Thai Cookery School

All cooked by my own fair hand!, originally uploaded by Yacht Susannah.

SATURDAY 24 JULY 2010

There are many cookery schools in Chiang Mai, and I chose to do a course with Gap cookery school, partly because I liked everything on the menu! I was picked up at my hotel and introduced to my fellow class mates – a German woman and her son, a couple from Poland, a couple from Israel, and two friends, one from Greece and one from Tunisia, most of whom are staying at the Gap Guest House.

Our teacher, Jo, took us to the local market where he showed us the kind of ingredients we would need for our cooking, then we went to the Cookery School where we learnt how to make green curry paste from scratch, green curry chicken, stir fried chicken with cashew nut, fish soufflé, thai fish cakes, spicy and sour lemongrass soup with shrimp, spring rolls with cucumber sauce, fried noodle thai style and sticky rice with mango.

We had a break when we ate what we had cooked. Mine was very tasty, but the soup was too spicy for me – my fault for waggling the chilli in it for too long!
Guess what ‘s for dinner when I get home?

Too tired to go out, I stayed in the hotel and chatted to an English man and his Thai wife who live in England. During the conversation he mentioned that he’d had problems sleeping on the sleeper from Bangkok and then they were disturbed a couple of nights previously be someone being locked out of their room and sounds of sawing as the hotel staff broke in! I owned up that it was me!