TCDC, pad thai, and tom yam
Trip Start
Jun 12, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 01, 2006
Bangkok,
Thailand
Thursday, July 27, 2006
on tue i went to the TCDC - thailand creative & design center (www.tcdc.or.th
).... "One of the largest design resource centers in Asia, TCDC
Resource Center, where over 15,000 design-related books and journals
are brought together." we spent some time there, miss bee worked, and i
surfed and looked at books. later she reserved us one of their
screening rooms. this round room with black curtains and a fancy couch,
and big flat screen tv!(and dvd, and sound system) our very private
screening room.. they had a great selection of dvd's, and we picked
Amores Perros (good movie btw)(mexican).
today (wed) i took a thai
vegetarian cooking class. we started by going to the local market to by
our ingrediants. then we went back to our class and started to cook. we
made tom yam soup (and then made it into tom kah soup by adding more
coconut milk to it), Isaan, fried veggies with ginger, fried veggies
with cashew nuts, pad thai, peanut sauce, fresh spring rolls, massaman,
penang curry, green thai curry, red pineapple curry, pumpkin hummus,
green papaya salad, and for desert black and white sticky rice with
mango, banana, and coconut milk!!!!!!!!!
the class was great. it was
only me, bee, a guy from canada, and a couple from holland. May Kaidee
the teacher is this small skinny girl with tons of energy, she sang and
danced to us.. then at the end of the class she showed us a board with
pics of herself 10-12 years ago when she was un-vegetarian and
overweight. LOL. then we all got dimplomas.. now i can open my own thai
vegetarian restaurant in vegas. think it will work?
at midnight i
left here to go pick up my bro at the airport. i took a taxi, as soon
as i got in the driver asked "how much?", so i said "how much what?"
so
he showed me 3 fingers to sign 300 baht for the ride to the airport...
i said no.......put the meter on. we got to the airport and i only had
to pay 180 baht. YOU CANT TRICK ME!!!!
anyway, my brother arrived,
and we went back to bee's place to sleep. today we change a host, and
go to stay with another guy that can host us both.
its 8:41 am now
and we all woke up ready to go, ready to go where? i dont know.. prolly
eat first and then start my new adventure with my brother!
i
uploaded some videos (some dont seem to work?) and i will keep on
uploading when i can.. in the mean time enjoy the one that are up
already here:
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=MissMayas
i
also uploaded more pics into my thailand folder (you can find them at
the end of the slide show, you dont have to watch it all, you can fast
forward)
http://mayaspics.spaces.msn.com
enjoy,
talk to you all soon
Maya
