Cooking Class

Today my mom, her friend (Holli Rebney), and I went to a Thai cooking class to learn how to make authentic Thai food.

We were picked up at 8:30am by a songthau, who first drove us to a local market to get supplies. We explored the market learning and seeing all new things.

 Whole chicken...

Pig head...

"Help!" :(

Man cooking some bugs...yum? I did NOT try it!

One of the dishes we made was mangos and sticky rice (my favorite!!), so we got the supplies for it also.

Mangos are needed of course!

For sweet sauce on top of the mangos and sticky rice.

I learned that sticky rice is actually a totally different kind of rice! {Sticky: left, Regular: right}

Once we got everything we needed, we got back on the songthau and went to a farm where we cooked. 

When we first got to the farm we had to right away steam the rice in a bamboo pot since it takes a while. 

My mom and I switched off cooking, she started with making tom yum soup. She also made green chili, and I made cashew chicken, spring rolls, and the mangos and sticky rice.

Green chili ingredients before,

Green chili after.

Most of the things that went in the soup you couldn't eat, they were just for flavor.

While my mom cooked, I explored around the farm taking pictures, and I met a cute Chinese girl named Sophie who I played with when I wasn't cooking! (Her mom and her mom's friends were in the cooking class too.)

Starfruit tree

I took over cooking the green chili after my mom had made all the things to put into it (:

Making mangos and sticky rice

Some of the finished products!!

Can you guess what it is? (;

Tom Yum soup

I really enjoyed cooking and authentic Thai food and eating the finished products in this cooking class. They even gave us a booklet of recipes on what we made today, so I hope to be able to cook some of these things back in the states also!