Our first stop was the local outdoor market, where we learned the staple ingredients for most Thai dishes: coconut milk/cream, chilies, basil, lime, rice and noodles, assorted veggies and “The Sauce Trio” – fish sauce, soy sauce and oyster sauce. We picked up some fresh dragon fruit for a morning snack, and Dan got splashed by a fish waiting for the butcher’s block.
We made Coconut Chicken Soup (this is the dish that I can most see myself making regularly) , Pad Thai (I heart noodles and the sauce was yummy), Red Curry with Fish (although ours turned out more brown than red), Fried Mushrooms and Veggies (for the garnish, we cut starbursts into shitake mushrooms and made curly-cues out of green onion tips), Papaya Salad (also learned how to make a tomato peel rose for this one!) and Steamed Banana Pudding for dessert (five courses preceding this one, and I STILL ate it all).
3 comments:
Looks like tasty fun! Which cooking course did you end up doing? There are so many in Chiang Mai...
We went to Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School. I've forgotten now which place you guys used, and I can't find where we were talking about it now? We just went to the first place we saw, but one day I took a wrong turn down a side street and found, like, Cooking Class Alley or something - I have to say, the tourist industry in Thailand is doing quite well :)
http://www.thaicookeryschool.com/the_wok_restaurant.html
Wow that is a good idea...Thai food is huge here.
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