Thai Cooking Class with Market Visit by Maliwan

Great experience!

Small class, tasty recipes and a great instructor! The recipes were super easy and I’ll definitely be making them again!

Memorable day in Bangkok

My husband and I really enjoyed the cooking class. It has been one of the highlights of our trip! Our instructor was a great teacher. The trip to the market in the tuk tuk was fun and informative! I’d take this class angain and again!

Fantastic class

A wonderful afternoon spent visiting a local market and learning to cook 4 different dishes plus a curry paste from scratch. Mae was very informative about ingredients and techniques and her English is impeccable. We then had the opportunity to sit and eat our finished dishes. Communication via email was very responsive. It is not the easiest place to find, tucked away in an alleyway but directions were spot on. Don’t bother to eat before, there was so much food!

Fantastic hands-on cooking experience!

We loved this experience! We really enjoyed meeting the two other couples and it was very informative, organised, hygienic, efficient and DELICIOUS! Mai our teacher knows her stuff and it was great hands on learning experience. Kudos to her assistants as well! Highly recommend!!

Great Introduction to Thai Cooking

What a wonderful experience. The market experience was so enjoyable. Individually cooking our meals was such a great experience and really created an excitement in me to cook more Thai meals. Thank you for a great experience!

An unforgettable Bangkok experience

This is one of the best cooking classes I’ve taken, and was certainly the best one in terms of value. Mae was a great teacher and the food turned out ridiculously good. We went to the market where she explained what everything was and we got all the ingredients.

Would surely do it again!

Very nice experience, friendly guide and delicious recipes! The market experience was unique and the guide took her time to give us all the important information for the recipes and their everyday life (and cooking)

Very Nice / +65-year Old Couple

Nice experience overall - It was fun visiting the Food Market and the staff at Maliwan's was great - The whole day was great - Thank you`

Best Cooking Experience in Thailand

I went to Bangkok as part of an international study tour. 5 of us booked this cooking class in hopes to learn more about Thai cooking and culture and it did not disappoint! We cooked 4 delicious dishes including green curry, coconut soup, mango sticky rice and pad Thai and it was so beautiful! We get to watch the cook make it first and they help you every step of the way. It’s a small place in Bangkok but it’s so intimate and lively and very worth the money! Would 100% recommend, this experience has made me want to take cooking classes no matter where I visit! My mango sticky rice photo has candles in it because it was my birthday the day we went and she was so lovely she sang happy birthday for me ❤️

Great experience and delicious food

Great afternoon with Mae. Market visit by Tuk Tuk was really interesting, learning about the different ingredients, although the live fish on display is not for the faint hearted. The cooking was great, most of the ingredients were already prepped so just needed to cook. We made 3 classic thai dishes and Mae demonstrated making sticky rice with mango. We ate the food after and it was absolutely delicious even though I do say so myself! We were able to take some away with us as some of our party weren't able to come with us. It's not so hard to find either if you follow the instructions in the email. Great 1/2 day would definitely recommend.

An excellent cooking class experience

This was such an amazing class. Getting to see the market first, then getting to cook the ingredients we helped buy was so cool. The recipes were super simple for us, but the flavors were incredibly complex. Everything we got to make was so good.

Great half day experience

Great half day activity in Bangkok. Made to feel very welcome by everyone, interesting market visit, great dishes to cook and eat. Highly recommend.

Authentic way to experience Bangkok

This was such a fun activity and an authentic way to experience Bangkok. A Tuk tuk ride & visit to the market followed by cooking so much lovely Thai food! Staff were all so lovely. We loved this!!

Great experience

We’ll organized and cool. People are very friendly and food is great. Visit to the market is great and back in the class we had all the conditions for cooking

A great way to sample the food of Greece!

Our guide Irene was totally wonderful- informative, funny, and sarcastic. We had an incredibly wide variety of food and drink, tasting spanakopita variations, a fabulous mezze spread of plates, Greek coffee heated in sand, wines, yogurt, balsamic vinegars, olives, and so much more. Take this tour early in your Athens trip!

Yummy food & great instructor

The Maliwan cooking school was so awesome. We felt really taken care of from the beginning. Our instructor put us in a Tuk-tuk and off we went to the market. She is very knowledgeable about the items there. We cooked great tasting food and at the end we got a certificate. Yay!

Best cooking class

Fantastic cooking class, best one I’ve ever done. The market visit was great and the dishes we made were delicious. Would definitely recommend!

Must try for ppl who love to cool exclusive!!

Going to the market to shop for the ingredients and the conversations that I had with Mae… she was simply awesome and very helpful!!! Had a wonderful time learning some Thai delicacies…

Cooking with heart

I booked the early morning cooking class and ended up being the only student, which was a happy accident. My instructor took me to the market to learn about the ingredients, which was a fascinating experience. Then we went back to the kitchen to cook a delicious feast. I'm a beginner cook, but the instructions were easy to follow and the food turned out amazing! I highly recommend this class to anyone visiting Bangkok. You'll learn to make Pad Thai and other Thai dishes so well that you won't need to eat out anymore! :-)

Recommend!

Sunday October morning - After eating a leisurely breakfast, we allotted an hour to make our way across the bridge. Google maps directed us through the street market and then to a closed port to take a boat to the other side. This caused massive anxiety. After some walking back and forth we finally took a taxi over. The instructions were great; they all led to the same place. - Mai was our instructor. She was so lovely. She took us to the local marketplace, directed our attention to the different varieties of herbs and fruits and seafood, and made the whole session very educational. She taught us on the fly about the Grab app and bridge crossings as well. - Back at the school, we got to hang out at the top level in the AC and enjoy the complimentary Wi-Fi while Mai and another lady prepped our ingredients. - We made the following: Yellow curry, tom kha, mango sticky rice, pad Thai. Mai demonstrated once and then let us loose. She let us try her dishes; they were so delicious. Then I went and made my yellow curry too sweet. My Tom kha was perfect; who knew the galangal and kaffir leaves made such a difference. I loved the sticky rice. And normally I am not a pad thai person- too ketchupy- but here it was quite good. - We got to enjoy our meal upstairs in the AC, but it was quite a bit of food. We were given bags to take our food home. - Lovely class, lovely instructor. Highly recommend!

Amazing Experience!

Booked the early morning session. Ended up being a solo class by accident which worked out for me. Was amazing to be taken through the market and learn about the ingredients. Afterwards, I was taken back to the kitchen to cook up a feast. I’m a beginner level cook but felt like it was easy enough to follow along and the food tasted amazing! Highly recommend anyone in Bangkok to go through this class - you won’t be spending any money on Pad Thai’s when you can whip one up easily.

Fantastic and brilliant value for money !!!

So much packed in, brilliant value and very interesting and informative. Also nice small group only 5 of us ! Our instructor may was amazing, we started the day by taking a tuktuk ride to the local market which was all also included in the price ! Then May walked us through all the different stalls describing ingredients and answering any questions we had. Once we got a ride back and started cooking the classes were fabulous so efficient quick and easy recipes but so delicious. We also received certs at the end!! I couldn’t recommend this more such brilliant value for money !

Perfect Thai Market and Cooking experience for all types

Had an amazing time during the experience. Went to the market and talked through all the different herbs, vegetables and miscellaneous items there. She has a huge base of knowledge and perfect English so there is no issues with communication if that's a worry. Cooking was such fun getting to do a bit of prep work but also use the wok ourselves. It was all so well prepared for all levels of cook and I came out more than happy with the day.

Good food, good guide!

Made the recipes quick and easy, did all of the prep work beforehand. Enjoyed looking through the market and the food we made was very good(we liked being able to customize the balance of the dish to our own tastes a little bit). Very nice guide!

Master cooking class

Awesome experience.. great knowledge of the local food from the markets to the kitchen itself. Totally recommend for anyone wanting to cook from scratch rather than from a packet.

Great and fun cooking class

Absolutely great cooking class from start to finish! We loved the market experience (including the tuk-tuk transfer) where we could choose fresh products and learn about the fruit and vegetables from Mae. The cooking station is very well equipped and the staff was super helpful with the ingredients and cleaning. Mae is a great teacher, explaining every step in detail and offering alternatives to ingredients etc, her English is impeccable. We had a lovely time with our small group (4 people in total). At the end, we loved the break where we could enjoy the meals we prepared- we recommend brining Tupperware as there were leftovers!

A wonderful start to our Bangkok adventures

My friend and I had a wonderful experience. Cooking is a lot more fun when someone partitions all the ingredients for you and, most importantly, takes care of all the clean up. I'm not a very good cook but our instructor Mae was very good at noticing when we were on the verge of making a mistake and coming over to nudge us on the right path. You don't take leftovers home, which is a pity because we were very full but there was a lot of food leftover (I think my friend and I honestly could have shared the 4 dishes we prepared instead of each making our own). The instructor will demonstrate how to cook the dish first and then give you a little saucer so you can sample how it's supposed to taste. Mae's pad thai was the best that we had in Thailand (beter than Thipsamai...) but very sadly we did not get more than just that little saucerful (I still long for that pad thai...) We made shrimp pad thai, papaya salad, massaman curry, and cashew chicken. The massaman curry was delicious and it was very fun to grind all the spices into a paste, but I can't see myself making this at home (given the difficulty of procuring these specific ingredients). I also didn't realize how much sugar goes into making pad thai - I skimped on the recommended amount and my pad thai didn't taste as good as my friend's (or of course, the instructor's). Also, it was horrifically hot but the other people in the kitchen provided us with a steady supply of water while we were cooking. The team definitely took care to do little things to make our experience better. Just a few notes - Bangkok was terribly hot and there was air conditioning in the kitchen, but not a lot and I was melting. This is not Maliwan's fault, but just something that I didn't consider while booking the class from my very cold home base. Also, Maliwan booked us Tuk-tuks to and from the market, which are fun but may come as an unpleasant surprise if you're scared of riding Tuk-tuks.

A wonderful experience to cook authentic Thai!

It was a really fun experience and I learned some basic techniques. I would do it again! The instructor was very helpful.

Cooking class

This cooking class was amazing. We have done multiple classes in other countries during our travels but this class was the most organized and well thought out of them all. Everything runs smoothly!

Awesome experience

We met with the chef and received our recipes then headed to the market. We learned about the ingredients in our recipes while the chef purchased what we needed. We headed back to the kitchen and everyone was able to make each recipe. Incredible experience and learned a lot about Thai cooking. This was our best experience in Bangkok!

Amazing, unforgettable experience!!!

Amazing time, from the very first minute at the wet market while getting all ingredients to the moment we all shared the cooked dishes!!! Will do it again on my next visit to Bangkok

Best Part of Bangkok

Excellent experience! Going through the market May showed us all different ingredients and how they could be used, not just the ones we were using that day. Then the class was fun and I learned so much to take back home. I can't wait to show off what May taught us. The highlight of my trip to Bangkok

Great well organized experience

The class was a lot of fun! Well organized. We got through a lot of dishes in quick time, learned a lot, and enjoyed a delicious meal!!

Personalized attention

Amazing experience. It’s set up for small class sizes which makes it more personal. The trip to the market is enjoyable.

SIGN UP RIGHT NOW!

This was the best experience and will ruin all other Thai food you’ve ever had because what you make is SO MUCH BETTER! We had wonderful people in our group and the staff was absolutely amazing and kind. This is a must if you cook at home/are with a partner of any kind.

Excellent experience that gave us a taste of what it's like to cook Thai street classics

Phenomenal experience. I missed the market tour because of extreme traffic, and it was still worth the money. We made four dishes, including pad thai, green curry, red curry, and mango rice, from mostly-scratch. Also met great people and fellow travel-chefs-in-training! The kitchen area and facility were extremely clean, and the host and supporting staff were friendly and welcoming. Highly recommend this for anyone visiting Bangkok.

We loved it, so tasty!!

Overall it was great!! Just a few things to iron out. The market visit was lovely, not too crazy or overwhelming and it was fun to have someone guide us through and explain everything. The kitchen was well set up, everything was prepped when we arrived and they took care of all of the clean up. The food turned out amazing, we were shocked we were able to make such delicious food! The air conditioned room to eat and flowing water was also much appreciated. We had difficulty finding the place as it is tucked into the end of a back alley and couldn’t find specific directions from their main website. It would have been nice if on their website they had very explicit directions with pictures. There was also no air conditioning in the kitchen, just a small fan, so be prepared to sweat while you cook especially if you’re by the window. We also wish there had been more general announcements as a few times we were not sure what we should do. Such as telling us to take our shoes off, offering the slide on sandals, telling us where to leave our belongings, explaining that we will cook all the meals then eat everything at the end, at the end after we finished eating we didn’t know if we should wait for them to say closing remarks or if we should get up when we finished. Little things but especially with language barrier and our group being from all different countries it would have been nice to have more concrete directions and expectations. Overall, we had a wonderful time and would give the tour 9/10!!!

A cooking class to be remembered!

What a wonderful way to spend a half day; shopping for the foods we will cook in class and then eating the delicious meals Chef May has shown us how to prepare!! I was so impressed with the first class I took a second class later in the week and had one of my travel partners join in the experience. May is a wonderful and informative chef/teacher. She takes time at the market to show not only the foods we will be preparing later in the class but foods we might not otherwise see anywhere else in our travels. I learned a lot and had a blast doing so. Thanks May!!

Excellent!

Extremely well organised half day cooking class. We loved the well chosen market, the kitchen which was impeccably clean with a view of a temple and our teacher, Mai, gave very clear explanations. We learnt the techniques to make a curry paste, stir fry, pad Thai and sticky rice. We have always enjoyed cooking Asian recipes but this has helped us learn the authentic ingredients and methods. We recommend it 100%

Fun and delicious cooking class

May the teacher was so kind and had so much information on ingredients from the market. We loved the whole experience, definitely a highlight of our trip. The food from her recipes was the best we've had in Thailand since we've been here! She made the cooking easy and explained how to change up the dishes to your own taste. Can't wait to get home and make these dishes on our own 10/10 would recommend this class.

Great Thai food experience

It was a great experience that combined hands-on cooking instruction in authentic Thai cuisine with a stroll through a street market with all it’s sights and smells. Out instructor, May (Mei?), was knowledgeable and friendly. She had us do all of the cooking after a demonstration of each dish: we did not simply watch the instructor cook. After the meal we all (class attendees) ate our dishes together. Even my husband enjoyed himself and he doesn’t like to cook. If you want great exposure to the local sourcing of ingredients, preparation, cooking and eating of Thai food, this is a great class! P.S. also had our first Tuk Tuk ride on the way to the local market.

Mandatory in Bangkok

We joined the class during our time in Bangkok. First of all, we went for a market tour and then, we cooked the ingredients. In conclusion we ate the dishes we cooked. Explanations given by Maliwas were interesting and clear. I would recommend the experience!!!!

#we love Thai food#

Try to book morning lessons , the visit to the market is a Must!!!!lovely experience !the chef is a lovely thay lady ! Thank you! Chef Stefano

fantastic experience

it was absolute fantastic!! everything started with a tuck tuck ride to a near market. then everything was well prepared to start cooking. delicious meals

Great experience

Great class! We hat a lot of fun and learned a lot. All of our (many!) questions were answered. Also visiting the market at the beginning was a great experience.

Incredible experience

All the reviews are true! This was the highlight of my trip. May was such a great teacher and so fun to be around. I ended up being the only person to sign up for the morning class and we had a private lesson, lucky me. She knew every vendor at the market and it really made you feel like you were have an experience like a local. You must do this on your trip to Bangkok I can’t recommend this enough!

Yummy, fun and easy

Great experience, easy and delicious. Was great value for all that we got out of it!! I don’t cook typically, but had a ton of fun

100% would recommend

Cooking lady was extremely sweet and helpful, recepies were simple yet delicious. 100% would recommend.

Best experience

This was the best part of my trip to Bangkok, I had so much fun and the food we cooked was amazing!!

Cook better than Thai Restaurants!

You will learn the make green curry paste from scratch and it will be better than any green curry you have had before. All dishes that we cooked - Tom Yum soup, Pad Thai, chicken green curry were nothing like we have tasted in Thai restaurants back home. We were thrilled and impressed with our cooking!!!