Thailand Day 9 - Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is known for their abundance of Thai Cooking classes. We opted to take "the best" one, at the Thai Cookery School. We made six dishes over the course of the day, and were able to eat them all. After course 2, everyone was already full! We made:

Thai Hot And Sour Prawn Soup (Leah and I got veggie broth and Tofu instead of the prawns)
(Tom Yam Goong)

Green Curry With Chicken - mine came out kinda grey instead of green.
(Gaeng Kheo Wan Gai)

Thai Thai Style Fish Cakes - a mix somewhere between gefilte fish and bunuelos. Don't ask. They were good though!
(Tord Man Plaa)

Fried Noodles
(Phad Thai)

Spicy Minced Chicken Salad

(Larb Gai)

Water Chestnuts With
Sugar Syrup And Coconut Milk (Tab Tim Grob)

It was actually a ton of fun minus the point where I accidentally touched my eye after slicing and cooking with chili peppers. My eye immediately turned bright red and swelled up, and it was incredibly painful. I washed it out, but it took a good hour or two to feel normal again.

Once we were done, we went back to the hostel and picked up our luggage. We hired a taxi (a pickup with seats in the bed) to drive us the 45 minute drive to the top of Doi suthep - the oldest temple and a major landmark for Chiang Mai. We climbed the 400 or so stairs to get to the top, and got to the city overlook. From there we headed to the airport and flew back to bangkok.

Upon arrival in bangkok around midnight, we took a metered taxi (always do this from the airport as the fixed rate often rip you off) to our hostel - "Suk 11" (check out the website link, the place is pretty awesome)

I will write about day 10 later tonight. We're going out now...until later!