Thai Cooking Class with Market Tour in Phuket by VJ

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What You’ll Experience
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3 hours
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1 - 10 guests
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English
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Discover the secrets of Thai cuisine with VJ's cooking class in Phuket. Tour a vibrant market, learn essential skills, create dishes and curry paste from scratch, and savor your creations.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

• Thai cooking classes conducted by VJ, an ideal home-style learning environment that is different from other cooking classes and hotels which offer the courses.

• Visit the local market. Thai markets with all their colors smells and sounds will give you an authentic look into a very interesting part of Thai culture. You will also learn about different Thai vegetables and herbs.

• Learn the essential skills and techniques you can use every day! Thai cooking will be very simple and taught in very easy steps so it would be easier for you to cook yourselves at home.

• Make your own Curry Paste from scratch using Mortar and Pestle (No MSG and no buying ready-made ones from the market)Also as a part of our cooking

• Learn how to make from scratch some of the most well known favorite Thai 3-4 dishes. You will gain a very all-round knowledge of Thai cooking and dine on your creations after the class.

Sample Menu

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Curry Paste Red/Green, Chicken Green/Red Curry, PadThai, Tom Yum Kung, Mango with Sticky Rice
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Food item for Tuesday
Curry Paste Red/Green, Chicken Red/Green Curry, Stir Fried Chicken with Basil Leaves, PadThai, Tom Yum Kung
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Curry Paste Green/Massaman, Chicken Green/Massaman Curry, Tom Yum Kung, Thai Fried Rice, Thai Spring Rolls
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Food item for Thursday
Curry Paste Green/Paneang, Chicken Green/Red Curry, Chicken with Cashew Nuts Stir Fry, PadThai, Mango with Sticky Rice
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Food item for Friday
Curry Paste Green/Paneang, Tom Yum Kung, PadThai, Stir fry chicken with cashew nuts
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Food item for Saturday
Curry Paste Red/Green, Chicken Green/Red Curry, Pineapple Fried Rice, Tom Yum Soup, Thai Spring rolls
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Food item for Sunday
Curry Paste Red/Green, Chicken Red/Green Curry, Tom Yum Soup, Padthai, Som Tum Papaya Salad

What You Get

Light refreshments, Bottled water (unlimited)
All ingredients
Printed colored recipes for you to take back.

Good To Know

  • There is a minimum of 2 people required to run this tour! A maximum of 6 people
  • The activity is not recommended for children aged 1-8 yrs.
  • Public transportation options are available nearby

What You’ll Experience

Your journey begins with a quick transfer from your accommodation to the Phuket Thai Cooking school, with pick up roughly 30-40 minutes before your scheduled start time. Departure for the local morning market. Our chef will guide you while you discover the diverse Thai fruits and vegetables. Explain the use of multicolored spices and buying fresh ingredients to be used to cook at the class. Return to the cooking class. We will quickly teach you all you need to know about the herbs, vegetables, and spices used in Thai food. We teach and let you make your own Curry Paste from scratch using mortar and pestle. Savor a mouthwatering Thai made by yourself. • 10:30am - 10:50am Pickup at your hotel lobby • 11:00am Local Market tour (walking you through the authentic lifestyle and buying fresh ingredients to be used to cook at the class, fruit tasting). • 11:45am Arriving at our class will be served with water and herbal drinks. Get to know each other participants, relax, take pictures. • 12:00pm Introduction to ingredients home-style session begins, serving and eating what you have cooked, enjoying the meals together. • 02:00pm End of class and ready to go back.

Meeting & Pickup

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• We pick only from Kata, Karon, Patong, and Rawai for 2 people and more. We don't pick up in another area. Although there are 2 customers, they have to come to the location by themselves. • Please plan to meet your tour guide at your hotel lobby at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled pick-up time • If you arrive more than 10 minutes late or after we have moved from your hotel, you may be considered a no-show
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Meeting Point

Phuket Thai Cooking Class by Chef VJ, Patak Road, Amphoe Mueang Phuket Chang Wat Phuket, Thailand, TH, 83100

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We pick only from Kata, Karon, Patong, Rawai for 2 people and more. We don't pick up in another area. Although there are 2 customers, they have to come to the location by themselves.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Authentic cooking with a pinch of fun
November 19, 2024
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Fantastic authentic cooking from making a paste to cooking. We cooked 5 dishes from scratch. A great trip all around with a great atmosphere and learning experience

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April 05, 2024
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This classes exceeded my expectations! Starting off with the market tour was a great treat. I was able to bring back some of the ingredients home and I couldn’t be any happier. We made 4 dishes wit...read more

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Great fun and well organised
February 09, 2024
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My daughter (20’s) and I booked for the cooking element, without the market tour and had a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours cooking traditional dishes. The class is well organised so that you g...read more

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Best Thai cooking class!
March 18, 2023
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If you love Thai food, take this class!! VJ does an amazing job! She is friendly, has a great sense of humor, and her instructions were easy to follow while keeping the class fun and enjoyable. Her...read more

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Absolutely amazing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 04, 2022
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Absolutely amazing!! We really loved doing a Thai cooking class. VJ was so clear and informative, with a lot of humour as well. We did 4 different recipes, all to eat - we didn’t expect to be doing...read more

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