Siem Reap · WORKSHOPS
Stone carving, lacquer, silk, pottery and rice-wine distilling — all of it taught in working studios rather than hotel function rooms. These 15 are priced by length and honest about how much you make and take home.
Cook four Khmer dishes, visit a local market, and eat your own meal with tuk-tuk pickup in this small-group Siem Reap class.
“Amazing four course meal with tour of garden with expert acknowledge of food. Guide, King Kong is funny, friendly and gave step by step help. Roll my family out, so much food.”
Cook four Khmer dishes, shop a Siem Reap market, and ride a tuk-tuk to a friendly home kitchen for $29.
“What a fantastic, fun evening we had with Kong! The menu choices were varied enough that we both had separate 4 course meals. The ingredients were fresh and local. Kong provided excellent instructions and all dishes turned out absolutely delicious! We would highly recommend joining Kong at his cooking school. This was a unique, fun and delicious experience! Thank you Kong!”
Cook Khmer classics, tour Siem Reap’s market, and eat what you make in a three-hour Paper Tiger class for $22.
“We thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Sen, our guide, and Tim, our driver, did a fantastic job from start to finish. Sen was accommodating, engaging, and had us laughing the whole time with his sharp one-liners. He made the tour not informatRead more”
Shape Khmer pottery on a traditional foot-powered wheel in Siem Reap, carve local designs, and take home a fired ceramic souvenir.
“great experience. All the staff where lovely, so helpful. highly recommend. excellent value for money too”
Learn to cook three Cambodian dishes after a local market tour, with tuk-tuk transfers, a lakeside pavilion, drinks, and recipes to take home.
“We enjoyed going to the market and making recipes that we could make once we go home. Our guide was very friendly and the class was very well organised. We also enjoyed the setting by the lake was really nice.”
Cook Khmer dishes in a rural village near Siem Reap, visit a local market and family home, and enjoy your meal beside a peaceful pond.
“Such generous and kind hosts. Sophia and Prayer knowledgeable and fun. Market visit so interesting and food and location of class stunning. Highly recommend.”
Learn Khmer cooking in Siem Reap with a market visit, Chef Dee, three dishes, hotel pickup, and a hands-on garden pavilion class.
“This is a highly recommend and excellent activity. The tutor was very knowledgeable. The kitchen was very clean. We were provided with cold water throughout the activity. Dee adapted some of the recipes to allow us to change this to vegetarian. It was most enjoyable and highly recommended. The good was delicious?”
Shape Khmer pottery on a Siem Reap wheel, learn kbach carving from local artists, and take home a fired ceramic souvenir with tuk-tuk pickup.
“Super fun experience! Met lovely people, and left with little goodies from the shop! Do it, you’ll have a blast!”
Cook three Khmer dishes, shop Siem Reap’s Old Market, and eat your work in a private 2.5-hour class for $21.50.
“I loved this class so much!! Narong took me to the market first to show me the herbs and spices and other food we were going to use before coming back and showing me at every step how to cook, even basic stuff. She was so patient despiRead more”
Tour a Siem Reap Sombai workshop, see fruit and spice infusions, taste 11 liqueurs and three jams, and shop hand-painted bottles.
“Please go visit when in Siem Reap. A lovely little shop, it's a very personalized experience to taste all their liqueurs and see the process of infusion. Plus the hand painted bottles make the best gift to bring home for friends and family!”
Learn to cook Khmer dishes in Siem Reap with chef Sokha, using your own station and ingredients in a relaxed two-and-a-half-hour class.
“A really fun learning experiencing preparing such tasty traditional food! The dishes were actually quite simple to prepare so easy to remember once you get home. The staff were a delight and very accommodating!”
Learn Khmer cooking with Dee, shop a Siem Reap market, and prepare three Cambodian dishes with pickup included for $32.
“Highly recommend this activity while in Siem Reap. Delicious food - I chose to make the fresh rice paper rolls, Somla Kits (a fish & eggplant coconut milk curry), and banana coconut milk dessert.”
Cook four Khmer dishes in a local Siem Reap home, shop a fresh market, ride a tuk-tuk, and enjoy Fish Amok for $35.
“I loved all the exchange and learning experience. I was amaized by the sens, smell of all ingredients. I am proud of myself to having my first cooking class that made me feel eager to go in depht and allow to bring all those tastes to my family.”
Make three Sombai cocktails, taste 11 fruit-infused liqueurs, and visit a Khmer house workshop in Siem Reap for $24.
“Terrific. In depth instruction on ingredients and how to treat them. One group choice of cocktail then one individual choice. The tour of Sombai afterwards was interesting.”
Learn Khmer cooking at Reveal Angkor in Siem Reap with a market visit, private chef lesson, alfresco meal, water, and certificate.
“The class offered nice flexibility as I was the only student - so I was able to prepare exactly what I preferred. Quality of ingredients was top notch and quantity was plentiful. Good pro-health precautions were taken with ample gloves, fresh Read more”
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