Cooking Mama Cook-Off

Today Yen and I was signed up for a Thai Cooking class for 700 baht ~ $23US. Pick us up at 9am and a few other ppl that was from Canada, Switzerland, etc. We were first taken to the market where we learn about what ingredient is put into which curry for example. Green, Red, and Panaeng curry were among the few top choices. I chose Panaeng cuz it just sounds more authentic. lol. The chef called “perm” ya that’s his name, dont make fun. Showed us from diff grains of rice, to types of vegetables and meat they use. Anyways, the course compose of selecting 3 main course, a soup, plus 3 types of dessert.  I chose Tom Yum for the soup, Stir fried Chicken w/Cashew nuts, Drunker Noodle, Panaeng Curry w/Tofu, plus the 3 desserts were banana wrapped in potato skin in egg roll form, Mango and sweet sticky rice, and Spring rolls. Oh, and we learned how to make papaya salad (super spicy) Love it!.!  The chef knew i loved spicy after my first take on the thai spice after he had made the papaya salad difficult to eat for a few guys. Everything was extremely authentic and tasted awesome. There were about 7 guys from Dublin they were freakin hilarious too. Yen made the Coconut soup instead of Tom Yum, and Pad Thai instead of my Drunker Noodle. It’s nice that we both were able to learn more since there was two of us.

The best part of the cooking class was when we got to do the stir fry dish. He got half the class doing the cooking first so the other half of the class can take pictures of them and then vice versa. Our Holland friends took some really really great pictures. Flames off the roof 🙂  The sweet sticky rice w/mango tasted excellent and it’s so easy to make too. I need to make it for friends and families upon my return. They gave us a receipe book so ingredient will be good. When we made the spring rolls, I volunteered to cook the vegetables and silver noodle for the class. The chef said that i looked professional doing it. Lol. Thanks Yen for recording the whole thing. After the class, we were both full from all the eating so we decided to go around and shop for a bit. Maybe even skip dinner. Tomorrow we’ll be heading to vietnam in the evening. Bye Bye Thailand…it was extremely fun. Thx