Thai Cooking Class in Phuket: Learn to Make Curry & Pad Thai

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Duration4h 30m

GroupUp to 20

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

You make coconut milk and curry paste by hand, the way locals do it.

A Thai cooking class in Phuket where you visit a local market, harvest vegetables from the garden, and cook four signature dishes under instruction from a local chef. The class runs 4.5 hours in the quiet Kata area, a ten-minute walk from Kata Beach, with free hotel pickup from Patong, Karon, or Phuket Town. You take home a recipe book for 15 Thai dishes and souvenir photos from the class.

4h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Thai cooking class and market visit

Visit local fresh market
Buy fresh ingredients
See tropical fruit and veggie garden
Collect vegetables from garden
Make coconut milk traditionally
Make curry paste traditionally
Cook Thai dishes with local chef
Enjoy food cooked by yourself
Receive recipe book and souvenir photos

The Experience

The day starts at a local fresh market near Patong where you walk through stalls with your guide and buy the ingredients you'll cook with later. You'll see how locals shop for produce, fish and spices, and the guide points out what makes each one right for Thai cooking. From there you head to the kitchen in Kata, stopping first at a tropical fruit and vegetable garden where you can pick vegetables to bring into the class.

Once you're in the kitchen, you learn directly from an experienced local chef. The class covers four dishes—Tom Yum Koong, Pad Thai with Prawn, Chicken Green Curry, and Mango with Sticky Rice are among the options—and you make each one yourself. You'll make coconut milk in the traditional way and prepare curry paste by hand, not from a jar. The chef shows you the technique, then you do the work. By the end of the afternoon or morning, depending on which class you choose, you sit down and eat what you cooked.

You leave with a recipe book covering 15 Thai signature dishes so you can cook these at home, plus souvenir photos from the class. The kitchen is in a quiet part of Kata, reachable by a ten-minute walk from Kata Beach. Free pickup and drop-off are included if you're staying in Patong, Karon, or Phuket Town; a small extra charge applies for pickup from Patong area if you're booking alone.

What’s included

Local market tour with your guide.
fresh ingredients you select and buy together.
access to the tropical fruit and vegetable garden.
instruction in making coconut milk and curry paste by hand.
four Thai dishes you cook yourself.
jasmine steamed rice.
a full meal of the food you've prepared.
recipe book covering 15 Thai signature dishes.
souvenir photos from the class.
free hotel pickup and drop-off from Patong, Karon, or Phuket Town.
accident insurance.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by The Guide Thailand Co., Ltd

Is this one for you?Book the morning class if you want the market at its busiest and the afternoon free; choose the afternoon class if you prefer a later start and an evening meal. Either way, the market visit comes first, so you understand the ingredients before you cook with them.