16 Apr 2025
The tour was meant to start at 7am, got a message the night before saying we would be picked up at 8am. The driver didn't arrive until 9am.
We then drove from 1hr 30min to a 2/3 closed market. The tour was meant to include a market tour where you buy the ingredients and they demonstrate how to bargain, the driver brought some fruit and told us to walk around the very empty market.
We then drove for another hour to the cooking school. I didn't really learn anything. I chopped a few ingredients, mixed it with some chicken mince and cooked it on charcoal. My partner help make curry and soup.
We sat down for lunch which was okay. The black rice pudding was burnt (they cooked it) and inedible.
The tour was meant to include breakfast, lunch and dinner - it only included lunch.
We then drove for 2 hours back to our hotel. The cooking school part was 40min max where we mainly chopped ingredients.
The location of the school was lovely and the staff were very nice. Just not what was advertised and we pretty much wasted our whole day driving.