Chiang Mai Thai Cooking Class with Local Market Tour

Join a Thai cottage cooking class with an expert guide, market visit, and hands-on dishes in a traditional organic kitchen.

Getting started

Begin your Thai cooking class session by meeting your expert guide, who arranges your round-trip transfers between your hotel and the Thai cottage. On arrival, you receive a welcome drink and drinking water, then get introduced to the complete set of cooking ingredients and equipment you will use. Your instructor explains the flow of the class before you head out to your first stop.

What to expect

Local market, herb garden and organic Thai kitchen

Your experience starts with a visit to a local market, followed by a walk through a Thai herb garden before settling into a traditional Thai kitchen set within an organic garden.

Features

• At the local market, your professional guide helps you identify fresh produce and key ingredients you will later use, giving context to Thai flavors and how they are sourced.
• In the herb garden, you see and smell Thai herbs up close while learning how each one appears in the five Thai dishes you will prepare.
• Once at the organic Thai kitchen, your Thai cooking class session moves into a hands-on format, with a complete set of cooking ingredients and equipment laid out at your workstation.

Thai cottage cooking class

Back in the cottage kitchen, you follow step-by-step instruction to cook a multi-course Thai family-style meal tailored to your preferences.

Features

• You prepare five Thai dishes tailored to dietary needs, with each dish modified on request so individual dietary restrictions are respected without losing Thai techniques.
• During the class, your expert guide demonstrates curry paste making using a mortar and pestle, then you make your own curry paste from scratch to use in your dishes.
• Printed recipes and a digital Thai recipe e-book are provided, so you can recreate each of the five Thai dishes at home using the methods you learn in class.
• Throughout the cooking session, welcome drink refills and drinking water are available, so you can focus on cooking while staying comfortable.

Traditional Thai family-style meal and dessert

After cooking, you sit down in the cottage setting to taste everything you have prepared together.

Features

• The dishes are served in a traditional Thai family-style cooking and meal format, so you share and sample all five Thai dishes with the rest of the group.
• To finish, you discover the techniques for cooking sticky rice before assembling a sticky rice with mango dessert, then enjoy this sweet sticky rice with mango as the final course.
• Your professional guide remains with you during the meal, answering questions about the recipes, ingredients, and adaptations you might want to make when cooking Thai food at home.