One of our favourite SE Asia experiences was Yui's cooking class. It was fun, personal, interactive, delicious, and gave us great insight into one local's passion for food, education and environmentalism.

Not only was it extremely well organized and hands down the best food we ate during our three weeks in SE Asia, conversing with Yui was an unexpected bonus. She is so genuine and sweet in wanting to make a change and very articulately discussed a variety of topics with us all throughout the day.

Her family run business (she runs the classes and her husband drives and designs all the promotional material) deserves all the praise that everyone here has given and I can guarantee that you won't be disappointed!!!!

My husband and I went on 'A Lot of Thai' cookery course because we had read the recommendations on Trip Advisor. We weren't disappointed!
Yui, our teacher, spoke excellent English and taught us all about the ingredients for Thai cookery. She advised us about what ingredients we would be able to buy in our home countries and offered substitutes for ingredients that would be hard to find.
We were taught how to make each dish, and sampled Yui's excellent food before being let loose on our woks to create our own dishes.
Yui advised us how to alter the recipes to suit our own taste and after we had cooked each dish, we ate it! After cooking six different recipes we were really full, so don't worry about eating before you go!!
The trip to the market to see the huge range of food available to Chiang Mai cooks was great. I just wish that we had that choice in our local market!
As soon as we get over the jet-lag, John and I will be trying out the recipes Yui gave us in her beautiful cookery book.
If you go to Chiang Mai don't miss this wonderful experience.

Small class sizes in the coutryard of a family home.
A patient instructor with a wicked sense of humour.
One of the first in Chiang Mai to compile a cookbook and website.
So much food, you will be stuffed by mid-afternoon.

Fantastic way to spend the day!

I have to admit, I was wary of doing a cooking class during the trip. I don't cook. I can barely boil water! But the hubby was really into it, so I booked it based on some recommendations from friends, colleagues and internet research.

WOW

I sure am glad we went ahead with this. It was such a wonderful day with Yui!

I love that Yui has built such a wonderful business for herself. And I love that the class was done at her house. So personal!

Our small group of 8 seemed like the perfect size. We were picked up around 9am and dropped off around 5pm. We cooked many different dishes, and my belly was oh so very happy at the end of the day. I certainly gave myself a pat on the back for not only NOT burning the house down, but actually learning to cook some fabulous dishes. Our trip to the market after the class was smart - we wouldn't have had a clue what we were looking at if we went prior to using all the ingredients. And the cherry on top was the cookbook we got to take home with us.

It's really too bad that another local company stole Yui's ideas for their own marketing material, but I'm hoping the power of the internet sets people straight. Yui is smart, unique, creative, and has such a way about her teaching style. Thank you Yui!