Cooking activities in Thailand
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Koh Chang Thai Cookery School
Slices, dices and sautés in a shady open-air kitchen beside the estuary.
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Time for Lime
On Hat Khlong Dao, this place has a huge, professional kitchen with plenty of room to run amok. It offers cooking courses with a slightly more exciting selection of dishes than most cookery schools in Thailand; five-hour courses cost 1800B with substantial discounts if you take more than one class. Profits from the school help finance Lanta Animal Welfare.
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Baan Thai
Has an in-town location where you can select which dishes to prepare; most of their courses include a tour of a local market – very useful for identifying local fruit and veg.
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Thai Farm Cooking School
Thai Farm Cooking School teaches cooking classes at its organic farm, located 17km outside of Chiang Mai.
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Samui Institute of Thai Culinary Arts
If you're contemplating a Thai cooking course, SITCA is the place to do it. It has daily Thai-cooking classes and courses in the aristocratic Thai art of carving fruits and vegetables into intricate floral designs. Lunchtime classes begin at 11am, while dinner starts at 4pm (both cost 1950B for a three-hour course with three or more dishes). Included is an excellent tutorial about procuring ingredients in your home country. Of course you get to eat your projects, and even invite a friend along for the meal. Complimentary DVDs with Thai cooking instruction are also available so you can practise at home.
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Beach House Cooking School
At this chic beach cafe you first peruse the menu, then circle the intriguing dishes, because you’ll learn to make them during the three-hour cooking class run by the owner/chef. The dining room has live trees rising through the roof, and the student kitchen has ocean views.
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Pum Cooking School
This restaurant chain (three locations in Thailand and two in France) holds several daily one- to six-hour classes (4650B per person), with a four-student limit. Longer classes begin with a market tour and end with a meal. All students leave with a recipe book.
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Buchabun Art & Crafts Collection
Aspiring chefs should sign up for a half-day Thai cooking class that includes a market visit and recipe book. They only run it if several people are interested.
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Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School
This Cookery School is one of Chiang Mai’s first cooking schools and holds classes at the Wok restaurant and in a rural setting outside of Chiang Mai. The school also has a ‘masterclass’ with a northern Thai menu.
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KaTi
Across from Tropicana Resort, is run by a mother and daughter team teaching family recipes.
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Gap's Thai Culinary Art School
Affiliated with the guest house Gap's House (where you can make your booking) and holds its classes out of town at the owner's house.
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Asia Scenic Thai Cooking
Run by Khun Gayray who speaks great English and has done some backpacking herself.
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