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Smashed Cucumber & Sesame Salad
From $119 per person, and it falls as the group grows.
Under 5 guests: $695 flat (5-seat minimum).
Virtual event rate includes personal chef, dedicated event planner, zoom host, ingredient delivery and gratuities.
Smashing cucumbers isn’t just fun, it enhances their texture and ability to soak up bold flavors. This refreshing Chinese-inspired salad is tossed with garlic, sesame, and a hint of spice, making it a crisp, cooling complement to rich or spicy dishes. Enjoy with a glass of champagne or add a Sake tasting.
Adjustments are free — tell your planner and the kits change.
Add a Sake pairing to complement the Asian flavors of this dish.
Add a little celebration with a champagne pairing add-on to enjoy a delicious glass of bubbly champagne with any dish.
From the moment you book to the moment the chef says hello.
When you book
A $250 deposit reserves the date and comes off the total in full. Dates 2 weeks out book instantly; sooner than that, ask and we can often expedite.
Within a day
Every event gets a dedicated planner, at no cost. They shape it around your team — the menu, the timings, dietary needs, and the parts that make it yours.
As soon as you like
We send every guest a short form to fill in themselves, so you never chase anyone for a home address. Prefer to handle it yourself? Send us the list instead.
14 days before
That is the deadline for free standard shipping anywhere in the US. International delivery is available to most countries at additional cost, and those addresses are due earlier.
The day before or the day of
Not a box packed a week ago: each guest's ingredients are bought fresh at a local store — Whole Foods first choice, or the best grocer near them — and delivered to their door, so what they cook with is fresh on the day.
Event day
One link, no software to install. Your planner is on hand in the background if anything needs sorting mid-event.
A breakdown of how the 60 min runs.
0:00 – 0:05
Meet your chef and host, run through the ingredients and equipment, and say hello to the team.
0:05 – 0:13
Prep and portion everything before the cooking starts — the step that makes the rest calm.
0:13 – 0:36
The chef leads the dish step by step, at a pace the whole group can follow, with tips as you go.
0:36 – 0:44
While something rests or bakes, the host runs a short icebreaker or trivia round.
0:44 – 0:52
Bring it together, plate it up and learn how a chef would serve it.
0:52 – 1:00
Eat what you made, take the team photo, and ask the chef anything.
Default video platform
Zoom
Everything else is in the box we ship to each guest.
Ingredients ship free in the US
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Cancellation
Refund of amounts paid, less any documented nonrecoverable costs already incurred.
Your choice: a 50% refund of the recoverable event amount, or a Rockoly credit for 100% of it.
Payments are nonrefundable. The event may still be eligible for rescheduling.
Rescheduling
One complimentary reschedule is permitted.
A rescheduling fee of 10% of the Event Subtotal or $250, whichever is greater.
A rescheduling fee of 25% of the Event Subtotal or $500, whichever is greater.
Headcount is confirmed 10 business days out, and credits last 12 months. The full terms — including no-shows, weather and what counts as a nonrecoverable cost — are in our Event Terms & Conditions.
Smashing rather than slicing is the entire idea and it does something a knife can't — the ragged torn edges hold dressing where a clean cut surface sheds it, and the broken structure lets the salt draw water out faster. Chef Quan explained why rather than just saying to hit it with the flat of a blade. Salting and draining before dressing is the other half; skip it and you have a puddle within ten minutes.
Dakota
Genuinely good one to do with children, because the main activity is hitting vegetables with a heavy object and that is an easy sell to anyone under twelve. Nothing sharp is strictly needed and there's no heat at all. Ours ate cucumber voluntarily, which had not previously been achieved in our house.
Drew
I'd never made anything like this and had assumed a cucumber salad was inherently boring. The dressing is where it lives — garlic, sesame, black vinegar and a bit of chilli — and the balance was explained as a ratio rather than a list, so I've made it several times since with what I had. It takes about ten minutes.
Diego
A whole session built around one very simple side dish sounds thin and works because the technique behind it is genuinely counterintuitive — you're taught why a physical process changes how an ingredient behaves, which is a more interesting lesson than another recipe. It's also the shortest thing we've booked and one of the few people have actually repeated.
Mina
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