Review of Mandarin Oriental Thai Cooking School – Details

Address:48 Oriental Ave, Khwaeng Bang Rak, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand (Google pin)
Tel: +66 2659 9000
Website: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Bangkok

Review of Mandarin Oriental Thai Cooking School – Video Tour

The class covered lessons on how to cook two traditional Thai dishes, the wing bean salad and mock ark shells in coconut sauce. Both videos can be seen here with the infamous chef guiding you along the way:

Review of Mandarin Oriental Cooking School – Highlights

• The cooking school is accessed via the iconic Mandarin Oriental hotel in Bangkok, after arriving at the hotel, you take one of the hotel boats to cross the river. In the class there are welcome drinks and small canapés offered as you find your seat. The setting is an old style wooden building which is traditional and modern at the same time with a luxurious aura. This is easily one of the best cooking schools in Asia and one of the best experiences for tourists visiting Bangkok.
• Private classes are offered from 2-5pm and group classes from 9apm to 1pm.
• The famous Chef Nahrain entertains the class with ancestors and funny tales about the ingredients and dishes as he teaches you step by step how to prepare them. There is a large mirror over his station so you can see the exact processes and techniques used.
• When the tutorial is over you head to one of the four cooking stations to attempt to repeat what the Chef just created for yourself, to learn hands on. All the main ingredients are portioned to save time and anything that needs to be marinated or requires more time is preprepared due to time constraints for the lesson. So you are left with the fun of assembling the dishes in no time at all!
• You will leave the course with amazing memories, photos and having met one of the best chefs in Thailand.

Review of Mandarin Oriental Thai Cooking School – Things to Note

• The price is 5,900 Thai Bhat per person (approx 187 usd) so the experience is on the pricier side.

Review of Mandarin Oriental Thai Cooking School – Tips

• The school changes their curriculum and dishes every few months so check regularly to learn new dishes next time you are in Bangkok.
• Everyone is given a Mandarin Oriental cooking apron for the duration of the class and another one as a souvenir when you leave.
• If you like cooking classes check out our review of the Ritz Escoffier Cooking school in Paris, linked here.

Review of Mandarin Oriental Thai Cooking School – Photos

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Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School

The four hour pastry cooking class at the Ritz Escoffier cooking school in Paris takes place in their hotel kitchen, in a dedicated section for the cooking school. Be prepared to stand for 4 hours!

You get to experience how the best French pastry chefs perfect their skills and make croissants and pain au chocolate every morning. From scratch it takes a long time to create and only minutes to devour. The beauty of this cooking course is that everything that needs to be prepared overnight is already done, so you can learn each step, but then the prep is already done so you can move onto the next steps quickly and easily.

The Ritz Escoffier cooking school teaches you how to turn yeast, flour, butter (lots), sugar (also lots) into crispy flaky croissants. You can be sneaky and add extra chocolate to the mix as well to make yours unique.

Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – Video Highlights

Experience the school with a video review, clips with techniques from the teachers, see below:

Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – Pictures

At the end of the course, you are presented a certificate and each student gets their own box of pastries to take home. The Ritz Escoffier cooking school courses are in French but there is a translator on staff if you need help. The classes are also very small maximum about 8 people so its always intimate enough to get all the help you need to learn and have fun along the way!

Ritz Escoffier apron and cooking instructions manual. You can keep both at the end of the course as souvenirs.

The before photo of a pain au chocolate. You learn each step by step on how each is made just note you will never now know exactly how much butter actually goes into these pastries. News flash – its a lot!

Tools to create a pain au chocolat. Place chocolate, then fold, and place next chocolate strip. You can get creative and add extra chocolate as you wish or in the future other fillings such as strawberry or matcha to create some custom creations.

Place finished product on the baking tray. Everything is pre portioned to save time and keep things moving along the way. Clean and organized.

Next step to create the pastry from scratch. All the ingredients laid out: flour, milk, butter, sugar, and yeast.

Butter ready to be squashed and flattened. The butter goes into the mix, a huge amount required for any pastry.

Hand made croissants Ritz Paris style before being baked. They are placed in the oven to be cooked to crispy perfection.

The finished product! Smells so good you just want to reach out and eat one, which I did without anyone looking.

The finished pain au chocolate are flaky and crispy

Tasting our creations together as a class at the end of the course.

Take home box being created by the sous chef at the Ritz Escoffier cooking school. You can take home as many pastries as you can fit inside your box, so perfect to share with friends or family when you are back home or to give as gifts.

Review of Ritz Escoffier Cooking School – The details
Address: 15 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 43 16 30 30
Website: Ritz Escoffier

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