Courageous Kitchen is a social enterprise offering cooking classes and street food tours for tourists in Bangkok, Thailand. Proceeds cooking experience go back toward feeding, educating, and empowering the refugee communities.
Courageous Kitchen offers a plant-based Thai cooking class that includes a morning market tour and then the cooking class. The flow of events is roughly:
- Pickup near a skytrain station (at a coffee shop)
- Snack in a small local market
- Stroll in our neighborhood
- Make a Thai herbal drink
- Cook 2-3 dishes
- Go home confident and with access to our recipes guides to cook for your family
The Courageous Kitchen makes for a memorable way to learn how to prepare your favorite Thai dishes while also supporting the organization’s fantastic mission. Book easily through the site, and know that customizable tours are also available.
And if you love a good street food tour, it offers that too through Airbnb Experiences! And it’s a great tour and a fantastic way to learn the flavors of Thailand.
Why Support Courageous Kitchen?
Courageous Kitchen began in 2009 as a small Bangkok based initiative called In Search of Sanuk, which aimed to provide emergency food and housing for children and families most in need. As the project grew, food and nutrition education and support became most important to the communities the founders served. In late 2015, the project was registered in the US as tax exempt 501(c)3 under the name Courageous Kitchen Inc. In the years since, the business has grown, helping communities during the Covid-19 pandemic, and beyond.
The organization uses funds from cooking classes and its rotating range of Bangkok tourism experiences to serve marginalized communities. It provides nutrition and cooking classes for students that are funded by the tourism initiatives and support students who are at risk of poverty, malnutrition, poor education, and exploitation—basically all of the proceeds from each to make a difference in communities in need. These are some of the social initiatives at work as of 2023:
- Informal Pre-School for 3-6 year olds
- Cooking & English Classes
- Distribution of Food and Hygiene Products
- Support for Housing and Medical Emergencies