The first part of the course involved a trip to the market (about one kilometer up the road) to purchase our ingredients. I wish I could also send you the smells and sounds but pictures will have to suffice!
Each person is given the recipes for all the Thai meals that the school teaches, even the meals you are not preparing on a given day. Each dish is demonstrated in a classroom by the teacher.
And then we all run to our individual cooking workstations to prepare the meal ourselves before the preparation steps fade from our feeble cooking-challenged minds:
On the first day of class, we were being shown how to prepare a particular curry dish. As the teacher was cooking the curry paste in the wok, the mist of the spicy curry began to fill the air. In the classroom, eyes were swelling, noses were sniffling, and there was coughing because those fumes can get strong. The instructor could hear what was happening and he suddenly looked up and spread his arms and said, "Welcome to Thailand!"
OK, now it is time to eat my own cooking, no time to pose for a picture, I am hungry!!!
2 comments:
Kee Baht?
How much Baht for the school?
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
Hey Andy -- we paid about 950 baht each (~29 US dollars) day -- you get some minor discounts for signing up for more days or signing up with more people at once. Since all ingredients are included in the price, you basically get two tasty meals included in that price which softens the sting a bit. On my first day I made the mistake of eating breakfast before class since I thought we might not be eating until the end, but basically there is continuous eating after about the first hour ;-) And I like the meritocratic nature of this project -- you eat exactly what you produce (modulo rice that is provided).
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