10 best Chiang Mai Cookery Class with comparisons

Chiang Mai cookery class

Thai food is famous around the world for its unique flavors and ingredients, and Chiang Mai cookery class is the perfect place to learn how to make your favorite Thai dishes at home. These classes teach traditional Thai dishes with locally grown ingredients to give you a feel of being a true Thai person. There are many Chiang Mai cooking classes and schools from family-run home schools to professional institutes that offer a great experience for tourists to learn how to select, prepare ingredients and cook delicious Thai food in the traditional way.

Ticket2Attraction has compiled a list of the best Chiang Mai cookery class you should try at least once to level up your Thai-ness. Read on to embark on your culinary journey and be the second-best Gordon Ramsey.

What to know before you visit Chiang Mai cookery classes:

All of the cooking classes listed provide pickup-dropoff services mainly in Chiang Mai City area only.
All of these classes offer hand-on cooking experience
Market tours is a popular activity in taking a cooking class which involves visiting a local fish market and shop around for ingredients to prepare for your cooking. Do not be intimidated, you will be assisted by a guide that will show you how to select the best ingredients and maybe a bit of hackling. It is not a requirement to join the market tour, students can opt out of this activity.
Every cooking schools listed here provide market tours except Chiang Mai Home Host which has a garden tour to pick out the ingredients instead. For Thai Akha Kitchen, market tours are only available for morning classes.
Some schools offer photographer where you can download your photos from their websites.
For people with dietary restrictions can see below on which schools offer to adjust the menu to fit their diets.

1. Vannee Classic Cooking School

Vannee Classic Cooking School is a family run Chiang Mai cooking class that promises to give you a very homey and local feel. The instructor is incredibly lovely and guides you every step of the cooking.

Highlights:

Visit the local market and purchase fresh ingredients for cooking.
Learning and tasting some fresh home garden herbs and spices.
Cooking the traditional Thai home cooked and learning from secret recipes by Khun Vannee.

Menu: Choose 4 Thai dishes depending on each group preference.

Starting price: 950 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Half Day Authentic Lanna Thai home Cooking Classes.

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2. Chiang Mai Home Host

Chiang Mai Home Host is another Chiang Mai cookery class devoted to teaching the Northern Thailand Lanna culture and more importantly, Lanna recipe, in which you will gain knowledge on how to cook dishes indigenous to Northern Thailand.

Highlights:

Authentic Thai-Lanna style home cooking school in Chiang Mai.
Local herbs, fruits and vegetables
Learning about the Lanna locals through the 150 years old host family's background.
Cooking and tasting delicious authentic Lanna-style cuisine.
Round-trip transfer in Chiang Mai city area

Menu:

Obb Kai, Nam Prik Ong (Roasted chicken and chili dipping)
Phad Ma Khaue Yao (Fried eggplant )
Tom Som Kai (Tom Sum chicken soup)
Kluay Boud Chee (Banana coconut milk dessert)
Pad Thai (If having 4 people up in the booking)
Kanom Koke (If having children in the booking)

Starting price: 2,600 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Half Day Authentic Lanna Thai home cooking Classes

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3. Grandma's Home Cooking School

If you are passionate about gastronomy, we highly recommend taking a Chiang Mai cookery class at Grandma’s Home Cooking School offering a chance to work with fresh ingredients picked from the school’s farm.

Highlights:

Visit the local fresh market to learn about fresh herbs and vegetables for Thai cooking.
Handpicked fresh ingredients from an organic garden.
Learning cooking's techniques from grandma's recipes and taste your own result.

Menus:

Tom Yam (Hot and Sour Soup)
Kang Kiew Waan (Green Curry)
Pad Thai (Stir-fried Rice Noodles)
Gang Massaman (Massaman Curry)

Starting price: 1,040 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Full Day Thai cooking classes with Grandma's home cooking school.

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4. Mama Noi Thai - Chiang Mai Cookery Class

Been around since 2015, Mama Noi Chiang Mai cookery class incorporates organic farming and cooking to give visitors around the world a taste of true Thai. Mama Noi offers 3 different types of Chiang Mai cookery class in Chiang Mai such as the half day class, evening class, and private Chiang Mai cooking class.

Highlights:

Visit Chiang Mai marketplace and be taught how to pick fresh ingredients
Learn the differences between Issan cooking and Northern region
Learning how to make sticky rice and mango, and Thai tea

Soup
Stir fried
Curry paste
Curry

Starting price: 900 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Half Day Thai cooking classes with Mama Noi Cookery School Chiang Mai

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5. Thai Akha Kitchen - Chiang Mai cookery class

“Akha” people are a group of indigenous Thai citizens living in small villages on the mountains of Northern Thailand. Not only are visitors paying for Chiang Mai cookery classes, but they are also helping to preserve this slowly vanishing tribe and culture. Learn their way of life and listen to their story, we promise you will get a different perspective to life. The classes are taught by born and raised Akhas and are available in both online and in-person.

Highlights:

Learn the culture and cuisine of Akha people
Menu can be customized to individual's dietary requirements such as vegetarian, vegan, halal, food allergies, etc.
Ingredients come from foraging which are more organic and fresh
Local market tour to purchase ingredients (only available for morning classes)
Pickup-dropoff in Chiang Mai city area

Menu:

Appetizers
Desserts
Akha dishes
Curry
Soup
Stir fried

Starting prices: 950 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Half Day Thai cooking classes with Thai Akha Kitchen

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6. Galangal Cooking Studio

No better way to learn how to use Thai’s spices and herbs like lemongrass, turmeric and others than by taking a Chiang Mai cookery class. Galangal Cooking Studio is another highly recommended cooking class to check out once you are in Chiang Mai.

Highlights:

Learn to cook at home Thai dishes taught by passionate instructor
Take home a 40 page recipe book
Pickup-dropoff in Chiang Mai city area

Menu:

Stir fried
Soup
Curry
Appetizer
Dessert

Starting price: 890 THB

For more details and buy ticket for Half Day Thai cooking classes with Galangal Cooking Studio

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7. A lot of Thai : Home cooking class

Marking themselves as an organic based cooking school, Thai Farm Cooking School has been featured by National GeoGraphic, the Guardian, and Lonelyplanet. If you are looking for a fun farm-to-table culinary experience, we highly recommend booking a Chiang Mai cookery class with Thai Farm Cooking School if ever you’re in Chiang Mai.

Highlights:

Organic ingredients picked straight from the farms
Homemade organic lemongrass tea
Visiting local market
Pick up from hotels in downtown Chiang Mai

Menu:

Menu can be designed to be vegan, vegetarian, or non vegetarian
Curry paste, curry, soup, noodle dish, dessert

Starting price: 1,200 THB

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8. Smile Organic Farm Cooking School

Set in a beautiful serene garden, the Smile Organic Farm Cooking School aims to take visitors away to a relaxing cooking experience surrounded by greeneries where you will learn to grow herbs and vegetable as well as cook your produce.

Highlights:

Organic greens grown by the the school themselves
Small classes that is very engaging
Recipe books to take home and recreate your favorite Thai dish

Menu:

Curry Paste
Curry
Stir Fried
Soup
Spring Roll

Starting price: 800 THB

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9. Basil Cookery School

At Yummy Tasty Chiang Mai cookery class, having fun is at the forefront of learning. Whether you are joining as a couple or family, you will go home with new skills such as fire on a wok trick or peeling onions without shedding a tear. This cooking school is a great way to make new friends and great memories.

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