Chef LeeZ Review # 322 “Great Day With Chef LeeZ”

“Great day with Chef Leez” review # 322, 31/03/14

Reviewed March 31, 2014NEW

I went with 2 friends to the cooking school and had an amazing experience. We went for the full day and attended a local market with the chef to begin with. It was a slightly more authentic market than I was used to with only a few stalls selling produce. The chef spoke very good English and explained how to find the best products whether it was dried shrimp of garlic.

We cooked six dishes after returning from the market. The room you cook in is air conditioned and well equipped. Everything was ready and waiting for us upon our return. The food really is amazing and you can taste the difference between the food you cook here and the food in many restaurants. Everything is so fresh.

The day is really fun and the chef is really knowledgeable with any questions you might want to ask.

The only thing I would say is that they are so organised and helpful that it is almost too easy. All of the quantities you need are already prepared for you, but you do get given a recipe booklet with everything you need to know. I have already replicated the Som Tam (Papaya Salad) at home and it is delicious.

Thanks for an awesome day.

Visited March 2014

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Chef LeeZ review #320 “Brilliant Class, Brilliant Chef”

“Brilliant Class, Brilliant Chef!” Review # 320 280314

Chef LeeZ – Kids Can Cook!

Reviewed 29 March 2014     NEW 280314

Chef Leez organised a class for myself, my wife and best mate during the New Year celebrations. I was nervous about the class but needn’t have been as chef made us feel welcome and got us striaght to work! We created a full menu of delicious dishes and her sense of humour really helped the day go by easily. I really enjoyed learning how to make Massaman curry and its become something of a speciality since I got home. In addition, chef took us to the fresh food market and this was a real eye opener for the sheer range of food types from , livestock to eel via thousand year eggs. We really enjoyed this class and will definately be back next time we are in Bangkok. Absolute class!

Visited January 2014

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Chef LeeZ review #317 “Best Day in Bangkok”

 Families are welcome at Chef LeeZ! Over 300 reviews in under 3 years!

When you know how to cook you will never go hungry as food will always find you!

“”Best Day in Bangkok“”

Chef LeeZ – Kids Can Cook

Reviewed Mar 23 New

Our second time attending Chef Leez cooking class. My daughters (fifteen and twelve) and myself thoroughly enjoy our day spent there. Right out of the gates the trip to the local’smarket is so interesting.Chef Leez easy going and witty personality makes this day go by so quickly. She always pleases everyone’s special requests for certain dishes and truly enjoys teaching and seeing people recreate her recipes. It is such an interactive and great experience to share with your children.

Visited March 2014

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Chef LeeZ Review # 314 “Great Value for Great Knowledge”

“Great value for great knowledge. ”  Review #314. Over 300 reviews in under 3 Years!

Reviewed March 17, 2014 NEW

We did a day course, and were lucky enough to be the only two students.
One of us is a vegetarian and the other loves super spicy food.
Chef Leez had no problem in accommodating these and showed us both how to alter each recipe to suit our needs.
Her English was great and the team were happy and helpful.
The food tasted AMAZING.
The structure is simple and straightforward: we started with a visit to the local market, guided by chef leez. She introduced us to her philosophies on food, and showed is how to prudently acquire good clean and chemical free food from a busy Bangkok market. Worth it just for this experience. Here we (rather chef) got extra ingredients needed for our special requests (vegetarian & super spicy).

The lesson: for each dish we started with the base ingredient and prep, making coconut cream and milk, tamarind paste, and a chilli paste for the soups, curry paste for the curries. From these basics of Thai food we learnt kinetically how to mix and combine them into pretty much all Thai foods. We made and sampled three soups, four curries, two noodle dishes a salad and desert. Even though the basics were so similar we were surprised at how different the final products were.
DO NOT EAT BREAKFAST, you’ll be nearly full after the soups, with many more dishes to come, and they are that good that you will want to finish every drop.

We left with the knowledge of how to expand and adapt these basics into many more. Five stars.
The cost of 1500 Thai baht is very reasonable. Considering in other (more touristy) places like Koh Samui you can expect to pay between 1500-2000 baht and learn only two dishes, and they’re not this good.

Getting there: was easier than expected, LTS provided us with very simple and direct instructions in both English and Thai. We managed to get a tuk tuk to the door from our hotel in Chinatown for 100 baht, which we and the driver were happy with.

The lesson took four hours and we needed a nap afterward as we were so full. Highly recommended to both advanced and novice cooks.

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Chef LeeZ Student Review # 313 “Great Experience”

“Great experience”

5 Vegan gourmet Thai Cuisine Dishes

Reviewed March 12, 2014 NEW

I took 2 days of cooking classes in late February and really learned a tremendous amount about Thai cooking. Chef Lee was very personable and made the day go by all too quickly with small anecdotes on her growing up. I though the visit to the local market was a great way to start the day and I learned a lot about how to pick out the best and freshest items. The only thing that could have been better for me is if the written recipes matched what we did in class a little better. While they were helpful, they could have been more accurate and saved some furious note taking. But all in all, very well worth the time and money to go here!

Visited February 2014

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Chef LeeZ Student Review #312 “Lot’s of Fun”

“lots of fun!”

Thai Holy Basil Stir Fry

Reviewed March 11, 2014 NEW via mobile

We visited during some of the problems in Bangkok (which had no impact on us at all) so we (two couples – one in our late forties and one in their early twenties) had Chef LeeZ to ourselves for a morning cooking class. She has a very fun and witty personality and we were able to customize some requests including making vegetarian spring rolls and sticky rice with mango. Learning about the ingredients and the simplicity yet incredible flavour and aroma of some Thai standards (different soups and curries) made for a fascinating morning. Chef LeeZ also did a wonderful job of accommodating the one vegetarian in our group, so many of the dishes were done with meat or fish and again for the vegetarian version. Definitely a highlight of our trip. Chef Leez made it fun and it was a surprise to see that four hours were already over!

Chef LeeZ Review #311 “Cooking Experience That Can’t Be Beat”

“Cooking Experience That Cant Be Beat”

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Reviewed March 11, 2014 NEW

Cooking with Chef Lee was and absolutely wonderful experience. She is a genuinely friendly woman with a passion for teaching and developing the people around her. Her experience in cooking techniques and her ability to demonstrate and showcase them was exceptional; being both very precise but also cooking with flair.

I recommend Chef LeeZ cooking class to anyone who is travelling through Bangkok, Thailand looking for the most admirable cooking experiences with Thai food there is to offer.

Visited January 2014

CHef LeeZ Student T A review #310 “Fantastic Experience – Worth Every Cent”

Chef LeeZ Student review #310

“Fantastic experience – worth every cent!”

Thai Holy Basil Stir Fry

Reviewed March 6, 2014 NEW

Had great fun here learning to cook Thai food, the traditional way, completely from scratch. The entire experience was great the whole way through – from visiting the markets, to learning and tasting the differences in shop bought components to the actual stuff, to the results what cooked!

Chef is extremely passionate about teaching you how to make tasty food and the ability get the recipes online with videos well as in paper form just makes more comfortable that I’ll able reproduce at home.

Great experience, thoroughly enjoyable day.

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Chef LeeZ Student review # 307 “Brilliant Cooking CLass WIth a Personal Touch”

“briljant cooking class with a personal touch !”

5 Vegan gourmet Thai Cuisine Dishes

Reviewed February 25, 2014 NEW

This cooking class has everything ! Chef Leez is funny, charming and a very good teacher. She takes time to explain and if you have special requests…….she will put it in the programm. After some experience already in Thai cooking I really wanted to learn to cook my noodles better and learn how to make a very good sweet and sour sauce and the Kanom Thuey ( a dessert). I learned everything !!
Don’t eat much before the class………everything you cook ……..you eat it. I recommend Chef Leez for everybody who wants to learn Thai cooking.

Visited February 2014

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Chef LeeZ Review # 306 “A Chef’s Dream”

“A Chef’s Dream”

Reviewed February 23, 2014 NEW

The class was a much anticipated element of our Bangkok visit and my foodie husband enrolled well in advance. Since he does ALL the cooking I planned to go along to take pictures. We were told on arrival that only enrolled students could attend, so I was signed up, a little trepidatious about what would be required of me. In the end I had a fantastic time, as Chef Lee herself absorbed my part in a kindly subtle way. So if this sounds familiar to anyone reading this, fear not and do not miss the class. First of all, if for any reason this renown chef should choose to stop teaching her very delicious Thai cuisine, I am certain that she would have great success as a stand-up comedian. Laughter was certainly a spice of the day. We joined an international group of three other couples and set off on a field trip to the nearby market, making a brief stop to wonder at the monitor lizards sunning in the canal along the way. Without our guide we would never have guessed what emerged when we entered a narrow alley. A warren of stalls, each specializing in a product Chef Lee narrated (e.g., how the Taiwanese invented the coconut shredder for the essential Thai ingredient, what ingredient was a good or bad choice, how the cats came to enjoy preferential treatment after a flood that miraculously spared the market they frequented, and many instances of products that would never be sanctioned in a Western culture but are essential to the preparation of authentic Thai cuisine and more). The butcher’s stall was remarkable with production ongoing. Back to the school where an incredibly delicious meal was demonstrated, produced and enjoyed, in part due to the choreography of the staff who enhanced the convivial experience. Our menu of the day included the following: chili paste (hot) on toast, both clear an creamy chicken soup, pad Thai with shrimp, green and massaman curry (a name that evolved from the original Muslim adjective), papaya in a spicy vinegar preparation, polished off with mango and sticky rice. We had a phenomenal meal and a truly memorable day. For a final observation, I was curious about the roll of toilet paper at each station before we began to eat, but it was soon obvious it was there to capture the Thai food tears we all happily shed in the process.

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