Thai Home Cooking Classes

"I guess I was a typical Balmain resident in terms of my Thai eating experiences - tried all the local Thai restaurants and had my favorites. There were a few good restaurants and many average ones. I also had tried to cook my own Thai meals but they never were as good as restaurant meals. My partner and I and 2 friends decided to attend Athita’ s cooking classes.

What a great experience it was- we had good fun, a few drinks and got our hands “dirty”, in terms of preparing the meals from scratch ie. Cutting, chopping, pounding, frying etc. Athita was an excellent teacher, applying the time honoured “discuss, demonstrate, do” technique, and then we demolished the 3 meals we had prepared. We even had enough left over for the next night.

The meals we had that night were, in my opinion, of better quality and taste than any restaurant Thai meals I have eaten in a long time."

Graham Lawson and Kere Eaton June 2009.

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"Athita taught me how to cook Thai food very well and patiently. First of all I am not a person that can cook, but now I am able to do all of the food that I did in the courses. Even how to roll Curry puff, wrapped pandan leave chicken, and make a curry paste from scratch.

I took almost the entire menu that she offered. So if you want to be able to cook Thai food, Ehm..... Incredible Thai food I would say, and then you should take one of her class... And now I just opening Thai restaurant in my home country, it is a new restaurant however I can see that my repeated customers are coming back. Thanks Athita."

Richie Lesmana, Jakarta Indonesia.

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" In April 2008, Athita catered for our son Ian’s 30th Birthday.  The food provided was beautifully presented, wide ranging in exotic flavours and textures and prepared with a very high level of professionalism. Ian eats out extensively, frequently in Thai restaurants and he pronounced this to be the best Thai food he had eaten!  Athita provided us with an extensive list to choose our menu and advised us on appropriate combinations and quantities. The serving amounts were very generous and her clean-up unobtrusive and very quick.  We are delighted to recommend Athita for the provision of high quality, good value Thai food. "

Jocelyn & Gordon Mackenzie, Heathcote, NSW, March 2009.

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"A friend and I enrolled in one of Athita's Traditional Thai cooking classes. It was a hands-on class which was lots of fun. Despite being 'all thumbs' I managed to stuff chicken wings and even make banana leaf cups for the fish curry, thanks to Athita's patience. Although cooking the traditional Thai way is labour intensive it is well worth the effort as the result is a delicious meal such as you will never get in your local Thai take-away. One of my favourites is Tom Kha Kai which is quick and easy and makes a tasty light meal. If you want to learn real Thai cooking you can't go past Athita's lessons."

Hazel Barker.