After Siem Reap, we flew back to Thailand to visit Chiang Mai. Some of our friends raved about the evening cooking class at Siam Rice Thai Cookery School so we decided to give it a try.
The cooking class turned out to be the highlight of our visit to Chiang Mai. I highly recommend it, even if you are like me and hate to cook! Our teacher, Sim, picked us up at our hotel and brought us to the local market to learn about common Thai ingredients. Then he brought us to the school which is located in a home outside the city. Here is where our group cooked 5 courses together in the outdoor kitchen. Our group included 3 other really nice ladies from France (2 of whom worked in Barcelona). After cooking and we all ate together and got to know each other. It's a great way to meet new people, learn a new skill and enjoy a delicious meal.
Here are some pictures from our class:
First we went to the local market, similar to a farmer's market:
The cooking class turned out to be the highlight of our visit to Chiang Mai. I highly recommend it, even if you are like me and hate to cook! Our teacher, Sim, picked us up at our hotel and brought us to the local market to learn about common Thai ingredients. Then he brought us to the school which is located in a home outside the city. Here is where our group cooked 5 courses together in the outdoor kitchen. Our group included 3 other really nice ladies from France (2 of whom worked in Barcelona). After cooking and we all ate together and got to know each other. It's a great way to meet new people, learn a new skill and enjoy a delicious meal.
Here are some pictures from our class:
First we went to the local market, similar to a farmer's market:
Walking down the produce ailse
 Our teacher, Sim, with a common ingredient - coconut milk.  That is a lime!  Green beans |  Spice packets used to make various types of curries.  Tiniest eggplants ever  Pink eggs |
Chris spotted this spicy sausage roasting. He had some the previous day and said it was delicious.
Lots of fried stuff
Next we drove outside the city to the school and started prepping our dishes. Here is what we cooked:
| Chris' Menu Spicy Soup with Sweet Basil Drunken Noodles with Chicken Fried Holy Basil with Chicken Jungle Curry Pumpkin in Coconut Milk | Eva's Menu Hot & Creamy Soup Pad Thai with Prawns Fried Ginger with Prawns Pumpkin Curry Northern Style Coconut Sticky Rice |
Ready for the prep work!
It takes about 10-20 minutes to prep each dish and only 1 minute to actually cook it.
Chris "massaging" the noodles for the Drunken Noodles dish
Ready for some heat!
A little too much heat for our French friend!
Voilà! A rare glimpse at me cooking.
Our teacher, Sim, was quite a character. He liked to dance while he cooked and encouraged all of us to join him. Here is a video of Chris shaking his hips while he cooked his stir fry. The video is a little loud so you may want to turn down the volume before you hit play.
At the end we all got to eat our dishes and they were fantastic. My favorite were the Hot & Creamy soup and the Coconut Sticky Rice.
Enjoying our meal over a conversation in Frenglañol (French, English & Spanish)
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