Cooking Morning Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market
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Chiang Mai, Thailand
- 4 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Learn the secrets behind some of Thailand’s most delicious dishes, like sticky rice with mango, Pad Thai, or Tomyum soup, during this hands-on cooking class. Follow your guide to the local market to shop for fresh seasonal produce, pick fresh herbs from their organic garden, then create your own personalized menu of five different dishes (including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options). Sit down to enjoy your tasty home-cooked lunch and receive a recipe book as a souvenir.
- Guided market and garden visits to select fresh produce
- Hands-on individual cooking class: one person per wok
- Choose your own menu & create your favorite dishes
- Convenient central meeting point pickup and drop-off (no hotel transport)
Sample Menu
Main
Curry Paste
Kindly choose ONE for Curry Paste from the following: - Green Curry Paste - Red Curry Paste - Massaman Curry Paste - Khaw Soi Curry Paste
Main
Curry
Kindly choose ONE for Curry from the following: - Green Curry+Chicken - Red Curry+Chicken - Massaman Curry+Chicken - Khaw Soi (Chiang Mai Noodles)
Main
Stir Fried
Kindly choose ONE for Stir Fried from the following: - Pad Thai - Fried Cashew Nut with Chicken - Stir Fried Morning Glory - Chicken with Basil leaves
Starter
Appetizer
Kindly choose ONE for Appetizer from the following: - Papaya Salad - Spring Rolls - Fresh Spring Rolls - Chicken Salad
Main
Soup
Kindly choose ONE for Soup from following: - Tom Yam Kung - Chicken in Coconut Milk - Glass Noodle Soup with Vegetable - Thai Noodle Soup with Pork
Dessert
Dessert
Kindly choose ONE for Dessert from the following: - Sticky Rice with Mango - Banana in Coconut Milk - Banana Spring Rolls - Black Sticky Rice Pudding
Main
Note:
Everyone Can Choose Their Own Menu! Make Your Food Spicy or Mind- Up to You.
What's Included
- Visit Local Market & Our Organic Garden
- All Fresh Ingredients for Cooking
- One Person per Wok
- Make Your Own Curry Paste One Person Per One Mortar
- English Speaking Instructor
- Tea, Coffee, Drinking Water
- Eating all Your Food or Take Away
- Free Wi-Fi
- Full Color Online Recipe Book
- Chiang Mai-styled Dining Room with Air Conditioning
- Eating by Open-air in Thai Pavilion at the Garden
- Online Photo Albums
- Selectable Menu
- Meat,Vegetarian,Vegan,Gluten-Free, Allergic Options Available
- Transport From/To the Hotel in Chiang Mai Oldtown
- Services above are not included for Non-Participant Visitors.
- Learn with 6 Menu., Everyone Can Choose Their Own Menu.
- Learn How to Cook Glutinous Rice For The Sticky Rice with Mango
- Make Your Food Spicy Or Mild-up To You.
- Basic class — easy to understand.
- Our class is located outside the city and may not be suitable for people who don’t like long drives
- Alcoholic BeveragesAvailable to Purchase
- Gratuities
- Non-Participant Visitor Fees for Guests accompanying a Non-Cooking Visitor
- Non-Participant Visitor Fees for Infants and Children under the Age of 6
Meeting and Pickup
You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup
Operating hours.9:00 am
What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Alexander_F
Brilliant cooking class, made 6 courses of delicious food. Vegan and vegetarian friendly, and able to make as spicy or mild as you like. Our instructor, Cream, was very kind and helpful. We thoroughly enjoyed the day and would book again.
Reviews
4.9
based on 219 reviews
Michele_B, Mar 2026
This was hands down an enjoyable morning learning how to cook traditional foods. Everyone was extremely helpful and the food we prepared was delicious!! Can't wait to try making it all!
Maryna_Z, Feb 2026
It was very good workshop, very well organised. Everything was clear and tasty. Many people came to workshop but they had a lot of teachers as well what makes it very comfortable for everyone
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Angela_P, Feb 2026
Good cooking class lots of choice of what to cook. Staff were helpful , it was a little regimented but well organised . Didn’t get told they couldn’t pick us up from our hotel until a few days before even though I put our hotel in the booking months ago.
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Raymond_M, Jan 2026
Great cooking class! I liked that we could pick the menu items we wanted to eat. This was actually the second cooking class I did in Thailand but liked it since I could try making other dishes. I liked the hotel pick up too which was a nice bonus.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Carl_P, Jan 2026
Learn about Thai ingredients, do some basic cooking and enjoy delicious food you can't believe you prepared.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Andrew_B, Jan 2026
Had great fun. Got picked up from hotel and was a little intimidated with the numbers at first but didn't need to be. Got taken to a food market and explained different fruits,foods etc before all then driving to the cooking school. It brilliant. So well organised,from being shown round the garden and to full instructions on what we were doing with 1 2 1 help. Suggest slip ons because you take off your shoes when you go to sit down( on the floor cushions) in separate room. The flavours,ingredients and help was fantastic. The lady who runs the school is great. Sounds like some schoolmaster and we all jumped but she is warm and passionate and hugged us all when we left. 100% DO THIS.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Jenna_T, Jan 2026
Everyone and everything was great except for this one lady in charge who was yelling at everybody lol once I was able to tune her out it was all good
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Paige_F, Jan 2026
Absolutely loved this experience! Getting to see the different ingredients, plants and market . The girls are all so knowledgeable and funny , it was a really fun day. Thank you!
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Abiy_S, Jan 2026
Great experience! Learned a lot and it was just fun! Instructions were easy to follow and logistics were executed flawlessly!
Response from Host, Jan 2026
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Gloria_V, Dec 2025
very fun, and delicious! Hotel pickup and drop off made doing this very easy too. The cooking school is a fairly short ride away from the traffic and pollution of the city.
Response from Host, Dec 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Janette_B, Nov 2025
A really fun activity. Picked up from the hotel, really well organised. Received a WhatsApp message directly after paying on Viator, to organise the location and time. Then on to the clean market where our guide showed us Thai fruit and veg’. Had a short time to buy some unusual fruits not available in UK. Then off to the school. All the cookery tutors spoke good English. Cooked a five course meal and ate it afterwards. Delicious! A look around their organic herb garden with explanations of what was growing. Definitely give this unique experience a go! Take a break from the temples for a day! Highly recommend.
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
MariaM_T, Nov 2025
Excellent tour. I really enjoyed and recommend this to everyone. The staff was patient to instruct step by step the menu, directions, products used. After I cooked my own meal it tasted fantastic.
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Amy_M, Nov 2025
It was a lot of fun. All the instructors were very helpful. Our instructor Gift was extremely pleasant. We really enjoyed it.
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Nadine_M, Nov 2025
We visited a fresh food market and were shown some of the ingredients commonly used in Thai food. We were also shown some of the fruits currently available. Then we traveled to the cooking site. We were given a tour of the spice and fruit gardens.
We were brought to a dining room to cool off and hydrate before we started our cooking class. Once everyone had the opportunity to use the bathroom and drink some water they brought us to the cooking area.
They were very organized and had the ingredients set up for each participant. We were provided an apron to wear and we each had our own set of cutlery and prep tools. They taught us how to prepare our foods efficiently. They started with group instructions and then helped individuals as needed.
There were 30 people in our class and we moved through each dish at the same time switching between the ingredients prep stations and the cooking stations.
We made a 5-course meal featuring curry, rice and noodles. There was more food than could be eaten in one sitting!
The staff took photos of the groups and made sure everyone was comfortable. They also shared a digital cookbook with us that provided the recipes for all of the dishes we made and more.
It was worth every penny!
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
RebeccaS_G, Oct 2025
Pickup was prompt. The people were polite and efficient. The food was delicious! It was mostly prepped beforehand with a little assistance from us. But we did the cooking with good supervision. The market visit was interesting as the different fruits and other food stuffs were explained.
Response from Host, Oct 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Akash_S, Oct 2025
Gift and Creme and the team were excellent. We enjoyed cooking at the school. We had a lovely experience. Thank you.
Response from Host, Oct 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Deborah_W, Sep 2025
Siam Garden Cooking School is the best cooking school in Chaing Mai! When I decided to visit Thailand, a friend told me that I should take a cooking class while I was there. I had time in Chaing Mai. Siam Garden had great reviews.
Gift picked me up at my hotel in a very nice car. We then picked up three more participants at their hotels. Gift took us to a local market where she told us about many fruits, and different rice. We then drove to their house, garden, and cooking school on the outside of Chaing Mai. The school had contacted me upon booking to choose several dishes to prepare. They asked me about dietary restrictions and food allergies.
Gift and Cream showed us around their garden, and taught us how to prepare many dishes including spring rolls, tom yum, pad Thai, Khao soi, and fried bananas. This was one of my favorite experiences in Thailand! The staff were all sweet. The food was great. I made new friends. Thank you Siam Garden Cooking School for a lovely day
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Thank you for the great review! It was a pleasure having you in the class. Wishing you many happy meals and spicy adventures!
Cassandra_T, Jun 2025
This was better than expected. We were picked up from our hotel and taken in a small group to a market where we explored and got to purchase some fruits to take home. Then we were taken to the cooking school, which is like a large house outside of the city that includes a small farm. We explored and learned about local herbs and spices and we cooked a five course meal. Everything was delicious. I can’t wait to re-create these recipes when I get home thanks in-part to the free cookbook they give you after the tour.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Thanks for joining our class and for your kind words! You were such a fun group to cook with. Hope to see you again for round two!
Robert_U, Jun 2025
A lot of variety. 6 courses of food/ dishes including dessert. Had a lot of food. Wish we had more time preparing ingredients ourselves. A lot of ingredients were already pre prepped for us. Overall good value for our money.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Thanks for joining our class and for your kind words! You were such a fun group to cook with. Hope to see you again for round two!
Jimmy_Y, Jun 2025
Tour operators, Gift & Cream, were enthusiastic to make a fun while making the different foods by ourselves. Lots of enjoy. I can try to make Thai style foods after back home.
Could be more fun with more tourists in on season.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Thanks for joining our class and for your kind words! You were such a fun group to cook with. Hope to see you again for round two!
Alexander_F, Apr 2025
Brilliant cooking class, made 6 courses of delicious food. Vegan and vegetarian friendly, and able to make as spicy or mild as you like. Our instructor, Cream, was very kind and helpful. We thoroughly enjoyed the day and would book again.
Response from Host, Apr 2025
So glad to hear you had a great experience!
You brought such good energy to our class — keep on cooking Thai food and spreading the flavor!
Erica_M, Apr 2025
The cooking experience was very unique and adventurous, we were able to go to a natural garden and pick herbs that we needed to cook our meal and the meal was amazing 🩷🩷
The staff was great, respectful, and very informative 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Would highly recommend
Response from Host, Apr 2025
We’re so happy you enjoyed your time with us!
It means a lot that you took the time to leave a review. Come back anytime — the kitchen is always open for you!
Geoffrey_A, Mar 2025
Excellent local fresh market tour with a lot of information about local produce and its use then followed by a great lesson in Thai cooking. All ending in a delicious 4 course meal that we cooked ourselves,
We would rate thie at 6 stars if we could,
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Thank you so much for your lovely review!
We had such a great time cooking with you — hope you’re making delicious Thai food at home already!
Tiana_S, Mar 2025
It was amazing! One of the highlights of our trip. We got to pick our dishes to make. Staff fun, organized and very knowledgeable. Would absolutely go back and do it again!
Marlene_K, Mar 2025
The perfect cooking class. Menus were personalized to each person's choices, but it didn't slow down the class. All of the staff were very knowledgeable, friendly and fun to be with. We all cooked 6 menu items and even got to see many of the ingredients in plant form in their garden. The visit to the market prior to the class was informative and very clean. I would highly recommend this class. It may not be as well known as some of the others, and I'm not sure why. It was excellent and fun.
Stavros_A, Feb 2025
It's not like you'll actually understand Thai cuisine, but you will enjoy cooking and eating.
Not easy, but lots of fun.
It includes visiting a local market before going to the cooking location.
sarah_q, Feb 2025
Picked up on time from hotel. 9 on the bus.
Shown around the fruit market first then went to cooking school.
Taken around the kitchen garden and all the leaves, herbs etc were explained. Then into the lesson. Other groups joined us but that was ok. It is set up with military precision. The main lady is very stern but it made it great fun, like being told off by the headmaster in school.
We were taken through the ingredients one by one and told what to clearly by the staff. As each course was completed, we went and all ate together. The food we created was amazing, very flavourful and authentic. Everybody really enjoyed the day and the experience. Would definitely recommend to anyone.
OlanaSusan_S, Jan 2025
You cook every dish you will have for lunch on your own with their guidance. This was such a wonderful morning and informative. I will be cooking these meals at home for sure. Thank you for a pleasant experience.
Rebecca_W, Jan 2025
Great value for a fun and interesting morning. Everyone was very friendly and you learn a lot about the traditional food.
Selin_A, Dec 2024
Overall it was amazing. We learned a lot and everything was very well organised. We went to a local market where we learned about fruits and food then we went to the cooking school. We got to see spices in the school garden.
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