Chiang Mai Day 7

Today join a full day cooking class @ Galangal Cooking Studio.
After picking up at my hostel, we were brought to their local market for a tour.
This cooking class very enjoyable, may come back again.

The food centre next to the market. Didn't found anything interesting...

Bought this coconut cake (10thb for about 6 pcs)
Sedap!

Galangal Cooking Studio
The full day course (1000thb) consist of 6 dishes including curry paste. Half day (800thb) 4 dishes. All the dishes are very good! Very happy that I join this class.

Option to choose one of  each category.

Kai Pad Med Ma (Chicken with Cashew Nut)

1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs fish sauce
1tbs thai chilli paste
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp dark soy sauce
2-3 tbs water

Onion
Carrot
Spring Onion
Chilli padi
Garlic
Mushroom elephant

Chicken in Coconut Milk
2 mushroom
1 lemongrass
1 pcs galangal
1 lime
1 spring onion
1 corriander
1/4 onion
Half tomato
2 chilli padi
2 kariff leaves

1.5tbs fish sauce
half cup coconut milk
half cup water

If Seafood in Coconut Milk
Add lime Basil, thai basil and sawtooth corriander instead of spring onion and corriander.

Spring Roll

Bought a beer form nearby convenient store.

Deep fried bananas

3 big heap tbs plain flour
1.5 big heap tbs rice flour
1tsp brown sugar
1 tsp black sesame seed
1 tsp white sesame seed
0.5tsp salt
6-8tbs water (add into the mixture till watery)

Cut 1 banana into 3 pcs.
Add bananas into the mixture and keep in fridge for at least 30mins or overnight.
Deep fried bananas and add in pandan leaves when almost half done.

Curry paste

Cumin seed
Corriander seed
Corriander root
Garlic
Galangal
Red onion
Lemongrass
Lime skin
Tumeric

Pound all ingredients together, halfway add:
1 tsp shrimp paste
1 tsp salt

Coconut mixture:
0.5 cup coconut milk
0.5 cup water

Fried indian curry powder + curry paste+ 2 tbs oil + 2 tbs coconut mixture.
Then add in chicken + 1 tbs fish sauce + 0.5 tsp palm sugar.
Let it boiled till reduce.

For Panang curry just add cumin powder instead.

With 1 chef from Belgium and another cooking coach from France together with the founder of Galangal Cooking Studio, Aoy.

Making of curry paste

Their green curry paste add lemon basil and thai basil, corriander seed which is not stated in their given recipe.

Curry for Khao Soi

palm sugar

Their green curry has a distinctive taste, likely is the lemon basil.

Pumpkin with Coconut milk

Coconut mixture:
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup water

Boiled coconut mixture.
add in 0.5 tsp sugar + 0.5 tsp palm sugar + 1 tsp salt

Roasted mung beans for the topping for pumpkin dessert. 

Woo Cafe Art Gallery
After cooking class, walk to Wat Ket district.
This cafe is very unique and beautifully set up with lots of flowers.

Wat Ket

Crossing this Chansom Memorial bridge (Khuakhaek) from Wat Ket to Chinatown.

Warrorot Market

The center pork rind is pretty nice, it has mixture of pork and rind.
Per packet 90thb.

Back to Wat Phan Whaen Massage
Tried the Tok Sen massage 200thb per hour. Thai Massage 150thb per hour.

After massage, walk out to South gate to try their street food.

Beef noodle 40thb

Coconut shake 20thb

Walk out to Ninnam main street and try out this hot and spicy soup (50thb).