Today Nads and I delved into the world of Thai cooking by going on a cookery course with a Thai lady called Angsana. We started off visiting a market to pick up all the fresh ingredients and there was so much happening, lots of colours and smells.
After that, we went to Angsana's house to prepare our food. Before we got there we had to pick three different meals from her generations-old family cookbook and we went for a chicken massaman curry and two noodle meals; pat mii gatii and the famous pad thai. It was great learning to cook authentic Thai food with someone who was actually Thai and you can see me pounding chillies ready for the curry in the photo.
I learnt lots too and before today I didn't know that if you have phad thai outside Thailand and the noodles are a reddish colour it means they have used ketchup or too much chilli paste and that means it's not been done in the authentic Thai way (The noodles should be a brownish colour because of an ingredient called tamarind). Now I can look very knowledgable next time I'm out for a Thai at home and you can too!
Did You Know?: Most people think that they should use chopsticks when eating rice meals but in Thailand that isn't the case. Thai people only use chopsticks with noodles and actually use a spoon to eat rice. Angsana said it makes Thai people laugh to see tourists thinking they're doing the proper thing when they're struggling to pick up the rice with their chopsticks!
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