Cooking

One of the classic touristy things to do in northern thailand is take a cookery course. "Flight of the Gibbon" zip-lining, or tiger petting park, I ask you. No thanks. But cooking good food? Bring it on! So, clad in my sleek bright pink apron, I grasped the nettle.

A huge amount of fun and now dik from the chow, since we eat each of the seven dishes we prepare. Of course every ingredient you need is available locally and quite cheap, so pulling these dishes out of the bag back home will be a little tricky: challenge to Jax and EarthFair to see if the market can deliver !?

Our cooking class took place on a lush everything-grows-here smallholding far out of town, complete with water buffalo sulking in their allocated paddies. But, like home, old meets new here really well and the cooking stations looked like something out of a TV show, all glitzy, modern and equipped with the best of the best.

I will have to revisit my stance on rice from today: sticky rice and mango, prepared well, is absolutely delicious.