Samui Institute of Culinary Arts
Cooking school and golf is in
check today. On the menu -- Red Curry with Chicken, Flat Noodles with
Pork, and a Seafood Soup. Dad, longing to discover international
golfing heads off this morning on his own to play a fabulous course
looking over the two islands north of Samui. No doubt, a fabulous
sight. Brianne, Mom, and I decided it was time to learn to cook like a
thai. Well for Brianne it was learn to cook period. Her cooking
repertoire consists of mac & cheese, brownies, cookies, and
pancakes and well now curry, flat noodles, and tom yam soup. This girl
sure is diversified!
The cooking class was small, consisting of about 9 people.
Our adorable
lead chef giggled and informed us of how each ingredient in thai
recipes is good for your body. She went into extreme detail. Each time
she said something a tad bit strange for the dinner table she would
cover her mouth and giggle! It was absolutely hilarious. We learned
about galangal (a thai ginger), bok choy, curry, chili paste, and the
thai definition of spicy. Spicy here is america's version of a tiny
habanero pepper times 5. So we spent the morning chopping and wok-ing
it. Bri was a good sport, although we have been greatly informed that
she does not need this skill for college -- thats what the cafeteria is
for!
After cooking our extraordinary meal we were ushered to a dining room
with our prepared dishes and heaps of white rice.
Fruit Carving
I would have to say I
was not a huge fan of the flat noodles, but the curry and the tom yam
soup I would defiantly make at home! Delicious
ฆโ๋ษศฆซ๋โษฆศซฑณฆ์ศฤซฌ๋ษศฤษฏ๋โษฤซศฏ๋โณซฤ๋ฎฑษฤซ โษฤศฏซ๋ ๋ฏโษฤศฏ๋โณฎฑฤซ
๋ฏษฤฆศซ๋โ ๋ษฤซศโ๋ฏษฤฆซศ๋โ ๋ฏษฤศซโ๋ษฏฤโ๋ ๋ฤษฏ๋ณฤ?ฒฤซ (my keyboard went
haywire! Started typing in thai!)
After we had finished eating, we headed back downstairs to purchase the
few ingredients we believed to be hard to find in the US.
As we were
shopping we were approached by a white man speaking english. He asked
if we were sisters and if we would like to do some acting for a
reward. Acting... hmmm not something Bri and I would say we shine at,
but what the hell. We want to be famous thai superstars! We were
asked by this man, who in the end grew in Randolf, NJ (a town very
close to Ridgewood) to be the stars of the Samui Institute of Thai
Culinary Arts promotional video, celebrating their 10 years of
business. So here we are in Thailand strutting our stuff for the
cameras, one take, two takes, three takes, four! He wanted to get this
angle and that angle, this shot and that shot. We turned heads with
our skills! Okay, that was an over reaction, but who would have
thought we would be here doing this today. After our 30 minute acting
stint, he thanked us by gifting us with 3 thai cooking DVDs a reward of
about $50 each! You all will be able to catch this film at
http://www.sitca.net
in about 30 days. We will have debuted our acting career on the world
wide web come September. Don't worry I will send you all a reminder to
check it out!
