May Kaidee's Vegetarian Cooking School Bangkok

What vacation is complete without indulging in a bit of gluttony?  Absolutely none if you ask me!  And that is exactly what we got at May Kaidee's Thai Vegetarian Cooking School.  We learned how to make 14 delicious vegetarian thai dishes and this was honestly a highlight of our trip.  

May Kaidee is a charming personality and a good enough teacher to make you feel half like she thinks you're an old friend and half like she thinks you're an absolute idiot without being offensive at all... 

To be fair I've never cooked with lots of the Thai ingredients before so it was fair enough if she thought I was a bit daft.

She educated us pretty quick though by stopping at a spring roll factory (which was basically one woman with a hot pan and some dough) and then a little market shopping for galangal, lemon grass, and kaffir limes.

The group consisted of a couple international teachers (Canadian and American) and a UN worker.  

Pretty interesting group of people.

All cooking was done in a basic open air kitchen... 

And they have everything sliced and diced already so it was pretty easy.

This was Tom Kha Soup I think.. whatever it was it was unbelievably delicious.... 

We were pretty sweaty since we were cooking over an open flame in 90 degree heat.... 

Somehow the Thai ladies don't seem to have a problem with this.

I felt like such a huge sweaty beast compared to them the whole trip.

Also good to note: Apparently Thai herbs give you a "pleasing body odor."

Nom nom.

This is Som Tom aka green papaya salad and was one of my fave Thai dishes... 

May Kaidee apparently liked dancing, which was cool with me because I love dancing. 

So she showed us some of her moves...

You know, as people usually do after eating 14 dishes.

And even Nick joined in!!

I would put this on the must do list for any epicurean travelling to Bangkok.

Delicious and fun! Yay!

ps.  Delicious in thai is "Aroy" - definitely my favorite Thai word.

pss. I only learned like 3 Thai words.