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Went to the hospital this morning, thought I would see if I had been doing a good job with dressing it myself. They confirmed it was good, this was confirmed further when they changed the dressings this morning - they didn't change the main gauze which sits on my skin and made a mess of the bandages. As I had brought my home hospital it only cost £3 rather than the £10 they usually charge. Headed out for an early lunch as I was doing the cooking course in the evening. Had my afternoon nap, alarm didn't go off but luckily woke half hour before i was due to go to the class. I had just ordered a coffee when the owner said I needed to go to the class. The cooking class is just outside my room window and is 10seconds around the corner but he insisted I hop on his scooter and he would take me. Arrived at the class and was asked if I wanted a coffee whilst we waited for the others I said yes. As the coffee from the cookery class arrived so did the hotel owner with my coffee (on a saucer!) delivered by scooter - and not a drop spilled. The cooking class was rather fun, headed to the Market and shown different rice and noodle types had a scout around. The teacher (ann) kept referring to spice as "sexy" as in - "if you put too much sexy in your food you will have sexy face and sexy bottom in the morning".
We had to decide as a group on 3 categories (starter,noodles, desert etc). No one wanted the soup section - which I did. It was very controlled cooking with Ann saying when to add things, what heat etc. For the curry section I went with the native Chiang Mai Khoaw Soi (noodle curry). With the paste Ann asked how hot, everyone else seemed really scared of the 'sexy' but as so far I have been asking everywhere for extra spice so I asked Ann for 'Thai' spice- she made a few sexy jokes and put a huge wedge of paste on my plate. I cooked the curry exactly to the teachers instructions but I was a little disappointed, little too watered down (and Ann put the water in). It still wasn't that spicy either. However that aside I did learn a few little tricks, turmeric root is good to rub on mozzy bites and how to make a spring roll. Ya get a nice little cook book at the end which includes dishes that we didn't have chance to make. When I got back the owner and a group of French folk were chilling in the outhouse bit, sat and had a beer with them and some how with my very limited knowledge of French ended up being translater for broken 'thai' English and broken 'french' English. Ended playing a dice game called Charlie and knocked a few beers back till early morn. 2 of them were married and they told me about their local tradition (place near Nantes) where you bury a coffin full of all types of booze and anything else needed for a big shindig and then on their first anniversary the dig it up and have a massive party! What a great tradition! They were a very nice bunch and enjoyable evening was had whilst stumbling through words and a lot of 'errr......how do you say?'.
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fuchsia This really made me chuckle - tried to rate it 5star but it stuck at one - sorry!