Monday, June 23, 2014

Thai Housewife Cooking 101 (Krabi Trip)

Those are some of the luxuries of life which we enjoy, but eventually will be forgotten in your old age. One thing that you can bring with you forever are MEMORIES. And that is why traveling to me is one of the luxuries I would like to indulge in.

And maybe...just maybe....some time in the future, i hope someone out there will find it useful.

Back in last July 2013, I went to Krabi with my buddy, Joey. You must be thinking, why went to a romantic island with buddy?!?!?! There's no special reason and it was just a spontaneous trip.We signed up a Thai cooking class with Smart Cook Thai Cookery School from Ao Nang Beach at Moo 3.

They provide a very affordable cooking course and they can even have vegetarian version! They also provided us with the ground transfer to the cooking school. This is so thoughtful. 

A selfie in their 'song teaw' (taxi truck).

A brief overview on their courses and prices:

They have their own wonderful organic farm with freshly grown ingredients.The environment was very clean too.

Before the cooking class begin, we put on the apron to make us look like a professional chef. *more like a Thai housewife*


The teacher was very patient & friendly as we do not have much experience in cooking. Nevertheless, we're trying our best to be a qualified housewife. :P

We opted the Smart Short Class which more suitable for our level to learn some Thai culinary tips. Our experienced teacher explained all the important herbs, spices and sauces used to inspire the delicious Thai flavors, such as basil, coriander, galangal ginger, kaffir line, lemon grass and etc. Then she began talking us through the preparation for our individually selected dishes and passed around the fresh herbs and ingredients, most of which were freshly picked from the farm and looked delicious…

I've learnt to grind some peppers and spices with a mortar & pestle. My ever first grinding task in my life, I must be too pampered by my mom and have never try to do this before. \(^o^)/ This was the most tiring & energy exhausting task for the entire cooking lesson.


After lots of careful preparation of our many ingredients and all the important pastes for our dishes, we were ready to get cooking in our lovely, clean open air kitchen…

Voila! Here's our masterpiece!
Delicious? I can say that we are very pleased with our 'masterpiece'!!



And finally we're graduated from the cooking school!!! 美女厨神毕业啦!!!!!
To finish the day off we were presented with a cook book of recipes for everything we cooked that day, so that we can recreate our Thai experience in our own kitchen!



I swear....You will be enlighten with the cooking experience. We’d highly recommend those who is planning a visit to Krabi enrolls in a cooking class, as learning how to make authentic Thai food on your own is a skill that will last a lifetime besides sightseeing. A must do if you love Thai food.

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Merci....XOXO