Thai Cooking Class on Thanksgiving

I’m salivating just thinking about this class we took on our second day in Chiang Mai! For those of you back home, we observed the Thanksgiving holiday accordingly by cooking up a feast with an independent cooking school. Since I’m not entirely domesticated myself, I though this class could perhaps strike more interest in cooking at home more and eventually impress some of you!

I was really excited to take this class because Thai food has become one of my favorite foods to eat. I’ve come to appreciate some of the spiciness when my stomach and sensitive pallet allows me to and just taste of SE Asian fusions.

The classes were operating on full day and half-day schedules. Running on a schedule, The full-day schedule wasn’t very attractive to us since we wanted to see Doi Suthep Temple (the highest temple in Chiang Mai that overlooks the city) during the sunset and to finally figure out the logistics to our next destination. There were 2 other people taking a class with us (they were there much earlier for the full-day). One guy was on day 2 of 3 cooking class. He said that he enjoyed it so much the first day that he decided to extend it to 2 additional days of cooking. I can’t blame him because as soon as we started cooking and started to smell our food, I knew I would probably devour my creations.

During this class, we were able to learn how to cook a selection of Thai dishes from a list of 12 items, 3 of which were desserts! I chose to cook the Green Curry with chicken and eggplant, Pad Thai with shrimp, Grilled Fish salad and Fried Bananas with ice cream. Turns out, the half-day was exactly enough for us. I was stuffed when we were done eating!

Here are a few of pictures:

Grilled fish salad

Fried bananas with ice cream