Thai Food
We have included a lot of food photos in our blogs recently. But now we have an entire blog dedicated to food! We are always intrigued by the food we see in the markets we visit and the street foods that we sometimes eat or just pass.
Here in Chiang Mai we attended a morning cooking class at the Siam Rice Thai Cooking School. We first went to the market where a number of the foods were identified and then were given time to look around and ask questions. At the school (which was held in a home) we were asked to choose a soup, noodle dish, and curry from the menu that we wanted to make and eat. There were six of us with one instructor (Pot). Pot was helpful, fun, and instructive. Even though sometimes there were four different dishes being made he was able to help us each chop the correct ingredient and put it together in correct order.
Ron made Hot and Sour Soup, Drunken Noodles, and Khao Soy (a popular curry here in northern Thailand). Sally Jo made Chicken Coconut Soup, Fried Glass Noodles, and Pumpkin Curry Northern Style. We also made our own curry paste to use in our curry dish. All of the food was delicious!
curry paste ingredients
In this photo are the ingredients to make curry paste. Starting at the top of the plate and going clockwise — lemon grass, shallots, ginseng, garlic, kaffir lime, galangal, tumeric, coriander stems, and in the center shrimp paste.
We ate at various restaurants — sometimes with our hosts and sometimes by ourselves. First we ate at a Middle Eastern one – took a photo of our “table” but forgot to take one when our food came. It was delicious. We also ate Pad Thai and the famous mango sticky rice, a dessert made with sticky rice, fresh mango slices, and coconut milk drizzled on it. Yum!
We have included a number of photos taken of various foods in the market and at food stalls.
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- Siam Rice Cooking School
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- lemon grass
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- sweet basil
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- long beans
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- mushrooms, chillis, galangal, eggplant, etc
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- washing hands
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- general soup ingredients
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- ingredients for coconut chicken soup
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- preparing ingredients
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- adding lime to soup
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- preparing soup
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- chicken coconut soup
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- hot and sour soup
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- chopping vegetables
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- fried glass noodles ingredients
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- frying glass noodles
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- preparing to cook
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- drunken noodles sauce
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- drunken noodles
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- fried glass noodles
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- drunken noodles
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- curry paste ingredients
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- following instructions
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- almost ready
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- curry paste
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- khao soy ingredients
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- pumpkin curry ingredients
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- cooking curry
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- finished product
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- Middle Eastern Restaurant
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- lunch spot
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- making Pad Thai
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- enjoying Pad Thai
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- 3 kinds of sticky rice
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- adding the mango
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- food stalls
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- vegetables
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- vegetables
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- fresh coconut
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- fried pork
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- blocks of blood
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- fresh bean sprouts
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- strawberries
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- mushrooms
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- dried cotton tree flower
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- snacks
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- spring rolls
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- shrimp
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- omelette with bean sprouts
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- fruit
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- roasted corn on cob
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- skewers of meat
March 10th, 2015 at 12:50 am
Mango sticky rice!!! Love it! You make me want to visit Thailand 🙂 someday….