Anantara Chiang Mai Resort cooking class offers a rich and interactive immersion in Thailand’s world famous gastronomy, renowned for its artistry and unique four flavour balance of salty, sweet, spicy and pungent. Meet your master chef instructor and participate in the traditional ritual of making merit at the hotel spirit house, before travelling by three wheeler tuk-tuk for a fascinating local market tour. Return to the resort to learn about Thai and Northern Thai cuisine’s cultural significance and health benefits, indigenous ingredients and cooking equipment, as well as convenient replacements to use at home. Choose from a menu of authentic regional recipes from across Thailand, including age old northern specialties. Cook your favourites in a step by step class in the colonial house garden, and savour your creations for lunch with a glass of wine. Leave with wonderful memories and impressive new skills to entertain family and friends back home, as well as a shopping bag containing a certificate, apron, chopping board and box of recipe cards.

Or recreate the world-famous Tom Yum Goong

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Anantara Chiang Mai Resort is the riverside serenity in the heart of Chiang Mai

Take notes from a local master chef as he shares with the class the secrets of Thai cuisine

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Take your cooking class in the peaceful setting of a 100 year-old colonial house garden