Thai Cooking Classes

Learn to cook famous Thai dishes in a relaxed and friendly environment. Small classes are conducted in a traditional open kitchen, and led by Thai cooks, making for a highly personalized and rewarding experience.

You'll get a feel for real Thai culture as you experience its rich colors, and unique flavors and smells. Students will prepare a complete 5-course meal for lunch completely from scratch.

This program is the ideal way to enjoy an authentic cultural and culinary experience. It's also perfect for the serious home cook who wants to learn how to cook authentic Thai food for their next dinner party, for spouses accompanying husband or wife on a business trip, or the adventurous traveler.

You can choose the day and time you would like to learn the cooking. Please let us know one day in advance, so we can prepare everything for you.

Our staff emphasizes a friendly teaching style centered on actually doing, rather than watching. We guarantee that by the time you complete our course you will not only have learned a thing or two about Thai cooking but will also have had a most memorable experience .

Thai cuisine is the national cuisine of Thailand. Thai cuisine places emphasis on lightly-prepared dishes with strong aromatic components. Thai cuisine is known for being spicy. Balance, detail and variety are important to Thai cooking. Thai food is known for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal: hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and (optional) bitter

Our courses include:
-An introduction to Thai ingredients.
-Your personal chef's hat and apron. -Comprehensive, easy-to-follow Thai cook book with the Thai food recipes you learn in class.
- Eating all the food that you cooked for lunch.
- Free transfers between your hotel and Koh Tao Montra (in case you don't stay at Montra)

There are 4 choices of food and 1 choice of dessert

The dishes can be varied by request but those are the most popular ones.

The following 4 choices are most commonly chosen by other students:

Fried spring roll rolls are an appetizer. Spring rolls can be found in several Asian countries Fried spring rolls are generally small and crispy. They can be sweet or savory; the latter are typically prepared with meat or vegetables. This version is fully wrapped before being pan fried or deep fried .

Tom Yum (Goong) is perhaps one of the most famous dishes in Thai cuisine . It is widely served in neighboring countries such as Malaysia , Singapore , and Indonesia , and has been popularized around the world.

Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant herbs generously used. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemon grass , kaffir lime leaves, galangal , lime juice, fish sauce and crushed chili peppers .

In Thailand, tom yum is usually made with prawns (tom yum goong), chicken (tom yum gai), fish (tom
straw or oyster mushrooms . The soup is often topped with generous sprinkling of fresh chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves.

Massaman Curry is a southern Thai dish that is Muslim in origin. It is most commonly made with beef , but can also be made with duck , chicken , or tofu

The flavoring for Massaman curry is called Massaman curry paste (nam prik kaeng masaman). The dish usually contains coconut milk , roasted peanuts , potatoes , bay leaves , cardamom pods, cinnamon , palm sugar , fish sauce , and tamarind sauce. Muslim , and later Portuguese , traders brought spices such as turmeric , cinnamon , cumin , cloves and nutmeg from the Middle East and India to the south coast of Thailand . The dish is served with rice and sometimes with pickled ginger or "Ajaad" sauce made with cucumber and peppers macerated in

The name Massaman is thought to be derived from the word Musulman [ citation needed ], a linguistic variation of the word Muslim . One of the earliest Thai recipes of the 19th century AD recorded it as "Mud-saman".

Pad Thai ("fried Thai style ") is a dish of stir-fried rice noodles with eggs , fish sauce tamarind juice, red chili pepper , plus any combination of bean sprouts , shrimp , chicken , or tofu , garnished with crushed peanuts , coriander and lime , the juice of which can be added along with Thai condiments . Pad Thai is one of Thailand 's national dishes . Though the dish had been known in various forms for centuries – it is thought to have been brought to the ancient Thai capital of Ayuthaya by Vietnamese traders – it was first made popular as a national dish by Luang Phibunsongkhram when he was prime minister during the 1930s and 1940s, partly as an element of his campaign for Thai nationalism and centralization, and partly for a campaign to reduce rice consumption in Thailand

Som Tam is a spicy salad made from shredded unripened papaya . Som tam is derived from a traditional dish in Laos called tam mak hoong .The dish combines the four main tastes of Thai cuisine : sour lime, hot chili, salty fish sauce, and sweetness added by palm sugar . In Thailand, it is customary that a customer ask the preparer to make the dish suited to his or her tastes.

Dessert: Sticky rice with coconut milk, or Mango with sticky rice(depends on the season).

Dessert: Banana with coconut milk, potato with coconut milk,

The course takes around 2-3 hours and of course you can share your self made meal with your family or friends. Please contact: info@kohtaomontra.com or 077 457 057 61.

Some impressions from previous cooking classes gallery