A Thai Cooking Adventure — The Best Way to Blow Fifty Bucks In Bangkok!
Bangkok, Thailand is a swirling, teeming city bursting with exotic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. The food scene here is especially vibrant, with ethnic flavors imported from around the world blending harmoniously with the classic Thai components of sticky, sweet, spicy and savory. Meals are often fresh, locally sourced, maddeningly simple and yet complex enough to intrigue and inspire chefs the world over.
We’ve found a fantastic shopping/cooking/tasting field trip that may be the most brag-worthy experience you’ll have here in this world-class city. The Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy is now offering hands-on, half-day cooking excursions for beginners and seasoned food tourists that, at about 1000 baht ($50 US) per person, may just be the best bang for your buck in all of Bangkok!
Your adventure begins when you meet your English-speaking chef/instructor at, oddly enough, the local Dunkin’ Donuts shop. He’ll be your guide as you explore the exciting Asoke produce and seafood market, where you’ll select the fresh peppers, spices, herbs, vegetables, and sea foods you’ll be cooking with later. Thailand’s year-long growing season ensures that thrilling local flavors are always in season, and this market is not to be missed!
Then you’re off the to Bankok Thai Cooking Academy, housed in a comfortable local residence in the heart of Sukhumvit. Classes are small and personal, and you instructor will patiently guide you through the preparation of sauces, sticky rice and various curry pastes. You’ll sit cross-legged on the floor on woven straw mats to make your own coconut milk — so essential to Thai cooking — in the painstaking traditional way. Then it’s off to your own cooking station, where you’ll combine your ingredients in a sizzling wok just as Thais have done for centuries. When your meal is complete, you’ll sit down to an amazing feast with your new Thai friends and fellow classmates.
Before you leave, you’ll receive a recipe booklet containing basic Thai cooking knowledge and recipes of the meals prepared in your class. (Those completing two or more classes get a spiffy Certificate of Achievement.) And of course, your friends back home will love your newly acquired skills…I can just hear the conversations now:
“Oh my god, this Thai fried pork is amazing!”
“You think? I learned to make it at a cooking school in Bangkok.”
“Really? Wow, I hate you!”
The Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy offers a total of seven classes (five standard menus plus two BEST OF THAILAND repertoires), and teach a total of 25 Thai dishes. You can select the day and the meals for your adventure as follows (vegetarians should feel free to omit the meat in any of these flavorful favorites):
Course 1 (Monday AM and Wednesday PM)-
Panang curry paste (prepare)
Panang curry chicken
Hot & sour prawn soup (Tom Yum Goong)
Sweet & sour vegetables with chicken
Bananas in sweet coconut milk
Course 2 (Monday PM)-
Green curry paste (prepare)
Green curry chicken
Chicken in coconut milk (Tom Kha Gai)
Stir fried chicken with cashews
Mango with coconut sticky rice
Course 3 (Tuesday AM & Friday PM)-
Yellow curry paste (prepare)
Yellow curry chicken
Thai-style fried rice noodles (Pad Thai)
Stir fried chicken with basil
Steamed banana pastry
Course 4 (Tuesday PM & Friday AM)-
Red curry paste (prepare)
Red curry with chicken
Thai fried rice
Chicken satay with peanut sauce
Coconut milk custard
Course 5 (Wednesday AM)-
Massaman curry paste (prepare)
Massaman curry with chicken
Fried spring rolls
Thai fried corn & pork patties
Coconut & pandanus leaf jelly
BEST OF THAILAND SERIES:
Course 6 (Thursday AM & Saturday PM)-
Green curry paste (prepare)(Nam Prik Gaeng Kheao Wan)
Green curry with chicken and eggplant (Gaeng Kheao Wan Gai)
Thai-style fried rice noodles (Pad Thai)
Hot & sour prawn soup (Tom Yum Goong)
Coconut milk custard (Ka Nom Tuai)
Course 7 (Thursday PM & Saturday AM)–
Panang curry paste (Nam Prik Gaeng Panang)
Panang chicken (Gaeng Panang Gai)
Chicken in coconut milk (Tom Kha Gai)
Stir fried chicken with basil (Gai Pad Kra Pao)
Mango with coconut sticky rice (Khao Neaw Moon)
For those seeking a more intense cooking and cultural experience, the Academy offers chef’s courses ranging in length from 2 to 20 days, and even provides full-immersion homestay opportunities to aspiring Thai chefs and other serious foodies.
For more information on this amazing adventure, contact me at ShawnaBohnVoyage@gmail.com
(Photos courtesy of Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy)
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