Chef Luke Nguyen at his restaurant, Grain, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam You can currently choose from 61 options on Cookly’s website, including an exclusive vineyard visit in the mountainous Khao Yai and a midnight tuk tuk food tour ride in Bangkok. Fancy wearing a rice hat on an organic farm, then whipping up some nasi goreng or making banana curry in a traditional Balinese house? Perhaps you can see yourself visiting a local fish market and learning how to steam fish in banana leaves. Cookly currently offers 17 cooking schools in Indonesia. Ready for a cooking class at the Silom Thai Cooking School in Bangkok? And in 2017, they’ll add locations in Europe as well. By the end of this year, they expect to add Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong to the ranks. ![]() They launched Cookly in November 2015, listing top-quality schools and other hands-on programs available in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. “I feel like there is a good hype here,” says Marleau-Rancourt. ![]() Marleau-Rancourt and Ozsanay moved there to connect with the vibrant culinary scene. We want to build a community for people who have the same interests through Cookly,” he adds.Ĭookly was founded in Thailand, as the country has quickly ascended to one of the top destinations for both tourism and food in the world. “We want to be more than just a booking site. They merged their passions and created a service for the growing gastro-tourism market. “We were able to compare flight and hotel options, but there wasn’t a booking platform for culinary activities,” says Marleau-Rancourt. ![]() ![]() Simply pick a location, book a lesson at a local cooking school and learn to whip up an authentic meal.Ĭofounders Etienne Marleau-Rancourt and Ben Ozsanay were in the hospitality industry before they met - Etienne was a chef in Montreal and Ben was a bartender in Australia, and their plan kicked off while looking for cooking classes in Asia. It’s a new website that compiles all the best cooking courses around the world in one convenient place. If you’re always looking for new ways to enjoy traveling and eating (like we are), Cookly is right up your alley. Guests at the garden at the Alila Villas Soori cooking school in Bali.
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