Cooking Class

Cooking school was really terrific.  This rather flamboyant Thai guy has a great setup. He only charges about $30.  he has two classes per day and travels in the off season.

You start at the market and then go to his place down alleys you would never find.  His school was an apartment with three rooms with a porch outside.  All the cooking equipment is out on the porch.  

There was a large group of 14 and there were 14 cooking stations.  We started by making fresh coconut milk from grated coconut we bought at the market.   Everyone prepped different stuff in different rooms and then we made fabulous spicy soup, Pad Thai, Chicken salad with mint,p and chicken with green curry paste with eggplants smaller then grapes. 

He showed us how to make sweet sticky rice which we had for dessert with mango.  We ate as we finished each course.  I was at least twice the age of all the others but c'est la vie.  I think I might have a next career with some kind of cooking program at my house.  I was impressed with the class in Vietnam and was even more impressed here.