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Phuket Thai Cooking Class: Choose 4 Dishes, Market Tour & Pickup
About this experience
Unlike many cooking classes with a fixed menu, each guest chooses their own 4 Thai dishes from a wide selection of recipes. Visit a local fresh market with your chef, then cook each dish yourself at an individual cooking station with step-by-step instruction. Friends, couples, and family members can choose different dishes, making the experience easy to personalize. The class includes ingredients, cooking equipment, market tour, your 4-dish meal, digital recipes, and round-trip hotel transportation from selected Phuket areas.
What to expect
Enjoy a hands-on Thai cooking class in Phuket where you choose your own 4 dishes and prepare each one with step-by-step guidance from professional Thai chefs. Start with hotel pickup and a guided visit to a local fresh market, where your chef introduces Thai herbs, spices, vegetables, sauces, curry ingredients, and fresh produce. Then continue to Phuket Thai Cooking Academy. Each fully paying participant has an individual cooking station with all ingredients and equipment provided. Choose 4 dishes from Thai favorites such as Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong, Som Tam, green curry, Massaman curry, chicken with cashew nuts, mango sticky rice, and more. Each guest can choose different dishes, so couples, friends, and family members do not need to cook the same menu. Your chef demonstrates each recipe before guiding you through preparation, stir-frying, curry cooking, seasoning, and balancing traditional Thai flavors. After cooking, enjoy the meal you prepared and receive access to our digital Thai recipe collection. No previous cooking experience is required. Vegetarian and vegan menus are available, with gluten-free sauces and halal ingredients available with advance notice.
What’s included
- Individual cooking station for each fully paying participant
- All ingredients, cooking equipment, and preparation
- Choose your own 4 dishes from a wide menu
- Digital Thai recipes
- Hands-on Thai cooking class with professional local chefs
- Hotel pickup and drop-off from select areas
- Air-conditioned transportation
- Guided local market tour (included with every class)
Not included
- Transportation surcharge for 1–2 guests staying outside the free pickup area
- Gratuities
Tour & ticket options
Options may have different inclusions and meeting points. Choose your option when booking on Viator.
Free transportation
Choose your own menu. Pickup included
Meeting & pickup
- Please be ready in your hotel lobby for your scheduled pickup time. If you are meeting us directly at the market: • Morning Market: Meet at the main entrance near the fruit vendors • Afternoon Market: Meet at the main parking area at the back of the market Our team will be there to greet you.
End point
- Please be ready in your hotel lobby for your scheduled pickup time. If you are meeting us directly at the market: • Morning Market: Meet at the main entrance near the fruit vendors • Afternoon Market: Meet at the main parking area at the back of the market Our team will be there to greet you.
Hotel pickups commence approximately 30 - 60 minutes prior to this time
Before you go
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Please choose the 4 dishes you wish to be taught during your class
- Advise which class time you would like (9am or 1:30pm)
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Please advise us of any allergies or dietary requirements when booking.
- Children ages 4–12 may participate by sharing a cooking station with a fully paying adult. Children age 3 and younger cannot participate in group classes.
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.