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• Blue Elephant Cooking School and
  Restaurant
  This school was set up by Chef Nooror
  and her husband, who both set up the
  popular Blue Elephant restaurants in
  Europe. The duo decided to open the Blue
  Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant
  in hopes of developing and training chefs
  to understand Royal Thai cuisine. Classes
  here involve a trip to a local market
  to learn more about local ingredients
  before a head chef conducts cooking
  demonstrations back in the kitchen.
  Guests will then be able to try their hand
  at preparing the dishes they’ve learnt just
  minutes ago as well. The popularity of
  the school in Bangkok spurred the couple
  to open a second school in Phuket as
  well, which specialises in Baba Phuket

Thailand

on the deviant path

Thai cooking classes

The piquant and aromatic traits of

Thai cuisine are well loved all over

the world. Its notable use of spice,

fish sauce, kaffir limes and sugar

cover a full spectrum of taste on

the tongue that whets appetites

and gets diners reaching for more.

This explosion of flavour might

seem complex but the keys to good

Thai cooking are easier than you

think. For return visitors to Thailand,

signing up for a Thai cooking class

might just be the activity needed to

inject a renewed love for the country.

Been there and done that? It may seem so with the same itineraries to

Thailand planned over and over again but there’s more than just

shopping, food and temples to this Southeast Asian kingdom. We’ve

scored across the country to handpick the best of what Thailand has to

offer in this handy guide:

cuisine – Thai food influenced by the Thai

Peranakans in the area.

blueelephantcookingschool.com

• Silom Thai Cooking School
  The classes here follow a similar format
  to that of Blue Elephant but the emphasis
  is placed more on creating the dishes
  from scratch so that travellers can take
  home the recipe and add them to their
  repertoire. There are seven courses to
  choose from that cover a diverse variety of
  familiar Thai dishes and the basics of Thai
  cooking. For those with a keen interest in
  cooking, the school also has an intensive
  seven-day course where students would
  have learnt a total of 40 recipes by the
  end of the week.
  bangkokthaicooking.com

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