About Chef Taya
Great Chef
Taya is a qualified chef who studied at Wandee Culinary Arts School, a prominent Thai culinary college in Bangkok. With cooking experience covering Thailand, Melbourne, and My Thai Restaurant in Brisbane. In 2010 My Thai Kitchen the cosy Thai eatery in Milton was created. Over the past 4 years Taya has built her own outstanding culinary cooking school in Enoggera. With over 25 years of cooking experience and several businesses under her chef’s hat, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience here in these cooking classes as well as in event catering and at big food festivals throughout Brisbane.
Fun Experience
You only need to glance through Taya’s many reviews to see the fun people have. It’s often the first thing they mention. Taya has a gift for teaching to all skill levels and creating a unforgetable experience along with a full belly! You’ll be taking home more than just delicious dishes to cook though as great memories are included.
Amazing Taste
Open up your world up to these amazing Asian flavours! Taya will share her international knowledge and experience with you along your journey. No matter what your cooking skill level is, you will learn and enjoy the most mouth watering array of asian offerings. Collect recipes that you’ll be able to take home and recreate for family and friends.
Taya has enjoyed demonstrating her Thai cooking knowledge and skills on the main stage in the past 5 years at the Brisbane’s Thai Festival Southbank, and Roma Street Parklands as well at Brisbane’s Fine Foods Festival. You will find Chef Taya creating videos for her YouTube Channel, catering for 40 people on weekends and hunting down unexplored recipes and flavoursome Asian ingredients.
Working closely with her mum Busara in the kitchen at My Thai Restaurant since 1992, as well as studying at a prominent Thai culinary college in Bangkok and completing her specialty courses at Wandee Culinary School, Taya honed her natural enthusiasm and cooking instincts to become a qualified, skilled and experienced chef.
Cooking in Thailand, Melbourne and now Brisbane, she opened up her very own mouth-watering venture My Thai Kitchen in 2010-2015. My Thai Kitchen offers healthy home-style take away meals, intimate hands on cooking classes and quality Thai groceries.
As her cooking classes grew in popularity, Taya’s new exciting venture Taya Kitchen Culinary School opened in 2016. She shares her passion for food in her popular weekly Asian cooking classes with adults and kids, after all, cooking up an exotic feast is an experience to share with others.
Visit “My Thai Restaurant”
Taya invites you to My Thai Restaurant to sample the use of hot chillies, garlic, lemongrass and ginger. These hot and spicy dishes have a unique character of their own which distinguishes them from the cooking of other parts of South-East Asia. Book a table or try a take away.
Taya Kitchen Reviews
Google Reviews
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Facebook Reviews
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Tripadvisor Reviews
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Kind Words
“Hi Taya, thanks again for sharing your expertise with us. We enjoyed your class very much and now feel prepared to recreate the dishes we made. We hope to see you in the future to learn more recipes from you. Santo & Diana.”
“I had my first class last Sunday wow! I now know what an art Thai cooking is. Thank you soo much. I learnt that I am capable of cooking such spice flavoured dishes”
“I did my first class with Taya on Sunday, fantastic enjoyed it immensely, being allergic to nuts I thought it might be a problem ha what was I thinking. Taya is excellent has the morning all organised with easy to understand instructions and some really handy tips not only cooking but the best ingredients to buy and where. If I could give more than five stars I would without hesitation. Thank you Taya I will be back for more many many times.”
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