Description

Prung Thai offers authentic Thai cooking classes for anyone living or visiting Phuket. Our courses are taught in English and feature all of the essentials such as fruit and vegetable carving, herbs, spices and curry pastes, making coconut milk, knife techniques, cooking utensils and much more. All classes are unique and taught by an Executive Master Thai chef Pairoj with a life-long experience of over twenty-five years cooking in five-star hotels. Join in with us and you'll have a wonderful in-depth cooking experience.

Daily courses are offered from Monday through Saturday.

Private Thai Cooking Lessons: Give yourself, your special friends or your family a gift they will never forget, a wonderful and memorable experience in discovering how to prepare a delicious array of authentic Thai dishes through our hands-on cooking courses featured entrees that you choose.

Highlights

Thai Food Story

Thai food is internationally famous. Whether chilli-hot or comparatively bland, harmony is the guiding principle behind each dish. Thai cuisine is essentially a marriage of centuries-old Eastern and Western influences harmoniously combined into something uniquely Thai. Characteristics of Thai food depend on who cooks it, for whom it is cooked, for what occasion, and where it is cooked. Dishes can be refined and adjusted to suit all palates.

Originally, Thai cooking reflected the characteristics of a waterborne lifestyle. Aquatic animals, plant and herbs were major ingredients. Large chunks of meat were eschewed. Subsequent influences introduced the use of sizeable chunks to Thai cooking. With their Buddhist background, Thais shunned the use of large animals in big chunks. Big cuts of meat were shredded and laced with herbs and spices. Traditional Thai cooking methods were stewing and baking, or grilling. Chinese influences saw the introduction of frying, stir-frying and deep-frying. Culinary influences from the 17th century onwards included Portuguese, Dutch, French and Japanese. Chilies were introduced to Thai cooking during the late 1600s by Portuguese missionaries who had acquired a taste for them while serving in South America. Thais were very adapting at "Siameseising" foreign cooking methods, and substituting ingredients. The ghee used in Indian cooking was replaced by coconut oil, and coconut milk substituted for other dairy products.

Overpowering pure spices were toned down and enhanced by fresh herbs such as lemon grass and galanga. Eventually, fewer and less spices were used in Thai curries, while the use of fresh herbs increased. It is generally acknowledged that Thai curries burn intensely, but briefly, whereas other curries, with strong spices, burn for longer periods. Instead of serving dishes in courses, a Thai meal is served all at once, permitting diners to enjoy complementary combinations of different tasters.

A proper Thai meal should consist of a soup, a curry dish with condiments, a dip with accompanying fish and vegetables. A spiced salad may replace the curry dish. The soup can also be spicy, but the curry should be replaced by a non-spiced item. There must be harmony of tastes and textures within individual dishes and the entire meal.

Spicy Thai Food: Thai food is famous for its small chillies/pimento ("Phrik Khi Noo"). They come in a variety of colours including red and green. Usually they are cut in slices for the Thai food dishes. They can also be ground. A common misconception by people is that they think they can get rid of the spicy taste by drinking water. This is untrue. A good way to get rid of the spicy taste is to eat rice.

Food in Thai Culture: Thai's often discuss food as part of their daily conversation. A common way to open a dialogue with another person would be by asking them if they have already eaten. Throughout the cities and rural areas of Thailand, you will find loud, colorful and crowded markets.

Travel Types

• Cooking

Cost in US$:

This Program is open to

American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 4 person

Application Process Involves

• Disciplinary Clearance Form
• Other
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

Daily courses

Post Services Include

• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

PrungThai Cooking Home's Mission Statement

"PrungThai" The best Thai Cookery School offers authentic Thai Cooking classes in Phuket Thailand. Courses are taught in English and feature essentials like fruit and vegetable carving, an unique Executive Master Thai Chef skill experience of five-star hotel. Here you get a much more in depth cooking experience.

Year Founded

Thai Cooking Class