Top Malaysia Cooking Classes

We had a fantastic time cooking with Sara. Her family were very welcoming into their home. We enjoyed picking ingredients from the garden and learning about local flavours. Sara was a great teacher and made the course really fun! We even got some local tips about what to do for the rest of our trip! Thank you Sara!

This is a true cooking class and Sara was very knowledgeable patient and attentive !! Cooking was Malaysian cuisine with herbs right from her garden. Highly recommended

This was a fantastic experience! Sara was such a patient and excellent teacher and so welcoming ! She really knows how to cook, has written cookbooks, and explains it in a way that makes it interesting and fun. The garden tour was a learning experience as well. I highly recommend this tour to anyone that wants to learn more about Malaysian cuisine and who loves to cook!

This was such an amazing experience! Sara is a fantastic host and teacher - she was easy to talk to and made all the dishes we were cooking very approachable. My husband and I had a great time and are excited to be able to cook our own Nasi Lemak at home now!

I attended Sara’s cooking class during a trip with 3 friends to Kuala Lumpur. Sara and her mother were so welcoming and made us feel right at home.Sara’s explanations during the cooking class were very clear and informative and all of the dishes (Nasi Lemak, Ayam goreng berempah, Sambal, Kerabu kacang botol, teh tarik, Ondeh ondeh) were very delicious. My personal favorite was the ondeh ondeh, a sweet desert we made with the pandan leaves Sara allowed us to pick right from her garden! Sara also gave us many helpful recommendations on where to go/what to eat and what to avoid for the rest of our stay in Kuala Lumpur. Would absolutely recommend to anybody looking for an interactive and fun cultural experience during their travels.

My husband, mother in law, father in law, and I did a market tour and cooking class with Sara and thoroughly enjoyed it. The wet market was a must do and we were able to see typical ingredients used in Malaysian dishes and also learn the history of these dishes. We had a light breakfast consisting of an assortment of foods we’d seen earlier at the wet market. Then we learnt about various herbs and even collected some in the garden in preparation for our cooking.We cooked char koay teow (fried flat rice noodles), char siu pork (roasted caramelised pork), kerabu kacang botol (four angled beans salad), sago gula melaka (sago pudding with coconut milk and palm sugar) and teh tarik (pulled tea). We loved everything we cooked and will make these recipes again at home, especially the char siu pork.Sara was very patient with us and the class ran smoothly but also felt personalised as we cooked in her family home. We all had a lot of fun. I would do another cooking class again to learn to cook new Malaysian dishes and would definitely recommend to others.

It was fun and amazing hands-on experience. I was joined with a couple from Poland with their daughter. We get to make Four Angled bean salad, Nasi Lemak, Chicken Rendang, Teh Tarik (Pulled Tea), Ondeh-Ondeh. The cooking class was held at Sara’s mother house. Her mother was friendly and welcomes all visitors with opened arms. All the ingredients were prepared and ready in the kitchen. We just do the cutting, slicing, cooking and finally eat our self-made delicious meal. Sara provides easy cooking guides, gives lots of tips how to get good ingredients, and instructions how to cook. At the end of the day, not only you leave with a filled stomach, and comes with a cooking booklet with step-by-step instructions.

My wife and I really enjoyed learning about and preparing examples of Malaysian cuisine with Sara at her family home. Sara had everything well organized and was very friendly, encouraging, and patient while she guided us through the ingredient selection and preparation. An added benefit was learning about Malaysian family and food culture.

It was so much fun cooking with Sarah and here mom and I especially liked that we where invited to cook in their actual family home and kitchen. It was hands on, practically from scratch so we walked away with not only a nice lunch of homemade Laksa and Yong tau fu but also the ability of cook these delicious treats at home for our family and friends. Thank you Sarah for a wonderful morning!

Very good experience. Sara's explanations are very clear, and every step of the teaching is very careful, and the dishes she teaches us to cook are also very delicious.

I took this cooking class with a friend. Even though I had rarely cooked before, I was able to complete a wonderful dish with her kindness. It was an amazing experience to look around the garden in her house, listen to the instructions, and harvest some of the ingredients. While cooking, she also gave me explanations about the ingredients, which helped me understand. Sharing the dishes together allowed me to get to know about the different Malay cultures, and also got good information about tourism and restaurants. Unless you feel heavily burdened by the price of the cooking class, surely this will be one of the best experiences. (btw, my friend enjoyed her advice about durian ice cream :) )

Sara is a great teacher and chef. She shares so much of her knowledge of Malaysian cooking during the class. Then she sent a follow-up email after the class with notes on cooking and shopping tips so we could focus on cooking while we were in the class. We also got a recipe booklet to take home.We made several dishes but the nasi lemak and the fried chicken were my favorites. I am so happy to have those recipes.

My teenage daughter and I had a market tour, followed by breakfast, a tour through the garden with all the spices, then cooked lunch and enjoyed the great food. We loved the whole experience and this was certainly one of the highlights of our trip. To also meet her mom and see a private house added to the unique experience.Sara was wonderful - she explained everything very well, made sure we knew what we were doing and always made sure to include my daughter. Her recipe booklet is made with a lot of love and thoughts of how we can replicate it at home.We cooked Lasi Nemak (which we wrapped into a banana leaf) with fried chicken, had fun doing the "pulled tea" and the ondeh-ondeh dessert as well as a bean salad. We had Nasi Lemak with fried chicken afterwards in a restaurant and instantly recognized that they had used less coconut milk and less spices, the chicken was just a normal fried chicken and missed the different spices. Sara's recipe definitely was much tastier!!!We can only recommend this cooking class!!!

I stumbled upon Sara's cooking class online and decided to book it as a surprise for my partner. Absolutely loved it and made it such a memorable trip for us. It's perfect for any foodie as it involves visiting the market, gardening, cooking AND eating! It's also wholesome and such a family affair, with Sara's mom and sister being a part of the experience and welcoming us into their family home.We cooked a 4-course meal: four-angled beans salad, ayam goreng, nasi lemak (even made our own sambal!) and ondeh-ondeh. All so delicious! Sara made it fun and easy to follow, even printed out recipe books for us to take home.I told my family about it afterwards, and even encouraged my brother and his young family to check it out. I can imagine my little nephew enjoying the different elements of the tour and getting his hands dirty with the ayam goreng.It's a great place to start for your time away in Kuala Lumpur, as it also helps you appreciate the local food you eat and the delicacies you see in the markets afterwards.You will love every moment of this class. Book it. :)

The cooking class was overwhelming. Sara and her mother are very nice and know a lot about traditional vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices. The market tour is a must. We tried so many different meals and treats for breakfast. The cooking part itself was interesting from cutting spices in the garden to folding banana leafs, no detail was missed. We made everything by ourselves, Sara was giving instructions or help, so you learned very much that way. Our self cooked Nasi Lemak, bean salad and onde onde was awesome! And we got a booklet with all receipts as well! If we wouldn't have made this cooking class, we didn't only missed a good cooking experience but a also missed knowledge about Malaysian tradition, too.

We were there to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday and had an absolutely fabulous time cooking with Sara! As a Singaporean, this is a familiar cuisine, but the cooking tips, interaction, and connections that we built with Sara (and her mom) were priceless. The experience of cooking in a home, as a family, was unforgettable. The entire family had a blast! My two boys (10 and 7) said "This is the best Satay we've ever had!" - these two foodies have had tons of Satay so they totally know what the are talking about!