Thai Cooking Class

[airpilot001]

I want to have a bit of experience of how to cook Thai food and now I'm looking for a Thai cook class to attend, anyone know any where which doesn't cost too much to attend just for few hours? I know "Blue Elephant" but is very expensive

[Chung noi]

Hi,

Not sure what part of Thailand you are in. If you go to Pai, checkout the Pai Cookery School. They are really nice people, it's fun, and she speaks very good English. Her name is Gaew. Goggle Pai Cookery School I bet you can find something on it.

Chung *j*

[Luckydog]

I want to have a bit of experience of how to cook Thai food and now I'm looking for a Thai cook class to attend, anyone know any where which doesn't cost too much to attend just for few hours? I know "Blue Elephant" but is very expensive

Theres a good one in Pattaya if thats where you are?

[corkscrew]

The Oriental hotel has a one week course but it is very expensive.

[Chung noi]

I have a good web site for basic Thai food.

http://www.khiewchanta.com/index.html

Has alot of the good stuff from Isaan.

Chung *j*

[suegha]

Again not sure where you are, I went to SITCA, I'm certain they have 'schools' all over Thailand. The courses are short and intensive. It taught me a lot and I bought an excellent cook book which allows me to experiment. Good luck.

[bangsaenguy]

I want to have a bit of experience of how to cook Thai food and now I'm looking for a Thai cook class to attend, anyone know any where which doesn't cost too much to attend just for few hours? I know "Blue Elephant" but is very expensive

I remember one on Sukhumvit 33/1 but don't remember the name.

[marios]

I want to have a bit of experience of how to cook Thai food and now I'm looking for a Thai cook class to attend, anyone know any where which doesn't cost too much to attend just for few hours? I know "Blue Elephant" but is very expensive

I do not know Blue Elephant and so I do not know what is too expensive. For my part, I have attended a 5 day course at Baipai together with the wife and the price was of the order of 13-14 k for both of us. the experience was great ,the set up fine. They provide return transport to the hotel.

I recommend it because now I can claim that I am a thai food chef (of sorts) but the friends love whatever we cook.

The place is in Bangkok roughly behind Rama 3 Central

Baipai, 02 294 9029

www.baipai.com

Cheers

mario

[Flutterby]

In Chiang Mai I took a class over two days at A Lot of Thai. Yui was the instructor and she was terrific. Each day we made six dishes and also went on a tour of their local market with lots of explanations about the different foods. This is a real home-based cooking school and they also give you a recipe book that contains all of their recipes. I cannot recommend it too highly.

[ngieen]

i have not find a professional serious thai food cooking workshops. all you will find is classes designed for board housewives who will not use it to feed their family as they already have a maid. other classes are tailored for westerners with the boaring same menu who want to take the experience as part of their trip experience.

mook-deng offers classes in thai lang. for the cost of 2000-3000B PER dish, a course of couple of set menus will set you back some 40,000b. and you will learn nothing more than reading a good cookbook.

[donna]

google The Thai House out near nonthaburi. the place is family run, they take you out to markets etc. well worth a look at. ive stayed there a number of times.

[Hadrian1]

http://www.wandeethaicooking.com/eng/index_eng.html

http://www.gourmetthailand.com/default.asp

I heard that the second one above had deteriorated. But I found this out on another forum. The first runs very intensive / indistrial courses if you can speak Thai. For those who cannot, there are shorter courses. I have tried e-mailing wanadee, but they just won't reply. I spoke to them on the phone once and it was hard work. I have heard though that they are pretty good. Be careful who you choose.

[tiggerclare]

The cooking school at suk 33/1 is the UFM Bakery school. They offer classes for bakeries, jap cuisines and thai cuisines too. you can google UFM bakery or Fuji supermarket. I think i saw their class schedules up there and each session is not too long. You might need to call to check out the prices for the classes.

[daxbr]

The cooking school at suk 33/1 is the UFM Bakery school. They offer classes for bakeries, jap cuisines and thai cuisines too. you can google UFM bakery or Fuji supermarket. I think i saw their class schedules up there and each session is not too long. You might need to call to check out the prices for the classes.

I will second that. Very good place to learn. Teachers speak English too.

[cimot]

heres a good one in Pattaya if thats where you are?

[devona]

Anyone know of any cooking classes in Khon Kaen or Hua Hin?? My mother is coming to visit and it would be a great birthday present for her.

[realthaideal]

Another vote for Yui's 'A lot of Thai" Cooking school in Chiang Mai. The friendliness, excellent English skills, stories, and individual attention can't be beat. And of course, you cook up some great food for a great price in her outdoor kitchen. Classes are small and personal. She also does vegetarian and other specialty lessons. It's like you've been invited into a Thai person's life and home to learn to cook. Can't beat it!

[cmsally]

Anyone else have experience of BaiPai ??

Bai Pai

Friends coming next month and they want to attend a course in BKK.

They liked the look of the website. It looks nice but I don't know of anyone who's attended, although I see 1 recommendation above.

[ComicBum]

Bit of a story for you......

Chiang Mai is the best deal in Thailand for cooking courses with daily rates from 800-1300 baht for a full-day of cooking.

However, not all cooking schools are created equal and there has been massive competition in the market over the last few years.

The sad thing with all this is that the average cooking course customer has become the no#1 entree on the menue....they are the 'sheep', and the 'wolf' is the one leading the cooking course....with a big shit-eating smile!

The big cooking schools have really become "factory" cooking schools with daily turn-over of 30-60 people per.class

These greed-crazed-clowns have to pay a high commission (50%) to the other group of greed-crazed-clowns operating in the market (the tour-agents ect..) in order to get the sheep coming in their direction. In turn, they are forced to cut-cost at every level in order to make a net-profit and live to see another day....or meal. In large operations, the standard of teaching quality and thus the experience for the customer is of a very poor value. Some business-models just don't translate well to an economy of scale, they are best, by their nature, to remain small scale, and from what I have experienced I have to say that the 'cooking school' is certainly one of them.

I came to ChiangMai to take a cooking course and visited a walk-in tour agent (chiangmai Phu-thai tour) hoping to find information about a school I researched on the net, but was told that the school was "shut-down" and would be better if I book a course with her at 'The Best' thai cooking school,owned by two brothers who also run 'the masters' cooking school. The tour agent of course highly reccommended them.....not because they were good,but because she was scooping a high commission for hooking me up.

Well to shorten this story to it's point, - unless you really want to spend your hard-earned holiday TIME socializing with 20-50 flippy-flopps where,at the end of the day you will have learned more about their home town and all it's problems than the dish you have just cooked in front of you. These "factory" cooking schools have no atmosphere for teaching and the staff are either underpaid or over-worked....or both ,to even care.

I was very disappointed with that experience and decided to try a smaller school. I found out that these schools are obscure to find because they have blocked-access to the market from the bigger cooking schools (Might is right here) - I found out about 2 schools that felt good and also located my "shut-down" school that "Meow" at Phu-Thai tour told me otherwise....what a clip-joint that is!

I spent a day with the cooking school - 'A LOT OF THAI' and two-days at SUKSABAI-THAI COOKERY CLUB, both are small scale 1-10 and the atmosphere was so different and the experince at each place was unique and the teaching methods excellant.

I loved Suksabai! it is a new school (club),very good place,beautiful location and structure, excellant for cooking and teaching. The owner is a woman called Kansinee Emyuu who is very funny and entertaining as well as serious and knowlegable with perfect english skills.The dishes offered were complete and well balanced and I learned alot about both the culture and cusine of Thailand.

After the course we even got a 30min foot massage at the local Wat... Great!!

Now, when I think about those two guys that call themselves the "Masters" at the 'best'....I just laugh,but it is a sad laugh because in ChiangMai it is not about being excellant or even good,it's about how much you can pay to get the business.

Do your self and your friends a favor and book a cooking course with a smaller company like 'a lot of thai' or SUKSABAI

and enjoy a quality - experience for your quality-time.

Both schools are the same price at 900 baht for the full-day.

CHEERS

[ComicBum]

i have not find a professional serious thai food cooking workshops. all you will find is classes designed for board housewives who will not use it to feed their family as they already have a maid. other classes are tailored for westerners with the boaring same menu who want to take the experience as part of their trip experience.

mook-deng offers classes in thai lang. for the cost of 2000-3000B PER dish, a course of couple of set menus will set you back some 40,000b. and you will learn nothing more than reading a good cookbook.

Hello

If you are serious about learning to cook real Thai food then I suggest to contact Ms.Kansinee Emyuu in ChiangMai.

She runs a small-scale recreational cooking school called SukSaBai-Thai Cookery Club, but also does a total different level

in her 'Chef-Course'- it is not advertised as such, but is something set-up for the serious student.

Of course most of the cooking schools in Thailand are the recreational-type designed for the time-killing flippy-de-flops

Not serious, but can be fun and maybe even informative.....what do you expect for 1000 baht these days!

'mook-deng' is an out standing example of the 'Greed-Crazed-Clown' Syndrome!....who is going to pay 3,000 baht to learn how to make 'Som-Tam'......come on Thai-people......get REAL!