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Chiang Mai Cooking Classes: The 15 Best Farm & Market Kitchens

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Half the classes in town run on organic farms outside the city, the other half in family kitchens near the markets. These 15 are priced and clear about how many dishes you cook, whether the market walk is included and how hungry to arrive.

Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Organic Farm in Chiang Mai - Five kinds of cooking, with plenty of hands-on work
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Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Organic Farm in Chiang Mai

1.Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Organic Farm in Chiang Mai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 19,087 reviews · from $29Our pick

Start with hotel pickup and a short visit to a Chiang Mai market, then head to Smile Organic Farm Cooking School. Choose dishes to make across five categories, explore the herb garden, and cook with guidance from instructors such as Luna, Love, K, or Cici. Vegetarian, vegan, mild, and spicy options are available.

“Such a great experience ‘Team Luna’, we loved that you could select your own cooking menu! Everything was organised so well, I highly recommend!”

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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour - The Garden Turns Ingredients Into a Meal
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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour

2.Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 4,824 reviews · 3h 30m · from $31

Spend three and a half hours with a local Thai instructor, starting at a Chiang Mai market and continuing in an organic kitchen garden. Choose dishes to cook, pound curry paste with a mortar and pestle, and finish with mango sticky rice. Instructors include Wave, Tu, Flook, Kat, Balloon, Toey, and Mew.

“Everything was well organised, the market tour was great and Balloon, our guide and cook is great and fun”

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Chiang Mai: Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit - Your own station, with help at every step
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Chiang Mai: Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit

3.Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 4,546 reviews · 210 minutes - 7 hours · from $34

Visit a Chiang Mai market, tour Grandma’s organic farm, then cook Thai favorites at your own station. Full-day classes add traditional coconut-milk making; instructors such as Kiki, Jimmie, and Patty lead sessions in English. Choose a morning, afternoon, evening, or full-day option.

“Would highly recommend this for anyone in Chiang Mai. One of the highlights of our honeymoon trip and the Khao Soi was the best!”

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Thai and Akha Cooking Class in Chiang Mai - A bright, clean kitchen with room to work
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Thai and Akha Cooking Class in Chiang Mai

4.Thai and Akha Cooking Class in Chiang Mai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4,358 reviews · from $42

Spend about six hours cooking Thai and Akha dishes with an instructor at Thai Akha Kitchen. Morning classes add a market visit and ingredient shopping; both sessions include an individual cooking station, a meal of your creations, Akha coffee, a recipe book, and pickup and drop-off within 3 km of central Chiang Mai.

“Excellent experience. Very well organized. It was a little long for us but still enjoyable. We would recommend.”

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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Market and Pickup - Choose dishes that suit your appetite
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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Market and Pickup

5.Cooking Class with Market and Pickup

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 1,365 reviews · 3h 30m · from $25

Visit a fresh market with an English-speaking instructor, then cook in a small group at Daddy’s Kitchen. You’ll get your own station and wok, choose dishes to prepare, and finish with mango sticky rice. Hotel pickup and drop-off, ingredients and a digital recipe book are included.

“Very fun and interesting cooking class. Cha Em was an amazing instructor, with great English and very funny too. We made four dishes each (7 between the two of us) so was really good for making and trying lots of new food. Would definitely recommend. In future, if I booked the morning slot again, I would not eat breakfast before as you eat your first meals at around 10:30.”

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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Organic Farm at Mama Noi - Your own station, with a chef nearby
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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Organic Farm at Mama Noi

6.Cooking Class with Organic Farm at Mama Noi

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 1,151 reviews · 4 hours · from $32

At Mama Noi Cookery School, a local English-speaking instructor takes you from a Chiang Mai market to the school’s organic garden, then guides you through hands-on Thai cooking at your own station. Choose dishes from a set menu, eat what you make, and take home a recipe book. Hotel pickup and drop-off from the city area are included.

“Excellent. Our host was very enthusiastic but also attentive to our requirements.”

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Full Day Thai Cooking at Farm (Chiang Mai) - Choosing Your Menu at Smile Organic Farm
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Full Day Thai Cooking at Farm (Chiang Mai)

7.Full Day Thai Cooking at Farm (Chiang Mai)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,127 reviews · from $39

Start with pickup in Chiang Mai and a brief visit to a local market, then head to Smile Organic Farm Cooking School. Choose dishes across eight cooking categories, learn about herbs and vegetables in the garden, and prepare food with guidance from instructors including Natalie, Lily, Anya and Nina. Ingredients, a recipe book, a photo album and hotel drop-off are included.

“Amazing experience! The food was very tasty and fun to make and our guide (Anya) was so friendly and funny!”

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Chiang Mai: HALF-DAY COOKING COURSE at a Thai Cooking Farm - The Rice Barn’s farm kitchen
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Chiang Mai: HALF-DAY COOKING COURSE at a Thai Cooking Farm

8.HALF-DAY COOKING COURSE at a Thai Cooking Farm

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 705 reviews · 6 hours · from $28

Spend six hours exploring a local market, then cook Thai dishes at an open-air farm kitchen with instructors such as Oily, Timi, Katie, or Gobby. You get your own station, ingredients, round-trip hotel transport, tea or coffee, and a color recipe e-book. The menu varies, but can include Pad Thai, Tom Yum, curry, cashew chicken, and mango sticky rice.

“Communication prior to trip was first class. What a fantastic day from the start to finish. The stop at the market was super interesting. Being on the river farm was great. The farmers were in the fields preparing the soil for the sticky rice. We had two great instructors Koppi and Katie. They were fantastic and full of enthusiasm, really engaging and explained things well. The food we cooked was excellent and we thoroughly enjoyed the whole day. Thank you :-)”

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Chiang Mai: Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit - Learn by cooking, then eat what you made
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Chiang Mai: Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit

9.Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 648 reviews · 5 hours · from $28

Join Galangal Cooking Studio for an evening Thai cooking class with central Chiang Mai hotel pickup. Browse a local market, see herbs growing in an organic garden, then choose dishes to prepare with an English-speaking instructor such as New or Aoy. Expect hands-on cooking, a shared meal, and recipes to take home.

“We booked the cooking class last week on the spur of the moment. The driver picked us up in a typical red truck. We went to a local market and our cook (New) was explained to us what the vegetables were that we were going to cook with and then we were able to have a short time to wander the market. We then went to the cooking school and it was fabulous. Learning how to make a green curry paste from scratch was amazing. All of our meals we cooked were amazing. We are looking forward to making these when we return home :) This is definitely the cooking…”

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Cooking Class with Organic Farm in Chiang Mai at Mama Noi - The meal is the lesson’s best payoff
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Cooking Class with Organic Farm in Chiang Mai at Mama Noi

10.Cooking Class with Organic Farm in Chiang Mai at Mama Noi

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 502 reviews · from $32

Mama Noi’s four-hour Chiang Mai cooking class pairs hotel pickup with a local market visit, an organic garden tour, and hands-on cooking at your own station. Prepare a full meal with guidance from a local instructor, adjust the spice to your taste, then take home a recipe book to help you recreate the dishes.

“One of my favorite days in Thailand so far! You get to stop at the market first briefly before and then have a tour of their beautiful garden and get to try lots of the ingredients that you get you cook with and get to adjust the dishes to your tatse. The chef was very energetic and enthusiastic:) and to top it all off you get to bring home a little cook book and take home whatever you can't eat. Their team was very friendly, organized and efficient with the way they ran things as well.”

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Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour - Make curry paste and six dishes yourself
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Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

11.Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 394 reviews · from $29

Start at 3:30 pm with a 30-minute visit to Somphet Market, then head to a nearby farm for a four-hour cooking session. You’ll make curry paste and six dishes at your own station, with demonstrations of papaya salad and mango sticky rice. Chef Perm is named in one account of the class; round-trip hotel transfers are included.

“Ride was punctual and our guide/cook was amazing. There were jokes and laughs non stop. Everyone that was there with us trueky enjoyed themselves”

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We Cook Thai Home Garden Cooking School - Mam’s home garden cooking school
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We Cook Thai Home Garden Cooking School

12.We Cook Thai Home Garden Cooking School

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 378 reviews · 270 minutes - 5 hours · from $32

Spend five hours with Mam, the owner and English-speaking instructor, starting at a local market to learn about Thai herbs, spices, vegetables, and fruit. Then cook hands-on at her home garden school, choosing dishes across Thai food categories. Each participant gets a wok, ingredients, a recipe book, and a meal to enjoy.

“Mam was great, she picked us up from our hotel then took us round a Thai marketplace to get ingredients. She explained lots of fruits, vegetables and herbs to us. We then went back to hers for cooking. We made 5 delicious dishes each. I would recommend skipping breakfast if you are doing the 9am class!”

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Benny's Home Cooking Chiang Mai - Cook at Benny’s home, not a demonstration hall
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Benny’s Home Cooking Chiang Mai

13.Benny’s Home Cooking Chiang Mai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 328 reviews · from $55

Benny’s six-hour Chiang Mai class starts with hotel pickup and a guided visit to a local market outside the city center. With Benny and her team, you’ll taste local snacks, choose dishes to cook, make curry paste and prepare an appetizer, soup, noodle dish, curry and dessert. Vegetarian meals are available, and the group is capped at nine.

“Great experience with a local talent. She and her team were so very kind and prepared to make our day terrific”

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Chiang Mai: Elephant Sanctuary Bamboo Raft & Padthai Cooking - Meeting the Elephants at Living Green
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Chiang Mai: Elephant Sanctuary Bamboo Raft & Padthai Cooking

14.Elephant Sanctuary Bamboo Raft & Padthai Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 245 reviews · 10 hours · from $54

Travel from Chiang Mai to Living Green Elephant Sanctuary, about 90 minutes away, for a guided visit with rescued elephants, a vegetarian Pad Thai workshop, and bamboo rafting on the Wang River. You’ll learn about elephant care, feed them under staff guidance, and walk with them in the forest. Guides such as Mark, Jon, and Rainbow have led the day, though staffing can vary.

“An amazing experience well worth doing as an unforgettable awesome memory. Transport by minibus was a bit hairy at times (fast driver with late breaking habit!) & not too comfy but otherwise great trip. Guides were amazing, very knowledgeable and passionate about the elephants, Pao & Rainbow are lovely and so friendly. You get so close & hands on with the elephants and interact loads. Making the pad tai was fun and it tasted delicious. The rafting experience was brilliant so much fun and great raftmen who really hype up the splashing and camaraderie with whooping and giggles. Overall a must do experience that i'll never forget”

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Tomyumthai Cooking Class in Chiang Mai - A meal served one dish at a time
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Tomyumthai Cooking Class in Chiang Mai

15.Tomyumthai Cooking Class in Chiang Mai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 234 reviews · from $32

Join Oun, Gae, or another Tom Yum Thai Cooking School instructor for a market visit and hands-on lesson in a group of up to 10. Choose six dishes to cook, eat them as you go, and take home a recipe book. The roughly five-hour class includes equipment, drinks, and Old City hotel pickup.

“Fantastic. Cooking and eating in what feels like a family home. Great experience. Hosts are good fun and make the 3 hours very enjoyable. Food tasted great. Definitely one to do again and highly recommend.”

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