ABC Cooking Studio
Central World Plaza, B311, 3 rd Floor Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
If you want structured culinary technique rather than a one-off tourist cooking experience, this is the model: repeatable 2-hour classes, international passport membership if you travel across ABC's Asia network, and a curriculum that teaches you to replicate restaurant results at home. Start with a trial lesson in whichever course appeals most.
You step off the escalator at CentralWorld's third floor and the studio sits in unit B311, glass-fronted with rows of individual cooking stations visible from the corridor. ABC Cooking Studio opened in Bangkok in 2015 as the Thai outpost of a Japanese culinary education brand that began in Shizuoka in 1985 and now operates over 130 studios across Japan and 15 locations internationally.
The format is Japanese in structure and pacing. Each class runs exactly 2 hours and focuses on a single recipe or technique under one of five course tracks: Cooking (Japanese and international dishes), Bread, Cake, Wagashi (traditional Japanese confectionery), and a Kids program. You work at your own station with provided ingredients and equipment, guided by instructors who demonstrate each step before you replicate it. The courses assume no prior experience and are designed so that beginners can follow the process from prep to plating without getting lost.
What distinguishes this from casual cooking workshops is the curriculum model. ABC operates on a membership and course progression system, where each lesson builds skills that layer across subsequent classes. If you attend an ABC studio in Singapore, Hong Kong, or another city in the network, your international passport membership lets you book into their schedule as well. The teaching style prioritizes replicable home cooking technique over chef-level performance, so the recipes you learn are built to work in a standard home kitchen with accessible ingredients.
The studio operates within CentralWorld mall hours, which means 10 AM to 9 PM daily. Classes fill according to scheduled time slots and booking goes through the venue's reservation system at reserve.abc-cooking.co.th or by calling the studio directly. If you are coming from Siam BTS, the walk through the Skywalk and into CentralWorld's main atrium brings you to the escalators that lead up to the third floor, where ABC shares the level with other lifestyle and education tenants.