Cooking in Chiang Mai

To change things up we decided to take a cooking class in Chiang Mai. Many of our friends recommended the Thai Cooking School, which is run by a famous Thai chef who has his own TV show. The class lasted 6 hours (from 10-4pm) and we made 6 different dishes throughout the course of the day.

We had three different instructors who helped us throughout the course of the day, all very sweet Thai women. For each dish we watched the instructor cook the meal and then we took our turn...then we got to eat our food! Needless to say we were all very full!

Below are some pictures and a brief description of our dishes...

Thai hot and sour prawn soup (Tom Yam Goong) - super easy to make and oh so tasty :)

Thai Style fish cakes (Tord Man Plaa) - good, but not my favorite dish. I think I'd like this dish better if it weren't deep fried. It lost a lot of its flavor.

Green Chicken Curry (Gaeng Kheo Wan Gai) - I was pleasantly surprised with my ability to recreate this dish!

Thai Fried Noodles (Pad Thai) - surprisingly, very few of us got the sauce right for this dish...I thought my noodles were flavorless

Minced Chicken Salad (Laap Gai) - super easy to make and very tasty...probably the closest thing I've had to Thai lettuce wraps. We ate this dish with cucumbers but you could serve it with any fresh vegetable.

Water Chesnuts with sugar syrup and coconut milk - very light and refreshing. This was super easy to make and quite good!