The final banquet (all our own work!)

Day 7: Thai cookery school‏

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December 16th 2012
Today we embarked upon a day course in Thai cooking. On the advice from Sherrie & James (thanks guys!) we booked onto a course at a farm. We were taken to the local market to go and learn about the ingredients - particularly types of rice, noodle and curry pastes. Then we had a 20 min drive out to the farm, a really pretty setting with a fruit and vegetable patch, chickens, geese and doves! Our in ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more