Thai Cooking

Oi Cheepchaiissara's Thai Cooking Classes are designed to show you exactly how to cook a delicious and highly authentic 3-course Thai meal.

They are great fun, with plenty of hands-on participation. After preparing and cooking the meal, everyone sits down to enjoy it in comfortable surroundings, overlooking the River Colne in Colchester.

Oi will show you exactly how to use fresh Thai herbs such as lemon grass, Thai basil, coriander, ginger and galangal. The menu changes every month, so you can make a return visit and learn an entirely different set of dishes.

Examples of the dishes you can learn in these classes include Yellow Curry with Fish and Water Chestnuts (popular in the south of Thailand) and Gold Bags served with Sweet Chilli Sauce (a tasty and very decorative starter).

Although the classes are just 4 hours long, Oi packs in lots of information and provides plenty of written material to accompany the course.

Visitors to the class also have a chance to examine Oi's latest work -- a ground-breaking series of e-books for Apple's iPad, called Thai Food Secrets. These 16 e-books form a complete encyclopedia of Thai food.