The Best Thai Food You can Learn to Make on Vancouver Island!

Learn how to make wonderful Thai dishes like Phad Thai Noodles
at  Kallayanee’s Kitchen on McTavish Road in North Saanich.

We are open for business again!

This summer, after more than 18 months of lockdown for Kallayanee’s Kitchen, we finally hosted several private classes! We were thrilled and very enthusiastic about opening up our home again after such a long absence. But we took very serious precautions to ensure everyone’s safety.

1. Kallayanee and her husband, Ry, did not open the cooking school until they had themselves received two jabs.
2. We only accepted students who had received two vaccination jabs 

Covid Safety Precautions

We believe in safety-first for our customers and ourselves. For that reason, we will require proof of two vaccination jabs for all of our classes — at least so long as the Corona virus remains a viable threat. However, we will not require face masks or social distancing besides vaccine requirements.

This policy was overwhelmingly approved by just about everyone who asked to book a class. In two cases, students who were immune compromised asked us to assure them that everyone in the class had been fully immunized. And we did. We also limited the sizes of our classes to a maximum of 10 students.

Beyond these measures, we have not imposed any additional restrictions, like mask requirements or defined spacing limits.

Classes and Pricing

For our public classes, we charge $60 per person, plus GST, for a total of $63.00.

For our private classes, we require a minimum charge of $360.00, plus GST, for each class,. That is $60 per person for a six-person class. If you wish to host a class with fewer than six people, our price per person goes up. 

To Book Your Class

This Fall, we shall be hosting both public and private classes. We are not yet set up for online bookings, so you’ll need to book a class either by phone 250-656-1227, or send us an email message.

You can download our full class syllabus by clicking here. It includes all of our class dates and the menus we will offer on those dates.

Kallayanee (left) and her hard-working sous-chef Uta Bryce serving mango and sticky rice dessert.

Anyone can learn how to make delicious Thai food!

We host cooking classes in North Saanich, only minutes from Victoria. Join Kallayanee, a native of Thailand, as she guides you through a choice of 21 lessons featuring some of Thailand’s most popular dishes at her North Saanich home, near Sidney, and only minutes from Victoria.

You’ll learn the Thai way through hands-on experience and careful, step-by-step instruction. And no class is a prerequisite for any other class, so you can take classes in whatever order you like. Each class lasts about three hours. First you learn how to prepare and cook the food — then you get to eat it with other enthusiastic classmates!

Each cooking class is a feast to be enjoyed by all students

For each class, you’ll learn how to prepare and cook a feast of authentic Thai dishes, including noodles, curry dishes, spring rolls, seafood soups, spicy salads and much, much more. Afterwards, you get to eat and enjoy the delicious food prepared during class. You will also receive printed recipes and a list of ingredients required — both staples and special ingredients — available at many local grocery stores and Victoria’s Chinatown.

No cooking class is a prerequisite for any other

So you can take as many, or as few, classes as you wish! Satisfaction guaranteed!

Meeting and Greeting Food Fans from Everywhere!

We are proud to have been included in Flavour Trails, a wonderful community event that celebrates food producers and purveyors once every year in North Saanich. Sadly, we were not able to participate in our favourite festival during Summer 2020 or 2021.

But the summer before, dozens of people came to visit us on the Flavour Trail in North Saanich. We even met many of our neighbours who came to call and get to know us a little better. We also met many folks from much farther away — around the country and around the world — who came for a unique experience of this rural island community.

We are definitely looking forward hopefully to meeting more friends, neighbours and visitors when Flavour Trails re-opens for summer 2022!

Tyson Youell, at eight months old, is the youngest student who has ever attended Kallayanee’s Kitchen. Proud parents Matt and Heather are enthusiastic boosters of their young Foodie.

Dani Alldrick recently completed five classes at Kallayanee’s Kitchen, qualifying for a hand-made Thai apron. Congratulations, Dani!