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Chef Noi showing students how to stir-fry in a wok in the open-air kitchen

4.9 from 2,300 guests

Cook real Thai food with a Bangkok family

Shop at the morning market, pound your own curry paste and cook four dishes in Khun Noi’s garden kitchen. Then sit down and eat everything together.

Three classes a day

Groups of up to ten. Every class includes ingredients, an apron, a recipe book and a full meal.

Lemongrass, galangal, chillies and limes at a market stall

8:30 – 13:30

Morning class with market tour

Walk through Bang Rak market with Noi, learn the herbs, then cook four dishes.

Hands pounding green curry paste in a granite mortar

14:00 – 18:00

Afternoon curry class

Focused on curries: pound green, red or massaman paste by hand and take a jar home.

Green curry, pad thai, tom yum and mango sticky rice on a wooden table

17:30 – 21:00

Evening street-food class

The dishes from Bangkok’s food stalls, cooked in a wok over a real fire.

You choose what to cook

Pick four dishes when you book, and change your mind on the day if you like. Every dish can be made vegetarian or mild.

4 of 4 dishes chosen

Your morning, step by step

The morning class is our most popular. Here’s how it goes.

  1. Meet at Saphan Taksin BTSNoi or her son Ton waits at exit 3 with a yellow flag.
  2. Market tourTaste fruit you’ve never seen and learn to pick the right basil.
  3. Curry paste by handEveryone pounds their own paste in a granite mortar.
  4. Cook four dishesYour own wok and station, with Noi going from cook to cook.
  5. Lunch togetherEat everything you made in the garden, and take the recipe book home.

From our guests

Noi is a natural teacher and very funny. My green curry tasted better than any I had in a restaurant.

Sarah, Australia

The market tour alone was worth it. We still use the recipe book at home every week.

Kenji and Aiko, Japan

As a vegetarian I was worried, but every dish had a proper veggie version, even the fish sauce.

Lena, Germany

Book your class

Pay on the day in cash or by card. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.

WhatsApp +66 80 000 0000
cook@baankrua.co.th

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Find us

48 Charoen Krung Soi 50
Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500

Five minutes on foot from Saphan Taksin BTS, exit 3. Afternoon and evening guests come straight to the house, look for the mango tree and the green gate.