Dia 305 / Day 305 - May 3/2013

Hoy fuimos a hacer un curso de cocina de comida Tailandesa.  La instructora, Embee, nos llevo al mercado donde aprendimos un poco de los ingredientes necesarios para este tipo de comida.

Salimos del mercado y despues de 40 minutos en carro llegamos a una finca donde tienen sembrados de casi todas las plantas y vegetales necesarios para cocinar comida Tailandesa.  Estuvimos recorriendo la huerta y aprendiendo sobre las yerbas aromaticas que le hechan a los diferentes platos.

Luego empezamos a cocinar, cada persona seleccionaba los platos que queria cocinar de acuerdo a sus preferencias.  Todos los platos nos quedaron deliciosos y quedamos super llenos porque no hicimos sino comer todo el dia.  Embee es todo un personaje y nos hizo reir todo el dia.

En la tarde regresamos a Chian Mai y nos fuimos con Nicolet, una holandesa que conocimos en el curso de cocina, a conseguir hotel, pues nos hecharon de donde estabamos porque no les compramos ningun tour a ellos… nos dijeron que el hotel estaba lleno, pero se podia ver que ni la mitad de las piezas estaban ocupadas.  Otros viajeros nos dijeron que sabian de esos comentarios antes de venir al hotel, parece que en Tripadvisor.com hay bastante documentacion a cerca de su comportamiento con huespedes que no compran tours con el.

Afortunadamente no es temporada alta y encontramos un lugar bastante bueno para quedarnos, lastimosamente no tiene piscina como el otro. 

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Today we went for a Thai food cooking course.  The instructor, Embee, took us to the local market where we learned a bit about the ingredients required for this type of food.

We left the market and after 40 minutes by car we arrived at a farm where they have plantations of almost all the plants and vegetables required to cook Thai food.  We went around the plantations and learned about the herbs they put in Thai food.

We then started cooking, each of us selected the dishes to cook according to preference.  All the dishes tasted very good and by the end of the day we were very full, we did not stop eating all day… we even took food tack with us.  Embee is quite the character; she made us laugh all day.

In the afternoon we went back to Chiang Mai.  We went with Nicole, a Dutch woman we met in the cooking course, to find another place to stay.  The owner of the guest house we are staying told us that it was full and we could not stay any longer… this is not true, we could see that at least half of the rooms are empty; however we have not bought any tours from him and he is upset with that so he asked us to leave.  We later learned through other people that this behaviour is well documented in Tripadvisor and other review websites.

Fortunately it is not high season and we found a decent place to stay but it does not have a swimming pool like the other one.

Mercado, Bangkok, Tailandia
Market, Bangkok, Thailand

Mercado, Bangkok, Tailandia
Market, Bangkok, Thailand

Mercado, Bangkok, Tailandia
Market, Bangkok, Thailand

Mercado, Bangkok, Tailandia
Market, Bangkok, Thailand

Cocina, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Kitchen, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Huerta, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cocinando, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Cooking, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Sopa de pollo con leche de coco, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Chicken coconut soup, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Sopa Tailandesa, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Thai soup, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cocinando, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Cooking, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cocinando, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Cooking, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Curry rojo y pollo con albahaca, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Red curry and chicken with basil, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Curry amarillo y pollo con nueces, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Yellow curry and chicken with cashew nuts, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Haciendo lumpias, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Making spring rolls, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cocinando, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Cooking, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Alumnos de la clase de cocina y Embee, Chiang Mai, Tailandia
Students at the cooking class and Embee, Chiang Mai, Thailand