Taste of Asia Experience – Thai Cooking classes

The Sarojin, awarded for the second year as Asia’s Leading Boutique Hotel by the World Travel Awards, is offering guests the opportunity to learn Thai cooking and culinary classes in the resort or in its picturesque surroundings.

“The Sarojin Taste of Asia” experience runs over six nights and includes cooking classes with the resort’s expert chefs, who takes guests to local markets to buy their produce before returning to prepare favourite dishes with individual tuition. This can take place at the hotel, on a river bank, in a local house or restaurant or even beside a waterfall, before the feast is enjoyed with wine and non-cooking partners.

The Takuapa River in Phang Nga province is just one of the beautiful settings where guests can enjoy their cookery classes, after travelling through the mangrove forest waterways by local ‘pleat’ boat.  After a safari style lunch and glass of wine, guests can sit back, relax and observe the locals or plunge into the cool river for a swim.

Fruit Carving: For those who are looking for something a little different The Sarojin is offering fruit carving classes, a valued part of Thailand’s heritage and one of its oldest art forms.  With individual tuition from the chef, guests learn how to decorate food dishes with fruit carvings and a variety of natural arts. Starting with the basics they create flowers from chillies and leaves from carrots, before graduating to create roses from watermelons.  They finally learn how to make their table more interesting by creating a small elephant from a green apple. Each class takes approximately 1.5 hours.

The ‘Sarojin Taste of Asia’ program is available exclusively from Elegant Resorts and Villas, available from 01 May – 31 Oct 2008, and includes:-

6 Nights accommodation for 2 people sharing a Sarojin Suite

Thai Cooking Class with Chef by Takuapa River for 2 people

Fruit Carving and Natural Art Class for 2 people

Private Seafood Barbecue Dining Experience for 2 people

Daily a la carte breakfast with sparkling wine per person

2-way airport transfer by private car to/ from Phuket Airport with refreshments

One 30 minutes spa massage per person

Complimentary Elephant Trekking Adventure for 2 people

AUD Prices $2,725.00 Per Person Twin Share Land Only. (All costs subject to alteration without notice). To book, contact Elegant Resorts on 02 8270 4850 or [email protected]

About The Sarojin: 

The Sarojin is a luxury boutique hotel, which opened its doors on 1st October 2005.  Located in Khao Lak, just one hour north of Phuket Airport, The Sarojin is a 56 room property offering plunge pools, spa pools, intimate couples baths, rainfall showers, private gardens, spa, fitness facilities, dining tables set in extraordinary locations and its own team of guides, a luxury boat and fleet of cars. 

The Sarojin is the vision of the well travelled directors of WhiteKaps Resort Co. Ltd – a registered Thai company with investors from Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK – and the concept behind this intimate hotel is that it offers an experience reminiscent of staying at friend’s private estate rather than at an international resort.  The Sarojin won “Asia’s Leading Boutique Hotel” at the World Travel Awards 2006 and 2007 and was included in Condé Nast Traveler USA’s “Hot List Hotels and Spas for 2006”.  It also won “The World Luxury Romantic Hotel 2007” at The World Luxury Hotel Awards.

For its community work, The Sarojin was awarded the “Past District Governor Sir Kenneth Fung Ping Fan – Rotary Club of Hong Kong International Service Award 2006”.  The Sarojin has established “The Sarojin Khao Lak Community Fund” and 100% of the fund will be distributed to community projects in the Khao Lak area.  Projects include fishing boats; housing; Red Cross; new school buildings; children’s play and educational equipment; and orphanage support.

For more information visit: www.sarojin.com

Report by The Mole