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Highlights
- Dive into Thai Akha Kitchen to connect with Akha heritage through food, gaining understanding of Northern Thailand's culture and cuisine.
- Start your session by meeting Akha hosts who introduce their community's story in Thailand and set the scene for exploring Northern Thai flavors.
- Gain insight into Akha food traditions as you move from ingredients to finished dishes, seeing how Northern Thai cooking fits into daily life.
- Hear how the Akha became Thai citizens in the 1900s, and use their recipes as a lens to understand customs, family life, and celebrations.
- Select your format, from a morning cooking class with market visit to an evening Akha and Thai class, or a local fresh market tour.
- Choose a cooking class to prepare Thai and Akha dishes, from papaya salad and spring rolls to curries, soups, and desserts with menu choices.
Your Experience
Explore Thai Akha Kitchen with hands-on Thai and Akha dishes, market-to-table ingredients, and Northern Thailand cuisine insights.
Getting started
Begin by checking in at Thai Akha Kitchen for your selected option. Your instructor explains the format of the experience and outlines whether you will join a morning cooking class with market tour, an evening cooking class, or a local fresh market tour. Once the plan is clear, you either head out to the local fresh market or move straight into the cooking area to start your session.
What to expect
Thai Akha Kitchen
This experience at Thai Akha Kitchen focuses on the food and culture of the Akha people and the flavors of Northern Thailand cuisine. Depending on the option you choose, you combine a cooking class with a local fresh market tour, take part in an evening cooking class, or join a local fresh market tour.
Features
- Insight into Akha food and culture is built into the session as you hear about the Akha people, a community that became Thai citizens in the 1900s, and how their traditions shape the Akha dishes you prepare.
- Introduction to Northern Thailand cuisine gives you context on regional ingredients and flavor profiles so you can connect what you taste in the classroom with what you encounter in Chiang Mai and the wider region.
- A morning cooking class with market tour, if selected, starts with a local fresh market tour where you visit the local market to shop ingredients; you observe daily life as you choose fresh produce, herbs, and spices to bring back to Thai Akha Kitchen.
- An evening cooking class option focuses entirely on cooking; you learn to prepare Thai and Akha dishes step by step, following a structured progression from appetizers to mains and desserts in a dedicated kitchen setting.
- A local fresh market tour option centers on the market experience itself, where you explore the local fresh market, visit the market to shop ingredients, gain insight into Akha food and culture, and learn about ingredients used in Northern Thailand cuisine.
- Appetizers, desserts, and 3 Akha dishes including Sapi Thong are on the menu as part of the cooking class: you work through dishes such as papaya salad, spring roll, mango with sticky rice, pumpkin in coconut milk, Akha salad, and Akha soup, with Sapi Thong as a tomato dipping sauce.
- Stir fry, soup, and curry, each with menu choices, form the core of your main courses, so you choose from options like sweet and sour vegetables, cashew nut with chicken, chicken with hot basil, Pad Thai, chicken in coconut milk, hot and sour prawn soup, clear soup with egg tofu, and curry made from a freshly prepared paste such as chicken green curry, chicken red curry, Panang curry, or Massaman curry.
Inclusions
- Insight into Akha food and culture
- Introduction to Northern Thailand cuisine
- Morning cooking class with market tour [as per option selected]
- Evening cooking class [as per option selected]
- Local fresh market tour [as per option selected]
- Learn to prepare Thai and Akha dishes [as per option selected]
- Visit local market to shop ingredients [as per option selected]
- Appetizers and desserts such as papaya salad, spring roll, mango with sticky rice, and pumpkin in coconut milk [as per option selected]
- 3 Akha dishes: Sapi Thong (tomato dipping sauce), Akha salad, and Akha soup [as per option selected]
- Stir fry dish choices: sweet & sour vegetables, cashew nut with chicken, chicken with hot basil, or Pad Thai [as per option selected]
- Soup choices: chicken in coconut milk, hot & sour prawn soup, or clear soup with egg tofu [as per option selected]
- Curry paste and curry choices: chicken green curry, chicken red curry, Panang curry, or Massaman curry [as per option selected]
This product offers multiple ticket options. Some items above (like transfers or fast-track access) may only apply to specific options — confirm what's included when you select yours.
Ticket Delivery
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Cancellation Policy
These tickets can't be rescheduled or cancelled.
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