Khao Lak Thai Cooking Class: Hands-on Market Tour with Pakinnaka School

Experience a hands-on Thai cooking class in Khao Lak with a renowned international chef. Learn unique techniques and authentic recipes in a beautiful garden setting. Suitable for vegans, vegetarians, and even children!

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Soi Noen Thong - We will pick you up from your hotel between 10:00 - 10:30 AM. Then we go to the local fresh market in order to learn about the ingredients you will use while cooking; Thai herbs, vegetables, spices used in the homemade chili pastes. You will also learn about where everything at the market comes from; seafood, fresh coconut milk, meats, and all the tropical fruit. While at the market you will also have the opportunity to shop for yourself.

  • Back at the cooking class you will cook 3 courses using the ingredients from the market.

  • Learn to make the curry pastes from scratch and cook with your own homemade curry paste.

  • With Wandee’s many years of experience you will learn about traditional cooking methods, as well as learn to cook royal Thai recipes.

  • Q&A session at every cooking class.

  • The recipes of what you cook will be available after the class.

  • Amazing cooking environment in a new bamboo hut in the garden.

What's Included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off (Khaolak Area)
  • Guided market tour
  • Cooking 3 Thai dishes
  • Lunch
  • Bottled water
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • Drinks
Meal Options
  • Deep fried pork with lemongrass. - Deep fried pork minced mix with herb and wrapped with lemongrass. Serve with sweet chilli sauce
  • Kaeng Chu Chi Pla( Traditional Southern curry from scratch). - A selection of Andaman fish cooked it with homemade curry paste from scratch and fresh coconut milk from our local market.
  • Bualoi (Thai riceball in warm coconut milk) - Traditional Thai dessert made from stickey rice flour and special ingredients. Unique preparation. Boil in hot water and cook in warm coconut milk.
  • Yam Som O (Pomelo Salad) - Super fresh and full of colour dish, Pomelo mix in traditional dressing salad such as fish sauce, lime, chilli oil and sugar. Refreshing and tasteful.
Additional Information

Hands-on training with a well-known international Thai Chef, Wandee Rathanapan who recently has been choosen as a Teacher for 2 finalists Amazon Prime Series; “The World Cook Season 2” . Wandee worked as a Thai Chef in different countries such as New Zealand and Iceland and more . More than 10 years as Chef and cooking teacher and 7 years as Food Tour Leader .

Cooking in a lovely open air kitchen and beautiful garden environment of Khao Lak Center.

Unique cooking techniques in the tradition Thai ways that only an experienced Thai chef can teach you. Authentic way of making each dish such as curry from scratch and fresh ingredients such as fresh coconut milk, herbs, veggies, meat and seafood.

Own cooking station for all students including a gas stove, own cutting board with all knives, spoons and spatulas, a mortar, an apron, and hand towels.

Gluten free,Vegan and Vegetarian dishes are one of my specialties, and let’s not forget that I am used to cook with children as well.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Dress code is casual
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Safari66948189542
Sep 3, 2024
Such a wonderful experience, I would highly recommend - I had an amazing time. The whole experience was something I'll never forget, from visiting the local market through to trying the food we cooked. As my wife has allergies, we were able to adapt some of the recipes to make sure she was able to try what we wanted. The food itself was fantastic and there was so much we couldn't finish it, but we were able to take the extra food back to the hotel with us, which was a nice bonus Sadly, due to the weather being a bit too hot for me, I did feel a bit unwell and had to sit out of part of the experience, but I was so well looked after that I can't wait to come back again another time. I would definitely recommend Pakinnaka cooking school to anyone visiting the area
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Veraw924
Aug 30, 2024
We enjoyed it! - We enjoyed it!! Just the market where the ingredients were bought was quite an experience!! We were all allowed to taste and smell things, super nice!! Also the cooking was super!! We found out that Wande participated in "The world cook season 2" on Amazon prime, makes it extra fun😉! It was really super fun and tasty!!🤩
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Vjg0703
Aug 20, 2024
Cooked up a storm!! - Wandee is WONDERFUL! I booked this for my family - 5 adults. Throughout the booking process, Wandee responded to any enquiries quickly and clearly and we arranged everything before our holiday. We were collected from our hotel at 3:30 where we were taken to a local food market. We sampled some local items as suggested by Wandee, she talked us through the ingredients that we needed for our chosen dishes, allowing us to smell and sample herbs and spice mixes. Once we had all of our ingredients purchased, we went to the cooking school. We were offered cold drinks when we arrived and then got straight down to cooking. My mum doesn’t do well with spice, and Wandee was very respectful of this, supporting her with choices to minimise the heat. For round one we made spring rolls and moo ping - both were delicious! For our main course we had drunken prawn/chicken and massaman curry. They were absolutely fantastic!! Wandee is very knowledgeable about Thai cooking and passionate to share this with others and her English is exceptional! What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon! Thank you Wandee and team!
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Tomassx1814fe
Aug 12, 2024
The best! - Fantastic! Wandee is very friendly and funny! She makes you feel at home and feels like we know here already for a 100 years. Great spot. Lovely ladies, and great with kids!!
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Ruthpu643we
Aug 9, 2024
Big Thank You - This is definitely a Top Ten to do while visiting Khao Lak. Professionally conducted Cooking Class which was fun, rewarding and delicious. Wandee our Instructor was an absolute delight and made all feel welcome and patiently handled the class with ease and expertise. We would highly recommend anyone to partipate in joining Wandee. This was a highlight of our holiday. Hats off to you Wandee!! Chrissie and Ruth Australia
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686robz
Aug 9, 2024
We just loved it. - I just loved Wandee, loved her enthusiasm, loved the cooking experience, loved the food, and we just really enjoyed the whole day.
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Marcelz714
Aug 5, 2024
Excellent Thai cooking class - Today we had a verry good cooking Class. First go to the Market to buy fresh ingrediënts. Wandee told a lot about all the Products en later on we prepared the menu’s. She dit it verry well with her staff en we learned a lot. We take the recepies with us so we can prepare at Home the delicious menus. 🙏👍. It was a Great experience, one of the best days of our holiday.
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Nifty101
Aug 4, 2024
Thai cooking at it's best - Food and cooking experience, highly recommended. If you are ever travelling or staying in Thailand near Khao Lak, this is a great way to spend a morning or afternoon.
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Alisonbs4397wm
Aug 4, 2024
Wnoderful - What a wonderful experience. Wandee is a fantastic teacher. All our food was amazing. Wandee even let us taste the fish that she was eating for her own lunch and she cooked an extra meal so that we could have prawns. Thoroughly recommend thaw cooking school if you want traditional flavors. Cold beers too.
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Casey_o
Jul 27, 2024
Brilliant - Fabulous experience with Wandee and staff. Wandee was amazingly generous with her time, extensive knowledge and answering questions. What an amazing lifestory and travels. Looking forward to visiting the new establishment in Krabi when that is set up
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