Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thai Cooking Classes
We went to see a Thai Cooking Class at the Isan house which use to be the Thaihouse 2 cooking school over on Soi 5 Suhkumvit above Foodland.
Now they have moved their Thai Cooking classes into a great refurbished villa that is right in Bangkok, but seems like it is some where else as the garden is huge and the neighborhood very quiet.
Tor the owner is quite amazing as she speaks 4 languages and is a awesome cook but more important is that she is a great teacher very patient with a fun sense of humor that is quite contagious.
This Bangkok villa is full of pictures that shows a real life Thai family including there spiritual advisors who have a shrine right by where you enter.
The garden is an on going project with little trees bushes flower beds and art work scattered about. You have the option of sitting Thai style on mats on the wood deck or you can sit at tables up to you.
After the cooking class is over you can stay and watch the dinner show if you like and see a really hot band that plays authentic Isan Music using traditional musical instruments the one that interested me was a huge multi-barreled flute like instrument that was playing most of the leads with a bass and lead guitar also playing.
3 Thai lady dancers reminiscent of Khmer Apsara’s dance in rhythm to the music and it was not hooky as these things tend to be. Well worth a night of your Bangkok vacation.
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