The cooking school at Mandarin Oriental Bangkok, led by Chef Narain Kiattiyotcharoen, is an icon in town. The school has given lessons to hundreds of thousands of cooking enthusiasts from around the world since the mid 1980s. Chef Narain told me that Jay Chou had his cooking lesson at the cooking school too.
Chef Narain Kiattiyotcharoen Source
I took the BTS skytrain, got off at Sanphan Taksin station and jumped onto a shuttle boat to the cooking school. The school is across the main building Mandarin Oriental Bangkok on the other side along the River Chao Phraya
The shuttle boat taking me to the school
The school is inside a single-storey house, which is in a lush and peaceful garden.
The school is surrounded by the calm garden
A patio for restaurant goers who want outdoors dining (The school is adjacent to a Thai restaurant that can host a large crowd of people indoors and outdoors)
The school is surrounded by the calm garden
The school is surrounded by the calm garden
The school is down this corridor on the right
This is it - The Oriental Thai Cooking School
The cooking school from the outside
Cooking stations for students to practise and use
The 'lecture' hall. Front seat for me ;-)
For students not in the first row, they may have problems following the lecture. This overhead mirror is a great helper.
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Two ladies and I dined at that beautifully decorated table after the lesson. Three of us took the lesson.
Apron of the day ;-)
I am splitting the cooking lesson into three posts for easy reading. Please stay tuned on my second and third posts. Thanks for reading.
** My first post, 5 months ago, on steemit was a cooking post too Thai cooking lesson at Issaya in Bangkok. Enjoy.
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