Wanting to make the most of my Thai experience (and who am I kidding, seriously needing to bone up on my culinary skills) I came to Chiang Mai with the hopes of taking a cooking course. And as per the wonderful Leah's recommendation, I signed up for a cooking course at the Dash Teak House and Restaurant (the broke backpacker voice in my head screaming: "I haven't spent 1200B on anything yet! That's like 5 nights accommodation!") but man am I ever happy I ignored it! End of day I actually ended up having an Ikea moment, thinking: I can't believe I only paid $40 for that, it was that good.
Noi (our amazing instructor, and Paula Boodhan's Thai twin) started our cooking lesson by giving us an in-depth guided tour of the local market, not only showing us the fruits and vegetables that make up the essence of Thai cooking, but making sure we touched, smelled and tasted many of them as well. It was 8:30am and we'd already started eating, and this was only the beginning.
Here is Noi showing us Galenka:
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