We enrolled ourselves in a thai cooking class to ensure we could continue eating such tasty food back in the land of Oz. The course took place on an organic farm about 20kms out of Chiang Mai. It was extremely well run and we had a very interactive group which made things all the more fun. Our instructor for the day was a guy called Tommy, who was very informative and had a great sense of humour. First on the menu was making our own curry paste, yep that's right no more cheating by buying a jar of it! With our curry paste ready to go we then whipped up a simple yet very tasty red chicken curry. Depending on your tastebuds you could choose to add more or less chillies, mine turned out to be of the eye watering variety! Next it was Tom yam soup (a veggie soup with shrimp) which was quite effective in cooling down the curry burn. With two dishes ready to eat, we made one more each. Mara made a great papaya salad and I stayed simple with basil chicken! Then finally it was time to demolish what we had prepared. Lunchtime took an hour and no one got through all their food! After lunch everyone was a little on the sleepy side but we still had 2 dishes to finish up with. My favourite wad next, mango and sticky rice which went down a treat! Finally we had to cook up some pad Thai which ended up being our dinner later on that night. After a sleepy mini bus ride back to Sri Pat guest house we headed out in search of some Thai massage to ease our acheing feet. An extremely entertaining hour followed as we were ushered into a reclining chair on the side of the street. Our therapists were full of laughs and continued to heckle forangs (tourists) as they walked past! A solid hour on both lower legs and feet cost us a whopping 120 baht ($4 aus). Yep that's right, 4 bucks!! And it was given the thumbs up by both of use. We then floated home for a good nights sleep!
Millions of different rices at the market
Ready to go!
The start of the curry paste..
Don't burn it!
A fun day!
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