Fruit And Vegetable Carving Class In Bangkok?

[Monkey Fish]

My friend is visiting for a few days and wants to take a one day class in fruit and vegetable carving. Any recommendations?

Thanks for your help.

[lingling]

My friend is visiting for a few days and wants to take a one day class in fruit and vegetable carving. Any recommendations?

Thanks for your help.

http://carvinginstitute.com/

Edited January 23, 2007 by lingling

[Monkey Fish]

Thanks for the suggestion.

As something of a partial answer to my own question, my friends took a two hour class from the Nipa restaurant at the Landmark Hotel:

http://www.landmarkbangkok.com/dining_nipa.html

The class was 450 baht/person and mostly consisted of a non-English speaking Thai showing them each step individually as they were ready for it. They enjoyed it, but were fairly exhausted after 2 hours of concentrating on the detailed carving, so I think one would need to be pretty dedicated to commit to the longer (and more expensive) classes.

[lingling]

Thanks for the suggestion.

As something of a partial answer to my own question, my friends took a two hour class from the Nipa restaurant at the Landmark Hotel:

http://www.landmarkbangkok.com/dining_nipa.html

The class was 450 baht/person and mostly consisted of a non-English speaking Thai showing them each step individually as they were ready for it. They enjoyed it, but were fairly exhausted after 2 hours of concentrating on the detailed carving, so I think one would need to be pretty dedicated to commit to the longer (and more expensive) classes.

There is also an old lady (in her 80s something) who used to work in the royal palace and now teaches fruit carving in her house in Bang Lamphu. She don't speak a word of english though, so nothing for tourists. There is also a book published about her, but I can't remember her name at the moment.

[leisurely]

Pretty vague directions i know, but in the basement of Central Bangna and on one of the floors there are fruit and soap carving classes going on. Depends on your area.