Thai Cooking Class in Hua Hin: 4 Dishes at Talad Chat Chai

Make 5 dishes: green curry paste, green curry with chicken, pad Thai, tom yum soup, and coconut dessert

A 4-hour cooking class in Hua Hin where you prepare and cook five authentic Thai dishes in a traditional teak house, beginning with a visit to the 100-year-old Talad Chat Chai market to select ingredients. The class includes pickup and drop-off within Hua Hin town, lunch, a recipe booklet, and a certificate of completion.

The experience

Four hours starts at Talad Chat Chai, the 100-year-old fresh food market in Hua Hin's town center. You walk through the stalls with your instructors, learning which ingredients go into Thai cooking and how locals shop for them daily. This is not a quick stop. You are there to understand what you are buying and why it matters to the dishes you will make. After the market, you move to a traditional Thai teak house where the actual cooking happens.

You prepare and cook five dishes: green curry paste from scratch, gaeng keaw wan gai (green curry with chicken), pad Thai, tom yum goong (the four-flavor soup with shrimp), and khanom lod chong (a Thai dessert in coconut milk). Your instructors guide you through each one, and you handle the knife work, the paste-making, the timing. Lunch is the food you cooked, eaten in the teak house. You leave with a recipe booklet and a certificate so you can make these at home.

Pickup and drop-off within Hua Hin town are included, along with bottled water, snacks, coffee and tea. Alcoholic and soft drinks are available to purchase. The whole class runs four hours from start to finish.

What’s included

• Market visit to Talad Chat Chai.
• preparation and cooking of five Thai dishes (green curry paste, green curry with chicken, pad Thai, tom yum soup, and coconut dessert).
• lunch of the food you cooked.
• recipe booklet.
• certificate of completion.
• bottled water.
• snacks.
• coffee and tea.
• pickup and drop-off within Hua Hin town area.

Before you book

Days and timesEvery dayDeparts at 09:00

AgesAdult (12 and older) · Child (6 to 11 years) · Infant (under 6): free

Meeting point and pickupHotel pickup is optional; you can also go straight to the meeting point. Ends back at the starting point.Operator's directions: “The Clocktower is a meeting point where most hotel shuttles pick up & drop off. There is a Starbucks coffee next door. It is located at the junction of Petchkasem Rd and Naebkehardt Rd.”

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24h before the start. After that, no refund.It may be canceled if the minimum number of travelers isn't reached. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund.

Prices and times updated 16 days ago

Good to know

Stroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Thai Cooking Course Hua Hin

Is this one for you?Book this class if you want to learn by doing rather than watching. You handle the knife, make the paste, and cook each dish start to finish. The market visit at the beginning sets up why Thai cooking works the way it does, so the techniques stick when you get home.

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Top questions

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Child (6 to 11 years); Infant (under 6): free.

What is Talad Chat Chai and why do we go there first?

Talad Chat Chai is Hua Hin's 100-year-old fresh food market in the town center, where locals shop daily. You visit at the start of the class to learn which ingredients Thai cooking uses and to select what you will cook with, so you understand the market before you use its contents in the kitchen.

Do I cook the dishes myself or watch a demonstration?

You prepare and cook all five dishes yourself with guidance from your instructors. They teach you the techniques (how to make the curry paste, how to time the noodles, how to balance the flavors in tom yum), and you do the work in the teak house kitchen.

What happens to the food I cook?

You eat it for lunch in the traditional teak house. The five dishes you make are the meal, so you taste what you have learned to prepare.

Is pickup from my hotel included?

Pickup and drop-off within Hua Hin town area are included in the class price. The instructors arrange the timing when you book.

Do I need to know how to cook Thai food before I sign up?

No. This is an introduction to Thai cooking, and the instructors are described as friendly and knowledgeable. They teach you from the beginning, starting at the market and moving through each dish step by step in the teak house.