Krabi Thai Cooking Class with Recipe Book & Hotel Pickup

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · TH

PickupAt your hotel

Cook Thai food the way locals do, starting at the market in Ao Nang

You shop the local market with the chef, then spend the day learning to make curry paste, pad thai, red curry and Thai salads from scratch using a stone mortar and traditional techniques. Lunch is the food you cooked. You leave with a recipe book and the confidence to cook Thai food at home. Hotel transfer is included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Learn authentic Thai cooking techniques

Choose fresh ingredients
Discover secrets of Thai cooking
Prepare curry paste using mortar
Cook dishes like Massaman Curry and Pad Thai
Enjoy the Thai specialties prepared

The Experience

Ya, the chef who runs the school in Ao Nang, doesn't start you in the kitchen — she starts you at the market. You walk through the stalls together, and she points out which chilies have the heat you want, which herbs are fresh that morning, how to pick a coconut that will give you the right milk for curry. It's the part most cooking classes skip, and it's the part that changes how you cook when you get home. The class runs the full day, small groups only, and everything happens in English so you're not guessing at what comes next.

Once you're back at the school, you begin with curry paste — grinding chilies, garlic, galangal and lemongrass together in a stone mortar, learning how the texture and smell shift as you work. That paste becomes the base for the dishes you'll cook: red curry chicken, massaman curry, spicy prawn soup, pad thai, stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts, mint salad. Ya moves between stations, correcting your knife angle or the heat under your pan, and you taste as you go. The balance of salty, sour, sweet and spicy isn't something you read about — you taste it wrong, adjust it, taste it right. By the time you finish, you've cooked five or six dishes from scratch using traditional techniques, not shortcuts.

Lunch is what you made. You sit down and eat the food you spent the morning preparing, and that's when it lands — you actually know how to do this now. Before you leave, you get a recipe book in English with everything you cooked, so the skills don't fade the moment you're back in your own kitchen. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, and any dish can be made vegetarian or adjusted to your spice tolerance.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel round-trip transfer, a market visit with the chef to select fresh ingredients, the full cooking class with professional instruction, all ingredients and traditional utensils, lunch featuring the dishes you prepared, a recipe book in English, and drinking water throughout. All meals and ingredients are provided, and dishes can be adapted for vegetarian preferences or spice tolerance.

Operated by Trip Store Krabi

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn Thai cooking from someone who knows the cuisine, not just follow recipes — the market stop and stone-mortar techniques are what make the difference between a class and actual skill you'll use at home.