Chiang Mai Day 5, cooking /eating, cooking/eating, cooking/eating, eating, eating....

Thailand is famous for food. Thai restaurants are all over the world and well loved even by those who've never set foot in country. I for my part indulged in Thai food long before I knew I'd be spending so much time in Thailand at one point. And cooking classes in the North of Thailand are famous and supposedly better (and cheaper) than the ones in Bangkok. Since we got the good package deal it would have been almost a crime not to get the cooking class. Just buying the dishes in a restaurant would almost run to the same price so great value there.
The cooking school we'll be spending the day at is called Thai Cottage and they pick us up with a Van to get to the cooking school that's in a garden of a private house in inner Chiang Mai. Nice area. From there we choose our dishes we would like to cook today and set out to a local market for grocery shopping with our little wooden baskets. Hopping around Thailand we could feel like Little Red Riding Hood buying food to satisfy the big Wolf (methaporically for the grrrrreat hunger).
It starts with an explanation of all the main ingredients used in Thai food which is incredibly helpful for me, since I've eaten all the stuff but mostly had no idea what it was. We go through the spices, veggies and other stuff and other baskets magically fill up in the meantime.
First up is a chicken coconut soup and I guess it's the best dish of the day (or maybe I was most hungry, that's possible too). On we go with Pad Thai, Spring Rolls, Green Curry Paste & Green Curry and Bananas in Coconut Sauce as dessert. Sounds delicious. Well it was!
I don't want to go into too many details on how we prepared it, for sure there's recipes online. Just making an offer.... if you feel like you would have some great Thai food prepared by yours truly, I'll be happy to oblige if you provide the proper ingredients.
Some more strolling through Chiang Mai and the markets, dinner stop (take out) for the late night flight and back 'home' to Bangkok.
I could describe all the tastes with fantastic vocubalary but if you wanna have those, you can just turn on the Food Network. Simply.... just enjoy the pictures of gloooorious Thai fooooood!