Traditional Lanna Countryside Cooking Experience

About

Join our cooking class with Chef Lin, a local expert on Lanna cuisine (Northern Thai food)/ As a child, she learned her way around the kitchen by helping her mother prepare food and desserts that they sold in the local market. She started her cooking school in 2014 with her passion for cooking and sharing Lanna food with the world. 

Your host will pick you up from your hotel, then continue to a local market with numerous fruit, vegetable and meat stalls. At the market, she will introduce you to the ingredients typically used in Lanna cuisine, and which you'll use in your cooking class later. 

Then you'll head to the cooking school to Hang Dong. This is a countryside town about 20 minutes south of Chiang Mai city. On the way you will pass by the local communities surrounded by rice fields and fruit orchards that will give you a view of how locals live.

Once you've arrived, you'll be welcomed into the organic garden and open-air cooking studio. We use traditional styles of cooking with charcoal and ancient Thai cooking tools. We will cook three Lanna recipes and one dessert.

The menu will change seasonally, but may include Keng Hung Lay (Chiang Mai Curry), Sai Aao (Chiang Mai Sausage), Keng Care (local vegetable and chicken curry), Khao Soi (Chiang Mai Noodle), Tom Som Kai Bai Makham (Hot and Sour Chicken Local Soup with Tamarind Leaf) and Taam Kanoon (Jackfruit Local Salad). You can also learn how to make fresh coconut milk, fresh rice flour and sticky rice.

You get to eat everything you cook, and hot coffee, tea and water are included. A recipe book will be provided for you to take home. Then your host will take your back to your hotel.

Menu

You can choose 3 main dishes and 1 dessert. Learning how to cook sticky rice is included.

Main Dish

• Sai Oua - Chiang Mai Sausage
• Mix local vegetable curry with chicken
• Hot & sour local chicken soup with tamarind leaf
• Kaeng Hung Lay" - Chiang Mai curry
• Northern Thai red curry with Pumpkin
• Abb Pla - Grilled Fish wrap in banana leaf
• Abb Moo- Grilled minced pork wrap in banana leaf
• Tom Yam Jin Kai - Chicken northern Thai spicy soup
• Yum Nor Mai - Bamboo shoot local salad (By season)
• Khao Soi Kai - Chiang Mai noodles with chicken
• Nam Prick Noom - Green northern Thai chili dipping paste
• Nam Prick Ong - Tomato northern Thai chili dipping paste
• Kaeng Hed - Mix mushroom local curry
• Tam Kanoon - Jack fruit salad
• Larb Moo Kao - Chiang Mai minced pork spicy salad
• Tom Yum Hed - Mushroom local spicy soup
• Larb Pla: Minced fish spicy salad
• Kaeng Kanoon: Jack fruit local curry

Dessert 

• Kanom Wong
• Kanom Krok - Thai coconut pudding
• Kabong - Deep fried pumpkin
• Khao larm - Sweet sticky rice in bamboo (seasonal)
• Sweet sticky rice with Longan (seasonal)

Depending on your recipe, you may also learn how to: 

• Learn how to make fresh coconut milk 
• Learn how to make fresh rice flour

Schedule

Morning Class:

• 8:30 am: Pick up time for morning class
• 08.45 am: We will go shopping in the local market for the cooking class and learn more about new ingredients for Thai and Lanna cuisine.
• 9:30 am: Learn more about ingredients from the organic garden.
• 10:00 am: Start cooking 3 main dishes and 1 dessert. Learning how to cook sticky rice is included.
• 3:00 pm: Drop off at your hotel within 3 kms from Chiang Mai downtown

Afternoon Class:

• 3:45 pm: Pick up time for afternoon class
• 4:00 pm: We will go shopping in the local market for the cooking class and learn more about new ingredients for Thai and Lanna cuisine.
• 4:45 pm: Learn more about ingredients from the organic garden.
• 5:00 pm: Start cooking 3 main dishes and 1 dessert. Learning how to cook sticky rice is included.
• 9.00 pm: Drop off at your hotel within 3 kms from Chiang Mai downtown