The Hutong Corporate
Tours & Retreats

Tours & Retreats

We are happy to provide full day or weekend retreats for 10 to 50 people in our quiet, countryside venue, nestled beneath the Great Wall.   Any of our custom events hosted at The Hutong can also be brought to life at our retreat venue.  Our professional staff and facilitators will...
Personalized Touches

Personalized Touches

The Hutong works with local vendors and small business owners to offer personalized corporate gifts.  All products can be custom-made for your company. We currently offer: -Tea Journeys teas and teaware -Home-made Jams -Taiwanese Bamboo Chopsticks -Cooking Aprons -Sassy Scrubs body products  
Charity & CSR

Charity & CSR

The Hutong partners with charities and community organizations to raise money and awareness for their causes.  Charity and corporate events manager, Erin Henshaw, maintains personal relationships with a wide variety of charity organizations in efforts to link charitable requests with available resources.  Erin can help your company organize meaningful volunteer...
Private Parties

Private Parties

This isn’t your typical office party!  The Hutong specializes in providing professional yet highly interactive and fun corporate events. We have hosted roof-top bbqs with seasonal gourmet menus, charity events to support corporate social responsibility, interactive hot cocktail parties to warm up the Beijing winter…and more!  Let us create a...
Team Building

Team Building

From our custom Hook n Cook friendly cooking competition to countryside retreats, The Hutong organizes a variety of team-building activities that integrate business skills with fun, interactive experiences.  We have hosted welcoming and going away parties, communications workshops, brainstorming sessions and more!  All of our events are custom-made to offer...
About Us

About Us

The Hutong is a courtyard home and an events venue located in the heart of Beijing.  Our aim is to provide exceptional corporate events with a cultural twist.  Our corporate team is comprised of a professional and creative staff hailing from Australia, China, The US and England.  Our backgrounds range...
Latest entries
Total may be masters of customer service…but what about tea service?

Total may be masters of customer service…but what about tea service?

For this event, tea expert Mark Thirwall first took the Total team on a metaphorical tea journey through some of China’s most enchanting tea-growing areas.  From the tea farms in Xishuangbanna to Wuyi Shan, Mark introduced little-known secrets to how China has maintained its reputation for growing the best teas in the world.  After being...
Wokai Launches Version 3.0 in the Tea Room

Wokai Launches Version 3.0 in the Tea Room

The Hutong was proud to host Wokai in our Tea Room last week for the launch of Wokai 3.0.  We’re not exactly sure how this incredible micro-finance social enterprise could get any more awesome…but their sweatshirts were certainly a start.  Casey and her team rented our Tea Room out for the day and had a great time playing around...
Schlumberger knows how to do Business Lunch!

Schlumberger knows how to do Business Lunch!

Prompt and ready for action, the Schlumberger team arrived at The Hutong ready  to cook for their lunch-time Hook n Cook event.  This team skillfully maneuvered their way through a culinary quiz, auction for ingredients, recipe navigation, plating and dish presentations.  Schlumberger took the art of Hook n Cook plating to a whole new level,...
Williams Lea Delights in Contemporary Chinese Cuisine

Williams Lea Delights in Contemporary Chinese Cuisine

The Hutong was pleased to welcome translators from Williams Lea for their first event, a Contemporary Chinese Private Chef’s Table with Chef Sue.  Focusing not only on unique flavors but incredible presentation, Chef Sue revealed culinary delights such as lotus-leaf steamed drum sticks with a mandala-influenced circular presentation, Sichuan-style Scotch eggs on a bed of...
Bayer Tries their Hand at Fusion Dumplings

Bayer Tries their Hand at Fusion Dumplings

Fei Fang was a little hesitant at first when we suggested a dumpling-making party for her team of Chinese and German colleagues.  She was worried the task would be too simple and cliché for her Chinese co-workers.  Fortunately, at The Hutong we specialize in putting a creative twist on everything, and Fei and her group...
Arreon Trades In Carbon Credits for Woks

Arreon Trades In Carbon Credits for Woks

They may be experts in carbon credit trading, but many Arreon employees were not quite as comfortable in the kitchen!  However, with support from their co-workers and a little elbow grease, the Arreon team cooked their way to culinary excellence.  With wine flowing, this team learned a little bit about cooking and a lot about...
Adobe's Boxing Day Spectacular

Adobe’s Boxing Day Spectacular

On December 26th, the Adobe crew celebrated boxing day at The Hutong!  First, two teams worked together to coordinate just the right combination of ingredients for egg nog and mulled wine.  Despite never having made these drinks before, the results were excellent!  Next up, Chef Sue helped the group nagivate fields of powdered sugar and...
LanDesk Puts a Twist on Corporate Communication

LanDesk Puts a Twist on Corporate Communication

LanDesk arrived in late December to participate in a Corporate Hook ‘n’ Cook with the theme of cross-cultural communication.  The group consisted of employees who work together all over the world, most meeting each other for the first time!  Experienced facilitator Stacey Shine led the group to culinary and communication victory through creating a mock...
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