Cambodian Cooking Course

Continuing with my trend of doing a cooking course in every country I did my Cambodian cooking course in Siem Reap. I did it at a place called "Le Tigre de Papier" and it was a super good deal because you got to pick whatever you wanted to cook from their menu and a trip to the market.

I saw a lot of interesting meats at the market. Cant really tell you what the middle one is but I was told that they were in fact meat.

Here is my favourite fruit of all time. Do you know what it is?

Lots of spices in this market, oddly packaged considering we were in a pretty local market.

This is white papaya which I havent seen before. Have you?

All sorts of different rice. We ended up getting the black sticky rice for our dessert.

When we got back all the ingredients we needed for the dishes we chose were all set up wrapped with plastic wrap along with our knives and cutting boards. I was surprised that the table wasnt wrapped as well.

We cut up all our ingredients and our chef set them all up and "now you take photo" she would say. Even if it wasnt something interesting enough she would wait until we did to move on.

Didnt take many pictures as we were cooking but I made a mango salad and a Khmer chicken with bok choy. it was super tasty. We also leant how to cut banana leaves into cups and plate decorations as you can see below

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Chiang Mai to Huay Xai

I've decided that I'm done with Thailand for now. From the hostel we signed up for a mini van to take us to Chiang Kong, the border town for Laos, and see what we could get up to there. We lucked out on the van and got the seats right at the front so we got a whole bunch of leg room. So it was Nisha, Selena, & I and then the rest of the van was filled with 8 other guys from the UK and the driver. This was one of the best road travel trips I have had so far. The driver let one of the guys plug in his ipod so we were listening to more western tunes and we had the most random conversations the whole time. Along the way the first rest stop we went to was part of a cashew nut factory. I was really surprised how big the fruit was and how small the nut you got was. Inside there was a huge room with samples of all different flavours of cashew nuts and of course i tried them all and didnt buy anything. The next stop we made was at the white temple. More in the next blog post.

Huay Xai -Laos

Huay Xai is the small town just on the other side of the Mekong from Thailand. Only 1 street of shops and 2 ports. Many homes along the water when you walk way to the right but we didnt head too far that direction. Like I said just a small tourist town where you catch your mode of transportation to the next place in Laos. All the shops sold pretty much exactly the same things. Snacks and sandwiches. Everywhere you went they were offering to sell you sandwiches for the slow boat or the bus the next day. And they all had pretty much the same 10 to choose from. We chose one that a couple owned just as you come up from the border crossing. They had about 6 different signs saying "We have sandwiches for slow boat" and "we have sandwiches for Gibbon experience". All sorts of other clever ones as well. Plus they were really nice and funny. Another thing all the shops sold was whiskey. They have lots of whiskey in Laos, special whiskey with snakes and scorpions inside the

Pai - Updated with pictures

I like Pai. (pronounced "bpai", say the b and the p together) Its a quiet little town, not very big, which is good cause I seem to get lost here a lot. It's a really interesting dynamic here. Everyone is super chill. all the locals just mozy around or hangout at their shops. There are lots of westerners (hippies) that seem to have just moved here. And then there are the tourists. Only the good ones though, none of the people who are just in Thailand to party (everyone in Bangkok). About every other store/stand that you see here is a T-shirt shop. They all have various shirts saying things like "Love is Pai" and "762 turns to Pai". Basically everything here celebrates that you made it to and are in Pai. All the restaurants and guesthouses have "Pai" in their name. "Pai Country" "Pai Love" "Pai Cabana". its really fun and everyone here jokes around. There's all the cheap hostels in the city but then in

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