If you actually want to learn to cook, then the Kasetsart University food science program is one of the best, up to the PhD level.

Basically if she hasn't filed Thai income tax regularly she won't be approved.

You'll be fine. You are following a normal tourist pattern, not viewed as trying to live here long term as a tourist.

@Klee *************

if you stay more than 90 days continuously you must report.

Before you come here apply for a type O visa based on retirement from the evisa system, if it is offered in your passport country, or at the Thai embassy/consulate. It just takes bank statement showing you have the equivalent of bt800,000, and with many of them a police report. With this you get a 90 day visa, giving you enough time, with the correct visa, to get a Thai bank account. Transfer in your bt800,000+ and after it has been there for at least two months you apply for your 1 year extension in Thailand at immigration. It is the easiest visa extension to do.

To do any kind of medical work you must be licensed, the same as in the country you are from.

@Willem ***

that only applies to the initial application. For yearly extensions 12 months of direct deposits of bt40,000+ a month from an overseas source also works, as I've been doing for the last 7 years.

There is no difference between embassies, and consulates about the equivalent to bt500,000 being in a bank account. What has been seen as varying is how long different embassies want to see that cash being in your account, with most going to 3 months minimum, and a few requiring 6 months that the cash has been in your bank account. They all only accept bank accounts.

@Austin ******

the corporation should provide you with all the documentation you need for your visa application. Insurance is not one of them.

@Austin ******

ummm, from my knowledge a type B visa does not require insurance. Most legitimate companies you work for here enroll you in Thai social security, which includes health insurance. I have never heard of any insurance requirement for a type B visa