GET SPICY 🌶️

A 5 Week Journey Into Indian Spices, Chai, Culture & Cooking

What if you could learn about Indian food and spices from someone who didn't learn it from a cookbook?

Welcome to Get Spicy, an intimate five week cultural experience at Chai Walli Studios in Kilsyth, Melbourne, exploring Indian spices, chai, food, language, customs, stories and traditions.

This isn't your traditional cooking class.

It's an immersive experience built around knowledge shared person to person. Stories passed down through generations. Customs that live in kitchens. Spice knowledge rooted in lived experience.

As the granddaughter of an Ayurvedic doctor, Uppma Virdi grew up surrounded by a deep understanding of spices, food and their place in everyday Indian life.

Get Spicy is an invitation into that world.

We'll sit around the table, drink chai, talk, taste, cook, listen and learn. We'll share stories, explore traditions and get hands on with the food and spices itself. We also weave in breathwork into our weekly classes. It's an immersive cultural experience.

🌶️ FIVE WEEKS. FIVE WINDOWS INTO INDIAN CULTURE.

☕️ WEEK 1: MASALA CHAI

Sunday 27 September | 10:30am–12:30pm

The history, culture and rituals of Indian chai

Tea, spices, technique and the language of chai

Make, share and experience chai together

🔥 WEEK 2: MASALA BOX & TADKA

Sunday 4 October | 10:30am–12:30pm

Explore the iconic Indian masala dabba

Discover the stories and traditions behind Indian spices

Learn the art of tadka and building flavour

🫓 WEEK 3: ROTI

Sunday 11 October | 10:30am–12:30pm

Explore the role of roti in Indian food and family life

Learn the art of dough, kneading, rolling and cooking

Get hands on and make your own roti

🫘 WEEK 4: DAL & SABJI

Sunday 18 October | 10:30am–12:30pm

Explore the foundations of an everyday Indian meal

Learn about lentils, vegetables, spices and balance

Move beyond recipes and learn to trust your palate

🫓 WEEK 5: ALOO PARATHA

Sunday 25 October | 10:30am–12:30pm

Make spiced potato filling and traditional dough

Learn the art of stuffing, rolling and cooking paratha

Finish around the table with food, stories and a final feast

🪷 MORE THAN A COOKING CLASS

Get Spicy is for anyone who wants to understand the culture behind Indian food, not just learn a few recipes.

We'll explore stories, customs, language, traditions, spice knowledge, Ayurveda, food rituals and grounding breathwork alongside hands on cooking.

This is knowledge that has travelled through generations.

From grandparent to grandchild.

From kitchen to kitchen.

From one generation to the next.

We're creating space for some of those stories to be shared again.

🫶 AN INTIMATE EXPERIENCE

There are just 4 places per cohort.

That's intentional.

We want this to feel like being welcomed into someone's kitchen, not sitting in a crowded cooking class.

There is time to ask questions, taste, talk, share stories, make mistakes and learn the things you won't find in a recipe.

Five weeks. Four people. Centuries of knowledge.

📍 Chai Walli Studios, Kilsyth, Victoria

Approximately 40 minutes from Melbourne CBD, at the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges.

Perfect for anyone looking for an Indian cooking class in Melbourne, Indian spice workshop, masala chai experience or immersive Indian cultural experience.

Come curious. Leave with a little more knowledge, a lot more spice and stories you'll remember. 🌶️🫖🪷