I'm off to see the wizard

Happy New years

Well yesterday I had a wikkid thai cooking class, not that I'll be able to recreate those great dishes I had yesterday but it was just so much fun all day. It started off at 8am when I'm sitting in the restaurant having breakfast and these two large older ladies walk by and the women working there tells me they are in my cooking class. When I signed up the day before I was told 3 other people had also signed up and the other one was a German guy. So I started talking to these ladies and they are hilarious, whinny and annoying and nosy as can be but I just had to laugh. So around 9 we are meeting up at the front and I see a group of 5 other people, and luckily they were all on the course to so a sense of relief washed over me. We got into the pick up to go to the market and one of the ladies first can't get in and then as soon as she does shes going person to person introducing herself and her sister is sitting there hacking up a lung. We get to the market and its really busy and they takes us to a bunch of stand showing us the different fruits and veggies and letting us try some different foods that were all really good. At one point one of the older sisters gets lost and we kept on going without her until her sister noticed she was missing and then left to find her without telling anyone. Luckily someone saw her leave and then the ladies leading the course chased her down. One of the guys in the group made a comment about how it wouldn't be too hard to find her in the crowd but it took them a few minutes. It was good fun in the market b/c both of the ladies leading us were joking around a lot and just tones of fun. I think our market tour got cut short after losing the big sister but it was so busy there and one of the ladies kept yelling us to watch our bums b/c cars would drive right down the middle of the busy market. We went back to the cooking school and had some tea and coffee and chatted for a bit before making some green curry. They had all the ingredients set out for us and then we just chopped everything up and started pounding away in the mortar. They warned us to be carful b/c sometimes it flies out and then you get "spicy eye" and not to long after that one of the instructors got some in here and started laughing and saying she had spicy eye. I had a close call but luckily it hit me right above the eyebrow. After the paste was done we made some sticky rice and sweet coconut thing for dessert to be enjoyed with Mango, which surpisingly was really really good. Then we made our green curry chicken and sweet and sour chicken. It was really easy to make these dishes but they already set everything out in cups for us so we just added things when they yelled at us to. The older of the two instructors called everyone "mister" and gave people the funniest looks when they did something wrong. After making those two dishes we had lunch altho I was still full from all the stuff I had at the market but the food was so good I ate a tonne. After lunch I could barely move and luckily they gave us half an hour to sit around b/c if I had to cook again right then I would have lost my lunch for sure. After lunch we made some great phad thai and then the best part of the day was the spring rolls. I was so impressed at how they turned out altho I doubt I could redo it at home it was still so cool and they were so good. I don't know how I ate more but I had half of my phad thai and two of the spring rolls. The last dish we made was tom yun gon (spicy shrimp soup), which I've never liked the taste of but it turned out really good and I just picked out the shrimp. After that I went back to my room to sleep off all the food. Also all the food we didn't' eat they packed up for us to take back to the guest house with us so we could reheat it later. Around 7 I met up with on of the couples for dinner and had the rest of my phat thai and my spring rolls. The German guy came down a bit later and we all went to watch some muay thai together. It was lots of fun but most of the fights were kids, and they kicked the crap out of each other. It was crazy to watch these little guys fighting but the most entertaining part was the crowd yelling. When ever the guy they were cheering for got a good hit they would yell "Oye" so when they boxers were trading shots you'd hear oye, oye back and forth across the stadium like the crowd was having a yelling match. All in all yesterday was a full day of hilarious entertainment and tonnes of good laughs.

posted by Brandon Share @ 10:38 AM