Cooking Classes Hua Hin

If you enjoy Thai cuisine, taking a cooking class is a chance to learn how to cook Thai food, so you can still enjoy it back home. During a fun half or full day course, you’ll learn Thai cooking techniques from a local chef.

Prepare some of Thailand’s most delicious dishes as Gaeng Keow Wan Gai (green curry with chicken) or Tom Kha Gai (chicken coconut soup with galangal) and a dessert like mango sticky rice, one of the country’s favorite desserts.

Cooking classes

There are several cooking schools in Hua Hin. Duration of the class and the menus vary from school to school.

Tom Kha Gai
Chicken coconut soup with galangal

Visit to a local market

The cooking class usually starts with a visit to a local market, where the instructor will choose the best and freshest ingredients for the class. Walking around the market with its abundance of sounds, colors and scents is a fun experience in itself.

Apart from the meat, fish, vegetables and fruits, the market displays an enormous variety of spices and herbs like coriander, turmeric, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lemongrass and of course many kinds of chilies.

A bowl of Massaman curry with chicken, potatoes and peanuts

Massaman curry with chicken and potatoes

Half day or full day program

On a half day cooking class you will learn how to cook several main dishes and a dessert. If you take a full day class you will also learn how to cook a starter like spring rolls and to prepare basic ingredients such as curry paste using a mortar and pestle or coconut milk, the basis for many dishes.

Flavors of the Thai kitchen

There are four main flavors in Thai cuisine, namely sour, sweet, spicy and salty. Usually a meal consists of dishes with different flavors. Learn how to achieve a meal with a balance of flavors that complement each other so that all main tastes are present making it a harmonious meal.