking Class: Crying in H Mart

• 5/5 from Joylissa Finegan, attended Jul 2026: We really enjoyed the class. Leslie was very kind and a good teacher. We would have liked if there could have been some info about the culture/ specific Korean ingredients (there was a mention that Korean pears would traditionally be used instead of applesauce). That aside, it was great class and we look forward to taking another class here again!
• 4/5 from Susan Lippe, attended Jul 2026: Where does this review go? Yelp? Google? Bottom Line - it was really fun, and we learned a lot! Also, your facility seems very clean and well-equipped. It was really great to get to use all of your billions of cooking tools and dishes. The food was delicious! The assistant Stephanie is clearly an invaluable employee. She's amazing and hard working and so helpful. The teacher Leslie was very friendly and clearly loves cooking and teaching and Korean food. I have some more things to say, but I will write a bigger letter for y'all. I just want to mention here quickly - if you take the recipes from a blogger/cookbook author and don't give her credit, that's taking money and traffic from her. Leslie mentioned that she used the recipes from https://www.maangchi.com/ - who is one of my favorite cookbook authors. I loved that you put the book *Crying in H-Mart* on display. You also are obligated to put out Maangchi's books and to put her name on the recipe booklet. Also, I had fun, but I think it was stressful from about noon onward. I think there were too many humans and too many dishes. There were not enough places to fry chicken, for example. We ate lunch in about 10 minutes because there was barely enough time to finish everything. Maybe lose 3 or 4 students and lose one or two dishes so that we can take our time to really learn everything. I sped through cooking japchae because there was not enough time or space to cook each item. It's okay because I know the Korean veggie cooking techniques already, and I knew the veggies and noodles would taste great no matter what. I think this is a fun class. With just a few tweaks, it could be terrific. Thanks.
• 5/5 from Bella Dilworth, attended Aug 2025: I appreciated learning new techniques- that I could use in my everyday cooking and how to make an actual meal that I can serve to guests. The teacher made us feel that we could authentically make this food. She was personable and added color to her instruction and offered additions, alternatives, substitutions to the written recipe. The only thing I did not enjoy (and I have taken some classes at the school in the past and I did not have this experience) is that the classmates came with friends and/or family- if I were not a mature person (lol) I would have felt isolated and generally pissed off. Nevertheless, I got what I came for- even a good-bye hug from the father of the couple who were my cooking partners.