We were then ferried to the cooking school, a short drive from Chiang Mai, in a very green and leafy suburb. There were 9 in the class and our big and bouncy teacher, Nokky, whose personality was even bigger than her bum (which was impressive).
Nokky
We started with Pad Thai (stir fried noodles with egg and tofu) which was the best we've had in the whole of Thailand. Then veg spring rolls which are much harder to roll than you'd expect. Nokky did say it was like rolling a joint and strangely all of my spring rolls were bigger at one end...! Next up was tom yam soup - a spicy but watery soup. At this point you must understand we had eaten a whole portion of each dish (4 spring rolls) in about 2 hours so were feeling nice and full.
Tom yum soup and spring rolls
After a short lull, we went on to make green curry, stir fried chicken (or prawns) with cashew nuts - which included a rather spectacular moment where the whole wok catches on fire (on purpose) and finishing off with banana in coconut cream (El) and black sticky rice pudding (Kieran).
This is supposed to happen when you make Chicken with cashew nuts (note Kieran's special spiderman apron, bought especially for the occasion)
Oh and I forgot to mention that half way through we got to try some Thai fruits - Mangosteens, Rambutan, Lychee and Langlan fruit. By this time (5 hours later) if we had eaten another wafer-thin mint we would have exploded in a most unappealing way.
It was a great day, wonderful fun with Nokky probably the funniest Thai I have met, eating and making delicious food with a fun bunch of people (including Sue and Denee from the trek).
Burp!!!
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