Bangkok: Thai Cooking Class Afternoon 13:00-17:00

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Duration3h 30m

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Four Hours in a Bangkok Kitchen, Making Four Dishes From Scratch

You spend four hours at a Bangkok cooking school learning to make four Thai dishes from scratch: tom yum, pad thai, a curry, and mango sticky rice. You prep and cook at your own station with instruction, then eat everything you've made before heading out at five o'clock. No market tour is included in this afternoon class.

3h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Afternoon Thai cooking class

Start class at 13:00
Learn traditional Thai food techniques
Make curry paste
Cook Tom Yum Kung soup
Cook Pad Thai Kung noodles
Cook chicken curry (varies by day)
Prepare mango with sticky rice dessert
Enjoy your cooked food
End class at 17:00

The Experience

You walk into Tingly Thai Cooking School at one o'clock and the kitchen smells like lemongrass and fish sauce already. The class runs until five, and by the time you leave you'll have made tom yum kung (hot and sour prawn soup), pad thai with prawns, a curry — green, red, or panaeng depending on the day — and mango sticky rice for dessert. You're not watching someone else cook. You're doing it, learning the techniques for making curry paste by hand, understanding how the ingredients work together, and tasting everything as you go.

The Bangkok cooking class is structured so you prep and cook each dish yourself, which means you're standing at your own station, not sitting in a lecture. The instructor walks you through the spice ratios, the order things hit the pan, why galangal and kaffir lime leaves matter in tom yum. You learn storage methods too — how to keep Thai food tasting right when you get home and try to replicate what you've just made. The afternoon moves at a pace that lets you ask questions without feeling rushed, and you eat what you've cooked before you leave.

The menu rotates slightly depending on the day. Monday, Thursday, and Friday you make green curry with chicken; Tuesday and Saturday it's red curry; Wednesday and Sunday you get panaeng. Tom yum and pad thai are constants, as is the mango sticky rice. If you have dietary preferences or allergies, the school can work with that — just mention it when you book. Public transport is nearby if you need it, and the space is wheelchair accessible, though the hands-on cooking stations are designed for standing work.

What’s included

Your afternoon includes four hours of hands-on cooking instruction at Tingly Thai Cooking School in Bangkok, all ingredients and equipment, instruction in making curry paste and traditional Thai cooking techniques, and all four dishes you prepare (tom yum, pad thai, curry, and mango sticky rice) to eat before you leave at 5pm.

Good to know

Wheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Tingly Thai Cooking School

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn Thai cooking techniques in a single afternoon without arranging a separate market tour or spending time sourcing ingredients — the four-hour window and fixed menu let you focus on the cooking itself.