Chiang Mai Thai Cooking Class with Local Market and Organic Garden Visit

Cook a 6-dish Thai menu at Siam Garden Cooking School with market visit, organic garden, and round-trip transfers from Chiang Mai.

Getting started

Begin with round-trip transfers in an air-conditioned vehicle from your accommodation in Old Town Chiang Mai to Siam Garden Cooking School, located outside the city. After check-in you meet your English-speaking staff and cooking instructor and join your selected Morning Cooking Class or Evening Cooking Class session. The first step is a visit to a local market to see key Thai ingredients before continuing to the school’s organic garden.

What to expect

Siam Garden Cooking School

Siam Garden Cooking School sits about 20 kilometers outside Chiang Mai and combines a hands-on Thai cooking class with time in an organic garden and Chiang Mai-style dining spaces.

Features

• Start your cooking class session by exploring the local market and then the organic garden, where you see trees, plants, and a show area with spices and herbs that you will later use in your dishes.
• Cook a selectable 6-dish menu, with 6 menu options so everyone can choose their own menu, using your own ingredients, personal wok, and individual curry-paste mortar to make curry paste from scratch.
• Benefit from English-speaking staff and an English-speaking cooking instructor, with meat, vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options available so different dietary needs are accommodated in the same group.
• Prepare and cook everything with your own hands, including learning how to cook glutinous rice for sticky rice with mango dessert, then either eat all your food on site or take it away with you.
• Spend breaks in the Chiang Mai-style dining room with air conditioning or dine in the open-air Thai pavilion at the garden, where you can relax at pavilions by the lake, listen to the sound of the waterfall, and enjoy the garden view.
• Enjoy tea, coffee, and drinking water throughout the session along with free Wi-Fi at the cooking school, and later use the full-color printed Thai recipe book plus the online recipe book to recreate dishes at home.
• After your class, access online photo albums that capture your time in the kitchen and garden, and then return to Chiang Mai with round-trip transfers in an air-conditioned vehicle included for participants.