Our 3rd day of adventure in Chiangmai - cooking class!
And for our first cooking class together, Nadine and I wore matching tie-dye shirts that we both bought from the night market.
We started the class with a trip to the market, to look at the fresh produce and ingredients that are typically used in Thai food.
There were so many other cooking schools doing the same thing. Thankfully, our school did not make us wear ridiculous aprons or hats to the market!
It was interesting that within the old-fashioned wet market, there were a few hip and happening stalls selling Italian coffee and milkshakes. So entrepreneurial of these young people to set up stalls in the market!
After the market, it's off to the cooking school for our lessons!
Nadine was the most excited of all the kids about the cooking class. She cut, pounded and cooked enthusiastically, and was so proud of her dishes, even though she enjoyed cooking them more than eating them.
Aaron was totally not into the class at all. He stood with Daddy for the first 10 min, and then got bored, and had to be entertained by Minecraft/Pixelgun.
The teachers were all young undergrads or recent university grads. They love cooking, and were working in the school to early extra bucks. So clever of the school to employ these young and energetic girls!
Cooking was made easy because all the ingredients were prepared, and potions were allocated to each student. So it was very fail-safe, and certainly made us feel like we really can cook very nice Thai food! Even Daddy felt so!
We ate what we cooked for lunch, and were absolutely satisfied, and stuffed. So much so that come dinner time, we were still not hungry.
For our last night in Chiangmai, we visited the Ploen Rudee Night Market, a food park with different international cuisines cum night bazaar that even had henna art and tarot card reading.
Aaron's favourite food at the night market - fancy ice-cream.
All in all, Chiangmai was very pleasant and enjoyable. Weather wasn't as cool as we'd expected, but the people and places were nice and not as crowded as Bangkok. Most importantly, there were a good mix of activities for adults and kids. Massages were cheap and good, and we had 1 everyday, even the kids!
Might come back again!
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