Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Organic Farm in Chiang Mai
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Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Organic Farm in Chiang Mai
By Smile Organic Farm Cooking School
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Ages 0-75, max of 12 per group
Duration: 6h
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Live guide: English
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- Air-conditioned vehicle
- All ingredients for cooking class
- E-book for all recipes
- Photo album on our Facebook page
- Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.Pickup details
- Pickup time is between 8:00-8:30am for morning course and 3:00-3:30pm for evening course. We pick you up at your hotel/accommodation within 3 kilometers radius of Chiang Mai Old City. Please inform us of your hotel name and address in advance.
Hotel pickup offeredDuring checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.End:This activity ends back at the meeting point. - Not wheelchair accessible
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 345511P1- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travellers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 345511P1
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- tamarb2370 contributions#teamlizzy foreverLizzy is awesome, very funny and nice and we learned a lot! Everyone cooked what they chose and the food was amazing! Highly recommended, best experience ❤️Written 12 September 2024
- Companion012580822310 contributionsBest cooking class in Chiang Mai!A great day in Smile Organic Farm! We cooked curries, noodles, salads, soups and sticky rice! Lizzy was amazing and so helpful, a great day!Written 11 September 2024
- BackPacker6365350 contributionsGreat experience in Chian MaiSuch a great tour. Super helpful to be collected right from your door and brought to the market and to the farm. Lizzy was super helpful and answered any questions that we had. Learnt so much and made delicious food.Written 11 September 2024
- 940sadhbhn0 contributionsMust do experience in Chiang MaiAmazing tour all day. Free e book provided on all recipes provided and photos taken. Great experience and activity with friends and great tasty food !!Written 11 September 2024
- K2691NKnataliec0 contributionsFun and informativeJulie and the team were amazing. The food was of such a high standard and the there was a lot of good background information provided to the dishes. I would really recommend this if you are visiting Chiang Mai. Just make you're you don't have breakfast!!!Written 6 September 2024
- Simon C0 contributionsCooking schoolGreat day, Julie was very knowledgeable. A lot of food - skip breakfast before coming. Nothing difficult to cook or prepare.Written 6 September 2024
- Gaja P0 contributionsAmazing SmileAmazing experience all together. Our teacher Smile was amazing, explained everything, was super entertaining and took time for each of us. Amazing activity to meet a lot of lovely people and share your experiences over delicious food.Written 4 September 2024
- A6290IUjackt0 contributionsSmile Organic!!A wonderful cooking experience with a local market visit and garden tour. Cici was a fiery instructor who led a very fun class!Written 2 September 2024
- U5746UVjacobm0 contributionsFood and friendsCici was great! The day was super fun and the food was great. Highly recommend for anyone in the area looking for a fun activity.Written 2 September 2024
- diamondw1570 contributionsWonderful Cooking ClassI had so much fun here with my mother. I went for my birthday. And the food is excellent! Restaurant quality. Nattiya is an amazing instructor and very friendly.Written 31 August 2024
- marianapU6570HM0 contributionsAmaizingIt was an amaizing experience with Nina!! She is really clear when explain and so lovely The food was amaizing, really tastyWritten 30 August 2024
- sebr8240 contributionsAmazing!Amazing morning with Natty! She was very knowledgable with every dish we wanted to cook. We did a half day cooking & we made three separate dishes (which we were able to eat there and then)! Would 100% recommend and really grateful we got to experience this on our honeymoon. Thanks again!Written 29 August 2024
- 579janaer0 contributionsTeam Julie made our tummy's happy!!We had so much fun in this class! I would recommend to anyone visiting Chiang Mai. Our instructor Julie was the best! We had so much delicious food. We even had leftovers to take with us. The variety of dishes and courses was incredible.Written 28 August 2024
- mushielle0 contributionsGreat experience and family oriented funAwesome! Fun and Team Julie 💓 was amazing. It was our first time and she made it easy and exciting. We loved the experience and can't wait until our kids are big enough to join us. Great family activity for kids mature enough to use a stove and knife!Written 28 August 2024
- leoniel4430 contributionsTeam Julie! :DWe had a great time at Smile Cooking School! Julie made the cooking great fun and shared a lot of knowledge about the recipes and ingredients with us. Also the farm garden was beautiful!Written 28 August 2024
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Fenne
Amsterdam, The Netherlands10 contributions
May 2022 • Friends
Together with one friend, we did the evening cooking class and we loved it! We made a maincourse, a curry and a soup. You can choose between 4 really nice options with every meal. So you don’t have to make the same as your friend for example. The location of the school is a 45 minutes drive from city, you’re gonna be picked up from and dropped off at your hotel, that’s inclusive. On the way you stop at a local market, where your chef will explain some useful things about the products they have there. I liked the farm where the school was very much, its in the middle of the nature and they have their owns ingredients in the garden. You can walk through it by your own and later as well with your chef and you will hear funny and interesting things about the vegetables, fruits and spices; most of them you’re gonna use with cooking. Our chef Tay was really nice and funny and spoke good English! She explained everything very well. In the end, you will receive a little book with all the recipes, so you don’t have to remember anything or need to write something down. If you can not eat all the food you made, you can bring it home, since it’s a lot to eat in once. ;) After all, I would definitely recommend this amazing experience when you visit Chiangmai!
Written 25 May 2022
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grtflyin
Fort Lauderdale, FL76 contributions
As a lover of Thai food this was a great experience to get to know more about the ingredients and flavours that go into the dishes.
Our chef Natty was awesome. She was patient, funny and very informative. From a short stop at a local market to highlight the difference between ‘packet curry paste’ and the real deal to a guide through their small garden where she explained and let us smell and feel the different ingredients we then got to choose what we wanted to prepare. It was a fun experience and the food we prepared tasted great.
It’s very well organised even though we were one of three groups of 12 people.
Reviewing some other comments it’s not a culinary school folks !
It’s a fun way to learn more about Thai food and get a chance to cook your own dishes.
Great value for the money and Natty made it a fantastic afternoon/evening activity.
Highly recommend !
Our chef Natty was awesome. She was patient, funny and very informative. From a short stop at a local market to highlight the difference between ‘packet curry paste’ and the real deal to a guide through their small garden where she explained and let us smell and feel the different ingredients we then got to choose what we wanted to prepare. It was a fun experience and the food we prepared tasted great.
It’s very well organised even though we were one of three groups of 12 people.
Reviewing some other comments it’s not a culinary school folks !
It’s a fun way to learn more about Thai food and get a chance to cook your own dishes.
Great value for the money and Natty made it a fantastic afternoon/evening activity.
Highly recommend !
Written 5 February 2023
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John S
4 contributions
Jul 2022 • Friends
Wow! A must do experience. A really solid price given that you make 5 dishes (super filling almost didn’t finish). The Chefs are super attentive and knowledgeable and give everyone the right amount of attention. A special shout out to Tay for creating such a warm environment!
Written 5 July 2022
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Jake S
7 contributions
Jun 2022 • Friends
Kiki was our instructor and and she was very clear, very helpful and very entertaining. I cooked 3 delicious meals that I can take home
To show my family where as before I could only cook eggs and bacon and maybe toast. 10/10 experience and would highly recommend if you want to; cook, laugh and taste some delicious food. AROY MAAK!!
To show my family where as before I could only cook eggs and bacon and maybe toast. 10/10 experience and would highly recommend if you want to; cook, laugh and taste some delicious food. AROY MAAK!!
Written 3 June 2022
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Robert Vass
Budapest, Hungary5 contributions
Pick-up at hotel was as scheduled, first we visited a local market where Sisi, the group leader, told us which ingredient is used in what dish and we had some time for shopping for breakfast, not the cooking experience. After another 30 minute minibus ride we arrived at the farm where Sisi showed us the veggies grown in the garden. Our group was 12 people and there were 3 other groups on-site. It is a much larger compound than expected so there is enough space for 4 groups of 12 but takes away the charm of a homely cooking class. We could choose which curry, soup and main dish to cook, as well as a veggie spring roll which was not optional. All ingredients were prepared for us for each dish. We cooked the spring roll appetizers first together, then everyone their own main dish, ate it and during that time the staff prepared the next set of ingredients for us, it was really well managed. We cooked the curry and the soup but it was way too much so we took home the rest. The recipes are easy to follow, some ingredients might be difficult to get by in Europe when you will try to cook at home. It was a bit shorter than expected, the bus picked us up at 7:30, we started cooking at 10 and were done by 2pm. We arrived home at 3pm. Sisi was a great group leader and cook, helped with everything. Definitely recommended.
Written 23 November 2022
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Molly Moses
3 contributions
Jan 2024 • Friends
Our group leader yo made us feel very welcome, he had a great sense of humour and made us feel very included. Our class was very and interactive and informative. The value for money was very very good would really recommend, they were very accommodating to my friends nut allergy's and explained well what they could or couldn't have. They also accommodate for vegetarians and for gluten free needs. We had 3 meals plus spring rolls, all of which were big portions, they gave you the option to take away your food after cooking it if you didn't want to eat it there with the group. We also went to a local market and got a tour of their organic gardens. This was a great afternoon!
Written 22 January 2024
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Traveler37336502044
25 contributions
This experience was well worth the money! (Not a lot at all). For 900•- we got picked up from our hotel (50mins away) taken to a local market where Tay (our tour guide) took us around and explained different ingredients and products. She then gave us time to look around independently and buy and products for ourself.
We then got back in the taxi (and met some great people who live 10 minutes away from us), there was 2 groups taken to the cooking area (about 40 people in total during quiet season). Tay sat us down and gave us some information of the different meal we could choose to cook (4 in total). She then made a note of what everyone wanted to cook, you can choose a different meal to your party but if you want to cook next to each other choose the same.
We then walked around the garden and she explained all the different ingredients that we will be using and let us try them. We then returned to the cooking area and began to cook the different dishes.
The experience was very hygienic and Tay explained everything fully before we were set to cook. There was water, tea and coffee as refreshments and we could fry our dishes as we went along through the day.
I would recommend that the half a day experience is more than enough as cooking become tiring in the heat and we were ready for home at the end. The full day just includes a salad and a desert more than the half day experience would.
An amazing day and definitely worth doing for couples, friends and solo travellers.
We then got back in the taxi (and met some great people who live 10 minutes away from us), there was 2 groups taken to the cooking area (about 40 people in total during quiet season). Tay sat us down and gave us some information of the different meal we could choose to cook (4 in total). She then made a note of what everyone wanted to cook, you can choose a different meal to your party but if you want to cook next to each other choose the same.
We then walked around the garden and she explained all the different ingredients that we will be using and let us try them. We then returned to the cooking area and began to cook the different dishes.
The experience was very hygienic and Tay explained everything fully before we were set to cook. There was water, tea and coffee as refreshments and we could fry our dishes as we went along through the day.
I would recommend that the half a day experience is more than enough as cooking become tiring in the heat and we were ready for home at the end. The full day just includes a salad and a desert more than the half day experience would.
An amazing day and definitely worth doing for couples, friends and solo travellers.
Written 22 August 2022
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Emilia K
4 contributions
Nov 2022 • Friends
The class was absolutely amazing! Lily picked us up from the hotel in the morning, we went to a very nice and cheap market outside of Chiang Mai city center, she showed us everything and recommended best spices and curry paste. We didn’t have to buy anything because all the ingredients were waiting for us at the farm. Then the cooking class started, we could smell all the herbs from the garden and learn about the sauces and spices. Lily was incredibly cool and funny. She made the experience a real pleasure!
#teamLily
#teamLily
Written 1 November 2022
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chrisd902015
London, United Kingdom4 contributions
Oct 2022 • Couples
Great experience with an excellent guide, Kiki, who gave us a tour round a local market explaining about the various vegetables and ingredients that go in to the dishes we would be making. We then got to work and Kiki was extremely helpful in guiding a group of 12 of us (cooking up to 5 different dishes between us!) to make 3 separate dishes and a spring roll. My other half is a very basic cook but managed to make all dishes with Kiki’s guidance.
Great fun and good value for money - recommend doing this tour whilst in Chiang Mai!
Great fun and good value for money - recommend doing this tour whilst in Chiang Mai!
Written 10 October 2022
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GeorgiaElise3
28 contributions
Sept 2022 • Couples
Our evening at Smile Organic Farm was amazing. Our chef guide, Lily, picked us up from the hotel and was super smiley and informative throughout.
We first stopped at a food market just out of the city, to learn all about buying the local ingredients - you then have 10 minutes to explore the market yourself.
It’s then a 30 minute drive to the farm which is beautiful! All home grown herbs and vegetables. You get to walk around the farm whilst Lily explains all about the different flavours and smells (passing them around to smell and taste ourselves).
You get so much choice for your cooking, it isn’t just one meal for everyone. You can all be cooking something different and although I’m not a vegetarian there were alternatives for the two people in our class who were.
Overall learning about the ingredients and choosing your preferred options, making it the way you like it (heat preference etc) all come together to make it a really fun experience. It is was also a great chance to meet fellow travellers and make some new friends. 100% recommend this cooking class and #TeamLily.
We first stopped at a food market just out of the city, to learn all about buying the local ingredients - you then have 10 minutes to explore the market yourself.
It’s then a 30 minute drive to the farm which is beautiful! All home grown herbs and vegetables. You get to walk around the farm whilst Lily explains all about the different flavours and smells (passing them around to smell and taste ourselves).
You get so much choice for your cooking, it isn’t just one meal for everyone. You can all be cooking something different and although I’m not a vegetarian there were alternatives for the two people in our class who were.
Overall learning about the ingredients and choosing your preferred options, making it the way you like it (heat preference etc) all come together to make it a really fun experience. It is was also a great chance to meet fellow travellers and make some new friends. 100% recommend this cooking class and #TeamLily.
Written 30 September 2022
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jenny
Lafayette, Louisiana
Hello, is it possible to reserve a spot and pay in baht upon arrival?
Written 22 May 2024
Hello there,
I am just wondering if gluten free is easily catered for?
Written 28 March 2024
Hi, before start the chef asks for any allergies or vegetarian options, so I believe gluten free should be an option also
Written 30 March 2024
We made the spring rolls as a group and then we picked a main that we cooked individually with the matching paste. There may have been a soup too but I cannot remember.
I would really recommend going, it was a great experience!
Written 25 November 2022
What time are will we be back at our hostel (baan ploy) if we take the morning course tomorrow? Since we have a train to catch
Written 10 May 2022
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