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Monsoon rain again this morning- thats about 4 days now with no hot sun :-(
The free transport for the cookery course picked us up on time at like nine THIRTY. The first thing that Dave picked up on, like straight AWAY, was that the american girl sat next to us in the TAXI spoke a lot like THIS, where like, the last word of every phrase was so like, EXAGERATED and like she couldn't stop saying the word LIKE and spoke exclty how you imagine stuck up student girls from America like to SOUND! The first part of the cookery course didn't invovle kiling this girl as we had hoped...
The first hour of the course was a trip to a local market where the chef (Perm as we later found out) explained to us all about Thai food ingrediants in his very funny style involving the popular Thai description of 'Same Same but different' for pretty much everything ie 'this will keep for about 2 weeks or for about a fortnight - same same but different'
At the cookery school (not a school but actually his house!) we were all given a work station, chopping board, massive knife (the sort that you would get sent to jail for if you were caught carrying it in England), some pans some woks and utensils.
The dishes that we learnt to cook were:
Tom Yum soup
Chicken in Coconut soup
Stir fry veg
Sweet and sour chicken
Red and green curries
Pad thai
Spring rolls
Mango with stick rice
Papaya salad - the hottest thing in the world cause we put way to many chillis in!
The important Thai chef secrets we learnt:
When trying something that somebody has cooked always describe it as unbelievable - that way you could mean that it was unbelievably horrible!
You can judge how good sugar is by how many ants you find in it (the sugar we were using contained over 5 which means it was top quality)
It doesn't matter if the egg is cooked - you won't be eating it!
All in all though the dishes were all absolutley delicious - even Dave's - better than restaurant food - quite surprising really coz the main ingrediants in mostly all of the dishes tended to be fish sauce and coconut milk...yuk!
The only thing that Thai cooks need to learn is when an English person asks for something mild, their mild means blow your frigging head off hot!Be warned.
At night we ventured to the night bazaar, which is basically just 100's of market stalls selling everything, and is obviously at night.On our way back through we stopped off at a Thai boxing arena - well it wasn't really an arena, it was a semi circle of tacky bars full of white males with grey hair, all accompanied by nothing past the age of 25 Thai girls surrounding a boxing ring!We watched one fight which is basically just a street fight similar to those you find in lava/ignit but with gloves on before exiting.
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