Cooking Thai food in Thailand!!!

Oct 19

Oct 19 Cooking Thai food in Thailand!!!

Thai food is amazing, so amazing that we wanted to do a cooking class in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. The cooking class that we did was organized by Asia Scenic, Thai Cooking School, Chiang Mai and we had a really good time. We were doing the class with 5 other people. When we were at the cooking school, we were able to chose which dishes we were to make. The first thing was stir fry, then a soup, after that a curry paste and the curry itself. The last thing was the famous and delicious spring roll.

After choosing the dishes we wanted to make, we looked at the cooking school’s garden, which had many spices, herbs and plants (such as ginger, pepper basil, lemon grass and turmeric). After that, we all walked to the nearby market where the cooking instructor showed us the different plants and spices the market offered.

For the stir fry, we made Pad thai and Hot basil stir fry (we had two stations for our family, Josie with my dad and me with my mom (Madeline” helped” all of us)). I cooked the Hot Basil stir fry and Josie cooked the Pad Thai. I noticed that before the actual cooking we chopped all that was needed to be chopped so that when we were cooking it was all ready for us to put in the pan. The actual cooking part was fairly quick.

For the Spring rolls, I was the one who got to cook the filling. For the frying part, we put the spring rolls in a big pan that had extremely hot oil, which quickly fried the roll. The soups that we made where Tom Kha Kai (a coconut milk soup) and Tom yum koong (hot and sour prawn soup). The curry was Khaw soi (which is actually from Chiang Mai) and Panang curry. We, of course, got to eat everything we made and it was really flavorful, fresh and delicious. My favorites were the two stir-fries!

I had an amazing time cooking and we had fun! I would recommend it to all going to Thailand. Thai food is really delicious!