Our Haadlad Prestige Resort & Spa Thai Cooking Classes offers hands-on learning in cooking flavorful Thai food the authentic way. Spend a morning or afternoon with our highly trained chefs to learn how to make authentic Thai food at our custom designed kitchen.
Each course features an overview on how to artfully combine the most important flavors used to make traditional Thai food, and easy-to-understand instructions from Thai family recipes will help you make a stunning Thai meal for your family and freinds at home.
Students receive a recipe booklet, and an illustrated Thai ingredients glossary so they can identify Thai ingredients at the market, student also receive a guide to specialty Thai markets and Internet resources in their home country so they can order the ingredients to cook delicious Thai food at home the easy way!
The Haadlad Prestige Resort & Spa Thai Cooking Classes are designed for the adventurous amateur cook or professional chef who wants to get a broad overview of the pungent and tantalizing tastes of Thai Cooking.

WHAT YOU GET AT THE COOKING CLASSES

• Hands-on instruction on Thai cooking where you make and taste your own Thai food. Each student has a wok and cooking ring on which they learn Thai cooking techniques and secrets. We generally make three to four dishes during each class using fresh, seasonal ingredients.
• Three-hour overview of Thai cooking, including how to combine the individually pungent flavors of Thai cooking to make a balanced and tasty meal. Students receive a market tour at the cooking school to explain the individual ingredients of Thai cooking and how they are used.
• An overview of the breadth of cooking styles in Thailand's four major regions (South, Central, North and Northeastern). The class gives an overview of these different styles to illustrate the great breadth of Thai cooking.
• Easy-to-understand recipes and a color glossary to take home with detailed explanation on preparation and presentation.
• List of Thai ingredient stores and websites in your home country for purchasing Thai ingredients.

BACKGROUND ON CHEF TUMMY

Chef Tummy traveled almost 6,000 miles by motorcycle during a yearlong trip to taste regional Thai cooking from the real experts the cooks and grandmothers who considered him worthy enough to share their family recipes. Recipes collected during the trip are emphasized in the cooking school. The Thai travel adventure and recipe book Chef Tummy wrote entitled Tasting Thai Food will be published in 2008.

Chef Tummy attended Thai cooking classes at the Oriental Hotel Cooking School in Bangkok, the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School in Chiang Mai and the SITCA Cooking School's Professional Chef Course on Ko Samui. Chef Tummy has served in several apprenticeships with noted regional Thai chefs on Ko PhaNgan, as well as Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Isaan.

Prior relocating to Thailand, Chef Tummy worked in catering with his family in Boston, USA and attended the California Culinary Academy Cordon Bleu School in San Francisco. Chef Tummy studied food and wine pairing at the Pacific Rim Wine School in San Francisco. His world travels included extensive cooking apprenticeships in France, Greece, Japan and Taiwan.