Thai Cooking Class Bangkok: Choose 5 Dishes + Market Tour

Most Bangkok cooking classes set a menu and let you watch. This one lets you choose five dishes from more than 20 options and cook every one yourself, with no fixed menu and no demonstrations. It suits travellers who want to cook rather than observe, and anyone who would rather pick dishes they actually want to eat than follow a set course.

What the class looks like

The class runs for 3 hours 30 minutes and starts with a visit to a local fresh market. The point is to learn about the ingredients, herbs and spices that go into Thai cooking before you handle them in the kitchen.

From there you cook step by step with an expert chef in a professional, fully air-conditioned kitchen. You choose and cook five dishes from the 20+ options, and part of the session is pounding your own curry paste from scratch. Recipes come with the class, along with online access to cooking videos, so you can repeat the dishes at home.

A meal is included: lunch if you book the morning class, dinner if you book the afternoon one.

Good to know

Your instructor meets you just outside Exit 3 of BTS On Nut Station, on the upper level. The school is two minutes from the station, which makes it straightforward to reach from Sukhumvit and central Bangkok.

All ingredients and cooking equipment are included. Alcoholic drinks and sodas are available to buy but are not part of the class, and hotel pickup and drop-off are not provided, so plan your own way to On Nut. The class runs in English for groups of up to 16 people, and it is listed as an easy activity.