Krabi – Day Two
Fewf. All of this typing and blog posting can be exhausting. Especially when you're busy working, and trying to plan your trip to New Zealand at Christmas, and looking forward to the turkey dinner you're gonna be having on the weekend. But I digress (I like that word, digress.). These first couple pictures here are a yummy fruit plate served to us for breakfast, followed by a shot that is taken just sorta outside the open reception area where our hotel is. That green roofed building was reception. This little road is the one we walked up and down between the hotel and the beach.
Day two in Krabi was awesome. A good portion of its awesome-ness stemmed from a fairly early morning wake-up, a good breakfast, and then being picked up by the Krabi Thai Cooking School folks where we were off for a half day of Thai cooking classes. I can not recommend this mini-course enough. The lady who runs it is absolutely fantastic (Ms. Ya). She's been running the school herself (she's quite the proprietor) for about 7 years now, she went to cooking school, and has held cooking positions in a few places around the world. She's very kind, and fabulously entertaining. If you're going to be in Krabi for any reason, call her up (phone number at bottom of page) or check out her web site.
At any rate, there were only four of us that day, Carly and myself, and an older couple from Wales. We had a stellar time.
Starting off, we made Red Curry Paste, Green Curry Paste and Penaeng Curry Paste from scratch. We got to cut all the vegetables and stuff ourselves. One of Ms. Ya's favorite sayings was "Chop! Chop!". We heard that a LOT. After making the curry pastes, we got to try them out with a bit of cucumber. Very tasty. After that, we carried on with our cooking endeavors and made Fried Rice, Pad Thai, Green Curry, Red Curry, Penaeng Curry, two types of Tom Yam soup, Coconut Chicken Soup, and last but not least, Green Papaya Salad.
Wow. This was a feast. We had an amazing type and the food was superb. Definite one of the top highlights of the trip.
Once our cooking time was finished, we headed back to the hotel, and then went for another walk down into Ao Nang to browse the shops a bit, and relax on the beach. We bumped into one of the teachers that Carly works with and chatted for a bit, picked up a couple of sarong's from one of the local shops to use as beach towels, and read our books for a while.
A lady came along (chatting mostly) who wanted us to come to her shop for a massage. We'd already had enough Thai massage for the week, but that didn't stop her from going back to her shop and bringing us back some really yummy fresh pineapple. We tried to pay her some money for it, but she politely refused.
For dinner we ended up walking down to Ao Nang again and had planned on meeting two of Carly's co-worker-teachers for dinner. We ended up having Pizza. We were allowed, we'd had our Thai food allotment for the day.
After dinner we walked over to a little coffee shop for some dessert. It was 3 tiramisu's for the ladies, while I had an espresso and some gelato. A pretty uneventful, but incredibly enjoyable day.
