Up early to meet @ 9.45am at the restaurant "Tamnak Laos" meaning the three elephants. This is a restaurant that is run by a local Laos family who also run the Cooking School with proceeds going to help the local orphanage. We met our teachers and learned there would be only three of us in the class today. We climbed into a tuktuk and headed to Phousi Market with our teachers for ingrediants. We saw tonnes of chillies, yams, baby asian aubergines,galangal (bit like ginger),lemongrass, tamarind, fruits, rice (sticky, plain and purple) and also the famous Laos padak sauce (smelly fish sauce made from bits of fish; mainly the head). Back to the restaurant we watched our teachers make two dishes and then it was our turn at the masterchef style stations! We were told to
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