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Cooking Class in Chiang Mai - Thailand

By Cheryl
Chiang Mai is known for its great cooking classes and, even before leaving Canada, we planned on setting a day aside for this experience.  A local restaurant owner in Chiang Mai organized for us to attend his favourite class through Smile Organic Farm Cooking School.



We were picked up from our house and driven 1 hour out of the city in a 12-seater van.  It was neat to see some Thai countryside on the way.  Before leaving the city of Chiang Mai, we had a guided tour of a market and learned about new vegetables and fruit.


Upon arrival to the farm, we donned garden hats for a tour of the vegetable gardens.  We sampled and sniffed new herbs and vegetables.



We were then escorted to our cooking stations in a spacious open-air kitchen.  We each selected our own menu- a stirfry dish, a curry and a soup.  The kids chopped, fried and monitored their own meals.



Our teacher was entertaining and had a great sense of humour.  She enjoyed watching us sweat it out while grinding spices for homemade curry paste.


The best part of the day was sitting down to enjoy the food.  Chelsea ate pad thai almost every day in Chiang Mai and rated each one.  She and the other kids felt that their homemade pad thai was the best of the lot!


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