Tingly Thai Cooking School

You cook here. That's the point. This isn't a chef demonstrating from behind a counter while you take photos of a wok you never touch. You're at the station, knife in hand, working through classic Thai dishes with an instructor close enough to correct your technique as you go.

Class sizes stay small, which is what makes it work for solo travelers as much as couples and little groups. No experience needed. The teaching is pitched so a complete beginner can keep up, and the recipes are chosen because you stand a fair chance of making them again in a kitchen back home rather than staring at an ingredient list you'll never source. If you've done one of the big factory-style classes elsewhere in Bangkok and found it thin, this is the opposite end of the scale.

The school sits on a small soi off Suriyawong in Bang Rak, easy enough to reach from Silom.