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Published: October 8th 2005
It's Wednesday, it must be cooking lessons.
Today we venture into the country with TV Chef Sompon, but first a trip to the market to buy the raw ingredients. Everyone is given a shopping list and sent off to buy stuff, luckily we get birds eye chilli and onion, Team America who are also with us get stuff we've never heard of, let alone would know what it looked like. After a successful half hour we are transported to a very exclusive gated estate and the huge sprawling house of Sompon.
Lessons are taken in an outdoor kitchen. We each have a work station with huge gas burner, watch out eyebrows! Kev has lots of fun with his gas burner as it's the only one that doesn't light automatically, he stops having fun as the first flame singes the top of his head.
Our cooking lessons resemble the Generation Game, for those of you not old enough to remember, it goes something like this.
You watch the experts effortlessly craft an incredible looking meal in minutes while talking at the speed of sound, then you are whisked off to your cooking station and expected to conjour up the same incredible looking meal in half the time!
Kev was still playing with his gas burner while Scarlet had completed hers and was sitting down to eat. We managed to create a lovely array of dishes which you're more than welcome to try out when we get home, another three days of cooking still to come! (pics to follow)
Tomorrow we're off up a mountain to look at a temple, 300 steps to the summit, followed by elephant rides and a monkey village, Kev will feel right at home!
We play an interesting version of chicken in Chang Mai, you push the button for the pedestrian crossing, the green light flashes and you still have to dodge the oncoming traffic that pays no attention whatsoever to the signals. Kev swears they start speeding up when they see him crossing, it's probably 50 extra points for the fat farangs!
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Shirl
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The cooking lesson sounds great fun. Did it taste good ? We shall look forward to having a taste on your return. Elephant ride ! Bloody hell, I bet it feels high up when you are wobbling up on the eles back. Take loads of pictures. We are all realy enjoying your e mails, and look forward to more, keep it up. Shirl.