Online Siamese Culinary Masterclasses for Professional Chefs and Thai food enthusiasts

In my masterclasses, for the first time in the English language, I reveal the culinary secrets hidden in old and hard-to-find Siamese cookbooks and recipes dating from the late 19th century to modern days. 

Get unlimited access to Thaifoodmaster’s constantly growing library of prime professional masterclasses, articles, recipes and videos on Siamese culinary topics, available nowhere else in English.

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Professional Guides: Siamese Chili Relishes (น้ำพริก และ เครื่องจิ้ม), Thai Curries (แกงไทย), Thai Salads (เรื่องยำๆ) and The art of Siamese old-school menu design (สํารับอาหารไทย).

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Chiang Mai, 2026. Limited spaces.

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Practical and kitchen-tested recipes with a mix of theory, history, psychology, and Siamese culture tidbits.

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Articles and Recipes

Exotic Beef Salad (ยำเนื้อวัวพิศดาร; yam neuua wuaa phit daan)
Exotic Beef Salad (ยำเนื้อวัวพิศดาร; yam neuua wuaa phit daan)
Exotic Beef Salad featuring grilled tenderloin with daikon radish, roasted peanuts, and coconut. From Maawm Ying Soophaa's 1949 Thai royal cuisine manuscript.
Heritage: Issue Thursday, April 2, 2026
Heritage 12: Issue Thursday, April 2, 2026
This week's folios: - ไก่ซามัน (แขก) — Chicken Saman - Indian-Style (Mrs. Paan Nanthaaphiwat, 1953) - แกงเปรี้ยว (แกงแขก) — Sour Curry (Indian-Style Curry) (Mrs. Paan Nanthaaphiwat, 1953) - แกงส้มปลาหมอกับถั่วแขก — Sour Curry of Climbing Perch with Snap Beans (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - แกงจืดลูกชิ้นปลา — Clear Soup with Fish Balls (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - บะหมี่กรกฎ — Cancer Crab Egg Noodles (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - เมี่ยงถาดทอง — Miang on Golden Trays (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - ยำเล็ก — Small Salad (Ibrahim Haji Roshidin Tuan , 1933)
Clear Soup (แกงจืด; gaaeng jeuut)
Clear Soup (แกงจืด; gaaeng jeuut)
Gaaeng jeuut, a delicate clear soup with ginger, galangal, and handmade flour dumplings, finished with butter-fried shallots. From Ibrahim's 1938 Thai Muslim cookbook.
Heritage 14: Issue Thursday, April 16, 2026
Heritage 14: Issue Thursday, April 16, 2026
This week's folios: - แกงอะไรก็ได้ — Any-Which-Way Curry — Salted Beef and Dried Fish Broth Curry with Seasonal Vegetables (Mrs. Paan Nanthaaphiwat, 1953) - ชุบผักกับขนมปังทอด — Six Vegetable Broth with Fried Bread Croutons (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - มักกะโรนีผัด — Stir-Fried Macaroni (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - น้ำพริกผักต้มสำเร็จ — Completed Nam Phrik - Fermented Shrimp Paste Relish Parcels with Coconut Cream (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - ปลาอินทรีคั่ว — Dry-Fried Salted Spanish Mackerel Relish (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - หมูทอดเครื่องเทศ — Spiced Fried Pork (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933) - ข้าวตูเสวย — Royal Puffed Rice Confection (Jeeb Bunnag, 1933)
Stir-Fried Mixed Sea Crab (ผัดปูทะเลผสม; phat bpuu tha laeh pha sohm)
Stir-Fried Mixed Sea Crab (ผัดปูทะเลผสม; phat bpuu tha laeh pha sohm)
Phat bpuu tha laeh pha sohm: picked crab meat and fat stir-fried with shiitake, pork and peas in a flour-bound bone-stock sauce. Tamrap Sai Yaowapa, 1935.
Heritage page - Tamrap Sai Yaowapa (ตำหรับสายเยาวภา)
Compiled by M.R. Tuang Sanitwong (ม.ร.ว.เตื้อง สนิทวงศ์) and first printed in 1935 as the cremation volume of Princess Yaowaphaphongsanit (พระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ พระองค์เจ้าเยาวภาพงศ์สนิท), Tamrap Sai Yaowapa (ตำหรับสายเยาวภา) records 195 recipes of the royal Siamese kitchen alongside chapters on cooking terms, seasonings, food arrangement, meats, fish and vegetables. Western and Chinese methods sit beside Siamese ones throughout — consommés, double-boiled soups and sago broths entering a palace repertoire in the 1930s.
Crispy Cooked Liver (ตับสุกกรอบ; dtap sook graawp)
Crispy Cooked Liver (ตับสุกกรอบ; dtap sook graawp)
Dtap sook graawp, pork liver boiled then deep-fried in a coconut cream batter with garlic and coriander root. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.
Pork Stomach Soup (แกงกะเพาะหมู; gaaeng ga phaw muu)
Pork Stomach Soup (แกงกะเพาะหมู; gaaeng ga phaw muu)
Gaaeng ga phaw muu: pork stomach and chicken broth built in two stages with a fried coriander-root pounding. Tamrap Sai Yaowapa, 1935.
Chicken Satay (สะเต๊ะไก่; sa dteh gai)
Chicken Satay (สะเต๊ะไก่; sa dteh gai)
Sa dteh gai: chicken on sugarcane skewers with bacon, basted with cream and breadcrumbs, served with a stewed-apple dip. Tamrap Sai Yaowapa, 1935.
Extraordinary Fresh Rice Crackers (ข้าวเกรียบสดวิเศษ; khaao griiap soht wi saeht)
Extraordinary Fresh Rice Crackers (ข้าวเกรียบสดวิเศษ; khaao griiap soht wi saeht)
Khaao griiap soht wi saeht: rice porridge spread thin on a khanom khrok griddle, filled with minced prawn and kaffir lime. Gingganok, 1935.
Mandarine Orange Peel Salad (ยำผิวส้มจีน; yam phiu sohm jeen)
Mandarine Orange Peel Salad (ยำผิวส้มจีน; yam phiu sohm jeen)
Yam phiu sohm jeen features carefully prepared mandarine orange peel combined with minced shrimp and pork. From Maawm Ying Soophaa's 1949 royal Thai culinary manuscript.
Emperor's Hong Te Rice Vermicelli (หมี่ฮ่องเต้; mee haawng dteh)
Emperor's Hong Te Rice Vermicelli (หมี่ฮ่องเต้; mee haawng dteh)
Emperor's Hong Te Rice Vermicelli, a royal Thai dish combining delicate shredded chicken and crab meat over rice noodles. From Jeeb Bunnag's 1945 cookbook.
Stir-Fried Wild Duck with Salted Duck Egg Dumpling and Mustard Greens (ผัดฟองวิหคโสภณ; phat faawng wi hohk so:h phohn)
Stir-Fried Wild Duck with Salted Duck Egg Dumpling and Mustard Greens (ผัดฟองวิหคโสภณ; phat faawng wi hohk so:h phohn)
Phat faawng wi hohk so:h phohn: wild duck stir-fried with ornamental salted egg yolk dumplings in naam khlook khlik sauce. Jeeb Bunnag, 1933.
Reading Historical Recipes
How to Read Historical Recipes: A Four-Dimensional Approach to Siamese Culinary
Every chef attempting to resurrect historical Siamese recipes confronts an uncomfortable truth: perfect replication is impossible. The soil has shifted its mineral composition since the 1890s. Heritage breeds have evolved. Even water tastes different now, filtered through treatment plants rather than stored in earthenware jars perfumed with jasmine flowers and pandan leaves. Yet this impossibility becomes liberation once we reframe what recipes actually are—not fixed instructions but ranges of potential outcomes that crystallize through cooking and transform into lived experience through eating. Historical recipes require four-dimensional reading: literal, contextual, subtextual, and narrative. They answer to four governors: availability, cultural appropriateness, culinary tradition, and superstition. Understanding these frameworks reveals where creative freedom genuinely lies—in that fertile space between memory and imagination where you construct your own culinary narrative. We're not archaeologists trying to resurrect dead dishes but active participants in living traditions.
Sour Milk (Yogurt) (นมเปรี้ยว; nom bpree yao)
Sour Milk (Yogurt) (นมเปรี้ยว; nom bpree yao)
Sour Milk (Yogurt) (nom bprii yao), a cultured dairy product made by fermenting milk with tamarind paste and lime juice. From Ibrahim Haji Roshidin Tuan's 1938 Muslim cookbook.
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Siamese Culinary Legends of the Rattanakosin period

Siamese cuisine is the accumulated wisdom of cooks at every level of the society – from housewives cooking at home and caring for their families, to cooks in the temple, to the culinary masters who created elaborate dishes behind the palace walls.

In this series of short articles highlighting their lives and work, we salute and pay homage to the most prominent individuals who influenced and shaped the Siamese culinary arts bpaa ga sin (ปากะศิลป์) of the Rattanakosin Era.

These background descriptions will put into perspective the dishes we present and cook here on Thaifoodmaster and will also help you to cook Thai dishes that taste like they have a solid bond to the culture, the land and its people.

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The Spice Vault

Here you will find recipes for popular spice mixes that you can make yourself! Homemade spice blends not only taste better and cost less, but you’ll also be able to create unique spice blends based on your personal preferences. As a bonus, you’ll use spices with no preservatives or artificial colors!

For example, members can explore recipes for Chinese five-spice mix, masalas for khao soi and hang lay curries, homemade Thai curry powder, and a variety of the spice blends used in Northern and Muslim Thai cuisines.

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