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Krabi Thai Cooking Class: 5 Dishes & Fruit Carving

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Duration4h

GroupUp to 15

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

You Pick Five Dishes to Cook in an Open-Air Kitchen in Krabi

You choose five Thai dishes to cook hands-on in an open-air kitchen with a professional instructor, learning techniques for soups, curries, stir-fries, appetizers and desserts using fresh market ingredients. The class caps at twelve people so you get individual attention at your own station. You eat what you cook, take home a recipe book and certificate, and hotel pickup and drop-off are included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Pick-up from hotel
Prepare fresh local ingredients
Learn about Thai herbs and spices
Cook five chosen Thai dishes
Practice basic fruit carving techniques
Enjoy the meal you prepared
Receive culinary certificate
Drop-off at hotel

The Experience

There's something about standing in front of a wok that's not yours, about to learn how to make pad thai from someone who's spent a decade in five-star kitchens, that makes you realize you've been eating Thai food wrong the whole time. You arrive at Aonang Thai Cookery School and the instructor, Sow, walks you through the market ingredients laid out on the counter — fresh basil, lemongrass, galangal — and suddenly the spice combinations that seemed mysterious when you ordered takeout start to make sense. The class stays small, never more than twelve people, so you're not standing in the back watching someone else's wok.

The structure is simple: you choose five dishes across the categories — a soup, a stir-fry, an appetizer, a salad, a curry paste or curry, and a dessert — and then you cook them. Not watch someone cook them. You get your own station, your own wok, and Sow moves between students offering guidance without hovering. The ingredients come fresh from the local market that morning, no artificial coloring or flavoring in the kitchen, and you learn the technique for each one as you go: how to bruise the basil to release the oils, when the oil should smoke, how to know when a curry paste is ready. If you want everything vegetarian, vegan, spicy or mild, the school adjusts without fuss. You're not locked into a set menu.

After you finish cooking, you eat what you made. That break from the beach, that meal you prepared yourself in a kitchen that smells like real Thai cooking, changes how you think about the whole thing. You leave with a recipe book, a certificate, and the knowledge that you can actually make this food at home. Hotel pickup and drop-off in the Ao Nang area are included, so you don't have to figure out transport or timing — you just show up ready to cook.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off in the Ao Nang area, hands-on instruction from a chef with 10 years of experience in five-star hotels and restaurants, fresh market ingredients prepared in an open-air kitchen, the choice of five dishes across soup, stir-fry, appetizer, salad, curry and dessert categories, food tasting, drinking water, a complimentary recipe book, and a certificate of completion.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn Thai cooking in a small group without arranging your own transport or choosing from a fixed menu — the hands-on format and individual station mean you're actually cooking, not watching, and the hotel pickup takes the logistics off your hands.