Authentic Southern Thai Cuisine with a Culinary Expert in Her Cooking Studio - Day Trip

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Pat learned to cook from her family and has been teaching cooking classes from her home for a couple of decades now. She was born in Bangkok and lived in California for eight years, where she worked at a Thai restaurant. She then moved back to Thailand, to Phuket, where she married her husband and started teaching Thai cooking classes in her traditional Thai garden house. Pat will welcome you into her traditional Thai home with a warm smile. Her house is very conveniently located near the city and the beach. It is colorful and beautifully decorated with family photos, plants, ceramics and a koi fish pond. While you sip on your homemade lemongrass tea, Pat will share cooking stories and inform you about Thai culinary traditions. Later you will join her at the dining table for an authentic Southern Thai everyday meal that might include dishes such as yum puk (her signature salad made with white fern or asparagus, prawns and chicken), spring rolls and tom kha kai (Thai coconut soup). Your meal will end with a sweet dessert like kluai buat chi (banana in coconut milk). If you book a cooking experience, enjoy a hands-on lesson just outside Pat’s home, where long counters are set up for cooking. During the two hour class, you will learn to make a Thai appetizer, entree and dessert along with Pat. After cooking three dishes, you will move inside the house and join Pat at the dining table to enjoy your creations. She will also give you printed copies of her recipes so you can recreate these dishes back home! Pat also offers an optional market tour add-on.

Vacation Inclusions

• Meal
• Cooking Class (optional)
• Market Tour (optional)
• Dinner (6:30-8:30pm Meal, 4:30-7:30pm Cooking Lesson and Meal, 4-6pm Market Tour, 3-6pm Market Tour and Meal, 3:30 -7:30pm Market Tour, Cooking Lesson and Meal)
• Vegetarian Options available

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Phuket Phuket Known as the "Pearl of Thailand," Phuket offers pristine beaches, lush vegetation, traditional villages and seascapes of huge limestone pillars that rise above the turquoise waters of Phang-Nga Bay. With a culture all its own, it combines Chinese and Portuguese influences with that of indigenous ocean-going people. Phuket Town is the island’s capital located in the southeast. The architecture features the attractive Sino-Portuguese style which is reflected in the spacious residences built by wealthy Chinese tin barons as testimony to their success. Visitors come because of the glorious beaches, especially those on the west coast. Patong Beach is about a 45-minute drive from the port and offers a wide selection of watersports. Phuket still casts its spell on all who come to its shores.

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