Learn Thai Cuisine in Bangkok

Honest level: Beginner -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Professional Thai Cuisine Programme (Diplôme de Cuisine Thaïe)

A long-form professional Thai program of about 540 instruction hours over roughly 30 weeks, teaching more than 200 recipes across traditional, regional and royal Thai cuisine, Thai-Chinese dishes and Thai desserts. Students learn curry-paste pounding, the sour-sweet-salty-spicy balance, and classical techniques through demonstration plus hands-on practical kitchens. The diploma is accredited by Thailand's Ministry of Education.

An in-depth, ministry-accredited Thai cuisine diploma taught in Bangkok, covering regional and royal Thai cooking from curry pastes up.

Masters & lineage

• Nooror Somany Steppe (Blue Elephant)

Why Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Culinary School

It runs the world's only Professional Thai Cuisine Programme alongside the globally recognised Le Cordon Bleu diploma lineage, and was named Asia's Best Culinary Training Institution 2025.

Schools in Bangkok

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Culinary School
  Professional Thai Cuisine Programme (Diplôme de Cuisine Thaïe)
  A long-form professional Thai program of about 540 instruction hours over roughly 30 weeks, teaching more than 200 recipes across traditional, regional and royal Thai cuisine, Thai-Chinese dishes and
  https://www.cordonbleu.edu/thailand/professional-thai-cuisine/en
• Blue Elephant Cooking School
  Thai Culinary Masterclass / discovery classes
  Cooking school inside the Blue Elephant restaurant in a Sathorn colonial mansion, founded by Chef Nooror Somany Steppe, offering half-day Thai classes with a market visit and a certificate, plus longer masterclass options.
  https://blueelephant.com/cooking-school/cooking-school-bangkok/
• Baipai Thai Cooking School
  Thai cooking course (two daily lessons of four dishes)
  Bangkok cooking school established in 2002 and accredited by Thailand's Ministry of Education, teaching hands-on Thai classes at individual stations with herb-garden tours and coconut-cream preparation.
  https://www.baipai.com/
• Silom Thai Cooking School
  Thai cooking class with fresh-market tour
  Small-group Bangkok cooking school on Soi Decho running market-tour Thai classes for around 9-10 students in a traditional open kitchen across morning, afternoon and evening sessions.
  https://www.silomthaicooking.com/

The credential

Professional Thai Cuisine Certificate / Diploma (Le Cordon Bleu Dusit or accredited Thai culinary college) · Certifying body: Thai Ministry of Education (accredited schools) / Le Cordon Bleu Dusit

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Thai Cuisine

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.