Loving Chiang Mai and Thai Cooking!

Monks in Chiang Mai

Loving Chiang Mai! This town has a village feel to it, and it's the total opposite to Bangkok; everything is done at a slower pace and life is just chilled.

Someone told me there are 3,000 temples in this town which is the same amount as in Bangkok, except the population of Chiang Mai is 150,000 compared to Bangkok, which is approximately 8.3 million. So no wonder it feels there is a temple around every corner!

Eating our own cookings!

We did a cooking course the other day up in the mountains - so much fun!! As it turns out, I'm really good at cooking Thai food! We all had to choose five dishes to cook, and I decided to make Tom Yum soup (prawns with veg and chilli), a Thai green curry, a chicken, cashew, and dried chilli stir fry, a phad thai, and to finish off a banana in coconut milk dessert. It was all amazingly delicious and we even got a recipe book to take home. The place itself was stunning; located up in the mountains surrounded by rainforest, Wowzas!

Our hilarious teacher

Our teacher was hilarious. She would make jokes and then laugh hysterically at her own wittiness. When we were in the garden learning about thai herbs, vegetable and fruit, more often than not what she would pick up from the ground was, according to her, 'good for your maaaaan! Make them strong to work in the fields harder!' (Hysterical laughter)

All in all, a fantastic experience made even better thanks to our lovely group- an Australian girl traveller from Canberra, a Canadian couple on a mission to escape the icy winter, a Dutch couple on their first holiday together, and an Australian couple who were on their way back home after a six month tout of Africa and Eastern Europe. Great stories, even better cooking!

A Treat!