Cooking Classes With Cookly
We decided to check out Cookly, an awesome company which allows you to search for cooking culinary experiences all over the world. Simply put, it’s like Airbnb, but for foodies: you pick a location then book a culinary experience. Similar to most booking websites, it has all the information needed to book a tour, including reviews, prices, and more, allowing you to compare multiple schools just by using one website.
Being a massive foodie myself, I love the concept as I am a big believer that one of the best ways to truly experience and get to know a country is through its food. As a frequent traveler, I also have no room for souvenirs so being able to cook my favorite dishes from the countries I love the most is probably as good as it gets.
Used to western food, my partner and I joined this class with zero experience in Thai cooking. We left the class with a lot of tips we won’t forget, a recipe book we’ll be making full use of, and stomachs stuffed with food that none of the meals afterwards in Bangkok could even match.
The class started off with a trip to the market to “pretend shop” and get some insight. Then we headed to the school was fantastic. It was air conditioned and had all the facilities you needed.
We cooked 5 meals, changing between the chopping/mixing table, stoves upstairs and the dining section. Every time we progressed to a different step throughout the day, everything was already cleaned up and newly set out for us, great work by the staff working behind the scenes.
Oat, our head chef, gave us some really useful information and also had a sense of humour that kept my partner and I giggling throughout the day.
We would highly recommend this to anyone with or without cooking experience!