Thai Cooking

There are cooking classes that take you to a kitchen and hand you a recipe card. This is not one of them.

Ayara's Thai cooking experience begins at the Kamala fresh market, where our chefs walk you through the ingredients that define Thai cuisine — galangal, kaffir lime leaves, bird's eye chillies, lemongrass, fresh coconut milk — explaining what each one does and how to identify the best. From there, you visit the chef's garden on the resort grounds, where home-grown herbs are harvested fresh for the class.

Then you cook. Properly. With technique, with flavour, with the kind of patience and knowledge that only comes from chefs who grew up eating this food.

The class ends with a private meal — just you and whoever you came with — eating what you made, in the place where you made it.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Depending on the day's menu (changes seasonally), you may prepare:

• Tom Kha Gai (coconut galangal soup)
• Pad Thai with fresh prawns
• Green or red curry from scratch — paste included
• Som Tum (papaya salad)
• Mango sticky rice

All dishes use fresh ingredients sourced that morning. No pre-made pastes. No shortcuts.

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