Thai cooking class — experience the essence of Thai Cuisine
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Thai flavors & textures
Traditional Thai dishes with a healthy twist
We'll bring Thailand to us in this Thai cooking class with a colorful array of fresh ingredients and synchronizing flavors. Let me demystify my favorites: Pad Thai, Pad Se Eew, Thai Green Curry, Tom Kha Soup, Larb Gai, Miang Kham, and Mango Sticky Rice.
We'll put a twist to these authentic dishes by adding zoodles and carrodooles to our Pad Thai. These are thin pasta-like slices of the veggies made with a "julienne peeler."
Your Thai 3-course meal includes:


Miang Kham
This traditional appetizer bursts with flavor in your mouth, transporting you to exotic lands.


Choose one
or add on
- Pad Thai
- Pad See Ew
- Tom Kha Soup
- Larb Salad


Mango Sticky Rice
Velvety smooth,
sweet-n-salty, with coconut cream, palm sugar and toasted rice powder.


Thai Sangria
Add a fruit salad
a Thai Sangria! 😉
I will provide the fruit and flavors for an intense memorable Thai version.
Other 3-course meals to choose from:
Ingredients for Authentic Thai Cooking
There are many online sites with a comprehensive list of Thai cuisine. I suggest starting with Wikipedia’s Thai cuisine page — this is a site I donate to each month (it’s a nonprofit that operates on donations).
Here is a comprehensive list with fabulous descriptions from SeriousEats (.com) — a favorite site for in-depth solid information.
Explained in detail here, are these 6 most-common Thai cooking methods:
- Stir Fry “Pad”
- Steam “Neung”
- Stewing “Toon”
- Grilling “Yang”
- Deep Fry “Tod”
- Salad “Yam”
Here is a thorough list of pastes, chiles and such.
The spectacularly bold Thai flavors are combinations of sweet, sour and salty, not in any specific order. Here are some of my favorites:
- Fish sauce (the fermented pineapple vegetarian fish sauce is worthy!)
- Oyster sauce
- Lime
- Galangal (easily available dried and powdered online, and seasonally fresh in some stores)
- Lemongrass (available fresh, dried, powdered and frozen)
- Fresh herbs (basil, cilantro, mint, parsley)
- Pandan leaves (available fresh and dried)
- Toasted rice powder
- Palm sugar
- Tamarind
- Coconut milk & cream
This list is not complete nor in any specific order:
- Ginger
- Garlic
- Broccoli
- Tomatoes
- Bell peppers
- Eggplant
- Carrots
- Green onions
- Beans
- Lettuce
- Squash
- Radishes
- Pole beans
- Cucumbers
- Mushrooms
Here’s a list with lovely images and short descriptions of vegetables, herbs & roots used in Thai cooking.
- Pork, chicken
- Fish, seafood
- Some beef, water buffalo
There are 2 main catories for Thai rice:
1. Long-grain:
- Jasmine
- Brown/red Rice
2. Short-grain rice:
- Sweet rice
- Glutinous rice
- Brown Sticky Rice
Rice & root products:
- Noodles
- Flours and starches
- Wontons
- Rice paper wraps
Here’s a comprehensive list.