Chef’s studio · Seattle
Small hands-on Thai classes with Phuket-born chef Pranee in her Seattle studio
Beginners
No experience needed
Birthdays & groups
Private parties for up to 14
Team events
Team building with a chef running the room
I Love Thai Cooking is run by Pranee Khruasanit Halvorsen, who grew up in Phuket. Her mother was a village chef known for her Hua Mok fish cakes. Pranee has lived in Seattle since 1992 and teaches at Pranee's Thai Kitchen Studio on Martin Luther King Jr Way S. She also teaches at Bayview School of Cooking in Olympia, PCC Cooks and Sun Valley Culinary Institute.
Her public class is Thai Made Easy, a four-hour hands-on session for 4 to 8 people at $135. Menu A covers beef mint salad, tom kha gai, phad thai, chu chi fish curry and sticky rice mango. Menu B moves to green papaya salad, sweet and sour prawn soup, green chicken curry and banana in coconut milk. You can add a one-hour Asian market tour for $50.
Private classes start at $600 for up to four people. Groups of 8 to 14 pay $125 a head. Vegetarian and Vietnamese menus are available, and there's a dumpling party option too. Pranee teaches how to balance sweet, sour, salty and spicy, and where to shop for ingredients locally. She has a 5 rating from 14 Google reviews.
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Thai Made Easy costs $135 per person for a four-hour hands-on class at Pranee's studio.
Public classes take 4 to 8 people. Private hands-on classes can take groups of up to 14.
If you cancel more than eight days before class, you can transfer or reschedule. Inside seven days your seat can go to someone else, but you can't reschedule or get a refund.
Yes. A one-hour Asian market tour costs $50 per person and starts 2 hours before class. It can also be booked on a separate day.
Yes. There are two vegetarian menus, with dishes like tofu mushroom larb, phad thai with tofu and green curry with mushrooms. Vietnamese menus are also offered for private and market tour classes.
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