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71: Not Baan but Smart Thai Cookery Class

Maybe it helps having done the SmartCook Thai Cookery Class cos I seem to need it.

Completely got the days mixed up. Thought it was Thursday when it was only Tuesday and booked Baan Thai Cookery Course with the Friday Schedule in mind that had a few dishes which I was interested in.

Last night I eventually realised that it was Tuesday not Thursday and that I was going to do the Wednesday calss at Baan Thai. The dishes on that day were not what I was hoping to cook so I cancled and did a last minute sign up to the Smart Cook Thai Cookery Class who did have a better list of dishes to offer.

It was great! We were a small group of only 4 people. Two from the UK and one French-Canadian Girl. We had great fun doing the cooking, the teacher was very nice woman of 30 and the lots of us got on quite well to the extend that at times we forgot to prepare the food but kept chatting along 🙂

Overall the class was much more personal than the last one I did at the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School, partly because we were a smaller group but also because we had just one person teaching and the location was much more appealing too.

Sompons Class was at his big House outside of Chiang Mai whereas SmartCook was just around the corner from my GuestHouse in a nice traditional TeakWood House. We prepared and ate the food in the open-air front room of the house but cooked the dishes after preparation in a little room to the side of the main house where they had individual Woks setup for everyone.

The Day included a choice of following dishes (My choice marked with *):

1. Fried Noodles Thai Style (Pad Thai) or
Thai Spring Rolls (Pho Pia Thod) with Sweet Chilli Dip.*
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2. Hot & Sour Chicken Soup (Tom Yam Kai) or
Chicken in Coconut Milk (Tom Kaa Kai) *
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3. Spicy Glassnoodle Salad (Yam Woon Sen) or
Papaya Salad with Crab (Som Tam) *
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4. Fried Cashewnuts with Chicken (Kai Pat Med Ma Maung) *
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or Sweet & Sour Chicken Thai Style (Pat Priaw Waan)

5. Red, Green or Yellow Thai Curry or
Panang Curry with Chicken*
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6. Mangoes with Sweet Sticky Rice
(bother no photo either.. couldn’t wait buthad to eat it right away.. VERY VERY NICE 🙂

Recipies to follow..



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0 responses to “71: Not Baan but Smart Thai Cookery Class”

  1. rose says:

    You cheat! They’re not the ACTUAL dishes you made…

  2. admin says:

    Actually – they are all photos I took with my camera of the dishes that I cooked and ate afterwards 🙂

    Rather good wouldn’t you agree? 😀

  3. rose says:

    ok – I’ll take that back, I guess the dead give away were the pancake rolls with chilli sauce, they look errr….very hand-made. hee hee.

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