Chiang Mai Trip Overview
Enjoy a private and authentic garden tour and cooking class in a stunning Chiang Mai home with your host Pea. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Explore Pea’s lush vegetable and herb garden and pick fresh ingredients before heading inside to prepare a delicious meal together.Your cooking class will take place in Pea’s kitchen where she will teach you how to make an authentic Thai meal from her family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in her beautiful, traditional teak home where she lives with her son Jah. Pea started cooking when she was 12. She remembers her mom waking her up in the morning to purchase produce from the market, teaching her about the best ingredients and how freshness can influence a dish. Pea is such a good and creative cook that she can even get her sons to eat and enjoy bitter gourd, a vegetable that is renowned for people, especially children, despising!
Additional Info
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes
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What to Expect When Visiting Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Enjoy a private and authentic garden tour and cooking class in a stunning Chiang Mai home with your host Pea. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Explore Pea’s lush vegetable and herb garden and pick fresh ingredients before heading inside to prepare a delicious meal together.Your cooking class will take place in Pea’s kitchen where she will teach you how to make an authentic Thai meal from her family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in her beautiful, traditional teak home where she lives with her son Jah. Pea started cooking when she was 12. She remembers her mom waking her up in the morning to purchase produce from the market, teaching her about the best ingredients and how freshness can influence a dish. Pea is such a good and creative cook that she can even get her sons to eat and enjoy bitter gourd, a vegetable that is renowned for people, especially children, despising!
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. After being picked up from your hotel you will be taken to a traditional Chiang Mai home with a magnificent garden. Your host Pea started to cook when she was 12, waking up early in the morning with her mother to do the family shopping in order to select the best ingredients. She’ll help you do the same in her garden as you pick fresh lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves before you head to her kitchen to chop, pound and grind as you learn to make an authentic Thai meal from scratch. Sitting around the table that your chef designed to teach her sons how to cook, you will enjoy the delicious, authentic meal you helped prepare.
Begin your meal with an appetizer like Miang kham (a local snack of fresh betel leaves with lime, coconut, and peanuts). Your menu includes dishes such as beef noodle soup, kaeng khiao wan (chicken green curry), kai kraphrao khai dao (stir fried chicken with holy basil) and rice noodles. At the end of your meal together, you will enjoy refreshing coconut ice cream or mango sticky rice (when in season) for dessert, before being driven back to your hotel. Depart with new recipes, a new friend and lifelong memories.
