Learn Thai Cuisine in Chiang Mai

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

Schools in Chiang Mai

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

• Thai Farm Cooking School
  Full-day cooking class at the organic farm
  Operating since 2001 on an organic farm about 17 km outside Chiang Mai, this school runs a full-day class with a local market visit, farm ingredient-picking and making curry paste, curry, soup, stir-fry, a noodle dish and dessert from scratch.
  https://thaifarmcooking.com/
• Asia Scenic Thai Cooking School
  Full course at the organic farm
  Run by Gayle and family since 2007 with both an Old City garden and a countryside organic farm, Asia Scenic's full farm course teaches six dishes amid 20-plus home-grown vegetables and sends students home with a recipe book.
  https://www.asiascenic.com/
• Thai Akha Kitchen
  Morning cooking class with market tour (full 11-dish menu)
  Run by members of the Akha hill-tribe in an open-air bamboo kitchen south of Chiang Mai's old city, this school's market-tour class has each student cook an 11-dish Thai-Akha menu at their own wok and mortar station.
  https://www.thaiakhakitchen.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.