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Cooking class guides

Chiang Mai has more cooking schools than anywhere else in Thailand. These guides cover prices, how the schools compare, the dishes you cook, vegetarian and vegan classes, morning or evening sessions and bringing children.

Chiang Mai Cooking Class Prices 2026: What $12 to $51 BuysWhat $12 to $51 gets you, and the extras the price leaves out.Read the guide →Best Cooking Class in Chiang Mai 2026: Farm, City or HomeFarm, city or home kitchen, and where each school really is.Read the guide →Chiang Mai Cooking Class Menu 2026: Every Dish You CookCurry paste, khao soi, Akha dishes and each school’s menu.Read the guide →Vegetarian Cooking Class Chiang Mai 2026: Vegan & AllergiesFish sauce swaps, vegan menus, gluten and allergies.Read the guide →Morning or Evening Cooking Class 2026: Chiang Mai TimingsPickup times, the market, the heat and the sunset dinner.Read the guide →Chiang Mai Cooking Class with Kids 2026: Ages & PicksMinimum ages, child rates, farm animals and safety at the wok.Read the guide →

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Popular Chiang Mai cooking classes

Booked through Viator, with hotel pickup on every class here and Free cancellation up to 24 hours before on most.

Thai and Akha Hill Tribe Cooking Class In the city ★ 5.06 hours4,722 reviewsFree cancellation

Thai and Akha Hill Tribe Cooking Class
Akha dishesOwn stationAkha coffee

A garden school five minutes' walk from the Old City's south gate, run by an Akha family. You cook Thai classics plus three dishes from the Akha hill tribe.

What's included
  • About six hours, morning with a market tour or a shorter evening class
  • Your own cooking station and a full-colour cookbook
  • Akha hill tribe coffee and tea
  • Pickup within 3 km of the city, or walk in from the south gate
  • Not included: alcoholic drinks, sold at the school
From$42per person Reserve
Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Smile Organic Farm Most booked ★ 5.06 hours21,064 reviewsFree cancellation

Half-Day Thai Cooking Class at Smile Organic Farm
Hotel pickupMarket stopRecipe e-book

The most reviewed cooking class in Chiang Mai: a market stop, a walk through the farm's herb beds, then curries, soups and pad thai cooked by your own hand.

What's included
  • About six hours door to door, morning or afternoon session
  • Pickup from hotels within 3 km of the Old City, in an air-conditioned van
  • Every ingredient, a recipe e-book and a photo album afterwards
  • Twelve guests at most, children from age 4 at a child rate
  • Not included: drinks beyond water and tips
From$27per person Reserve
Grandma's Home Farm Class with Market Visit Farm animals ★ 4.94 hours171 reviewsFree cancellation

Grandma's Home Farm Class with Market Visit
Rice fieldsFresh eggsMango sticky rice

A market visit, then a farm walk past rice fields, a mushroom hut and hens whose eggs you collect. Four dishes at your own station, mango sticky rice to finish.

What's included
  • About four hours, 9 am or 12 pm sessions
  • Pickup within 5 km of the city centre
  • Market visit, farm tour and four dishes at your own station
  • Welcome drink, water and a digital recipe book
  • Not included: alcoholic drinks and tips
From$36per person Reserve

Plan your date before you go

A market stop, the farm's herb garden and a full menu, with hotel pickup and a recipe e-book.

Check dates for the Smile Organic Farm half day