BKK Day 2 Part 2 - Silom Thai Cooking School Part 2

Back to blog about my experience attending leson at Silom Thai Cooking School. I stopped at heading to the cooking school (after the market tour) the previous time. So I shall continue from where I stop :) 

You may read the Part 1 of Silom Thai Cooking School here. 

We sat on the tuk tuk and the journey was around 5-10 minutes from the market to the cooking school. It was quite a thrilling ride since it's our first time sitting in a tuk tuk. 

Upon entering the cooking school, it got us really excited with all the beautiful decorations around.

Everyone started walking around to snap pictures before the lesson starts. I can tell how much effort they did put in to make the whole experience a great one. 

I love this slogan the most. 

Vintage decorations can be seen around the classroom. 

We locked our belongings up in the locker provided by them. The key of the locker is actually attached to this funny looking doll. 

More vintage displays.

Traditional cooking tools used in cooking Thai Cuisine. 

This is where we will be cooking our dishes. It's located at the backyard. Basically, we will bring the ingredients that we prepared at another area over to this place to do the cooking. 

The place for us to enjoy our food right after we cook! 

We put on our aprons to get ready for the lesson to start. Not forgetting to take a #ootd with the chio apron haha! 

The guy behind me is from Holland! He's here with another 2 friends :)

Picture taken by our dear classmate :) 

Before we start the lesson, our teacher requested for a group pic together! All of us passed our phones to the helper, so we basically pose for at least 7-8 times lol.

Through this cooking lessom, we made friends from Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan and Holland. Seems like tourists from all around the world know about this cooking school. Anyway, when we told them we were from Singapore, for those who have visited Singapore before their reaction will be like "it's a really hot country!" hahaha! I can't help but to agree to that sentence. 

The first thing we were taught to prepare were the coconut milk. Coconut is one of the main essential ingredients in Thai cuisines.

Basically we have to retrieved the coconut milk from the coconut shavings. The coconut shavings were already done by them so what we have to do is to add water to the coconut shavings and then keep squeezing it to retrieve the milk.

The teacher showing us the traditional way of shaving the coconut. In the good old days, they have to sit on this traditional bench-looking kind of wooden chair to do it. 

Derp's doing the job.

Anyway, this process were repeated for a few times. After we were done with preparing the coconut milk, we proceed to another classroom where we prep the rest of the ingredients(those that need some chopping).

The teacher showing us the various Thai spices used in Thai dishes.

The different kinds of Thai veggies were displayed nicely on the table. 

The spices they used. 

Our first dish was Tom Yum Goong. We had some hands on experience on chopping the ingredients.

That's us prepping the ingredients! 

The ingredients for the tom yum goong. 

Surprisingly, it's so simple and only require this few ingredients only! 

No idea when Derp took this photo of me. We were on the way to the backyard with our nicely chopped ingredients. 

The wok was already filled with water when we reached there. All done up by the assistant. So all we did were simply pouring all the ingredients into the wok and turn on the stove. 

Love this shot taken by our teacher :) 

Hereby presenting to you the tom yum goong that I cook.

Very yummy and thick tom yum soup. 

Btw, we cut the chilli padi according to our preference. Depending on how spicy we want it to be, so fret not that the tom yum soup will be too spicy/not spicy.

The next dish we prepared is Stir Fried Pad Thai.  

The ingredients for the dish. 

We only need to chop the spring onion and toufu. Btw, the way the egg is presented is kind of cute! 

That's me placing the ingredients down carefully. 

Another shot taken by Derp of me looking domestic. lol.

I was cooking the ingredients at this point of time before the teacher came to add the noodles in our wok. And again, it was pouring all the ingredients into the wok and also the sauce given by them.

The complete product! 

We took some photos with our completed piece. Definitely feeling proud of it :)

The Pad Thai may not look spicy but it's actually quite spicy. We did add Thai chilli paste into it and stir fry everything together.

Next dish we prepared is the Phanaeng Curry with Chicken

The ingredients for this dish.

When we walked to our wok, it was filled with the chilli paste, oil and chicken meat. So as usual, all we had to do is to dump everything in. 

Hereby presenting to you Phanaeng Curry with Chicken

It's actually a spicy soup with chicken and some veggies inside. Best goes with rice actually lol. 

Okay this is some behind the scenes shot taken by Derp, with me looking serious trying to get the best photo. And again, I didn't know when he took this photo though.

The second last dish was the Green Curry with Chicken. 

The different kind of ingredients used to make the green curry. 

We had to actually pound different kind of spice with the traditional kind of motar.

Here's the teacher demonstrating it to us before we had hands on experience with the motar.

Btw, she was telling us during the good old days, a good wife is one who pound it quick and also loud at the same time. And that's how the potential husband and mother-in-law assess the women before accepting her into the family. 

Mind you, the motar is very heavy!  Everyone in the class took turns to have experience pounding with the motar.

Can totally tell there's lots of chilli in it. 

That's me trying very hard because it's really heavy and not easy to pound it quickly yet at the same time creating the loud effect.  

Derp's turn. He has the strength to pound it quickly and also very loudly. The teacher jokingly commented "this one must be a good wife" lol. 

Alright, time to cook the green curry! 

All this were chopped by us(except the carrot and chicken) and some of the students were appointed to distribute it to every wok in the class. 

So as usual, it was putting everything in the wok and turn on the stove. The teacher went around to distribute the coconut milk (we made at the start of the class) into our wok for us to cook it all together.

Green Curry with Chicken 

Really yummy and I finished most of it even though I was really quite full by then.

The last dish was the dessert! So looking forward to it because I love this dish alot and always crave for it when I'm in Singapore..

Mango with Sticky Rice

Zero effort from us for this dish as the rice was prepared by the teacher at the start of the lesson. She showed us how it was made and passed it to her assistant to cook it throughout the lesson.

The lesson ended around 5pm. We pay the lesson fees only after the lesson to the teacher and she gave us a recipe book to bring back :) She walked us out and taught us how to walk back to the BTS station. So kind of her because all of us were kind of lost after the market tour and then the tuk tuk ride. Totally forget how to navigate back even though we know the BTS station is kind of near.

All in all, we had a great experience at Silom Thai Cooking School! We gained new knowledge and insights on Thai cuisine. It's our greatest takeaway from this Bangkok trip.

For more information on Silom Thai Cooking School, you may visit their website http://www.bangkokthaicooking.com/ They reply their email very promptly and I did all the reservation and liaising with them through email. :)
You may read other post of my BKK2015 trip here:

http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bangkok-2015-day-1-part-1-singapore-bkk.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-1-part-2-after-you-dessert-cafe.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-2-part-1-coffman-by-friends.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-3-ookii-ookii-village.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/10/bkk-day-3-part-1-big-c-supermarket.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/11/bkk-day-3-part-2-som-tam-nua-siam.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2016/01/bkk-day-4-back-to-singapore.html

Last Quarter of 2015!

Here we go again, entering the last quarter of the year. Time flies when you get older and older. #sadtruth 

Last quarter of 2015 will be the most exciting months in 2015 because the wedding is getting nearer and nearer :S We are pretty much on the track (I hope) and taking things slowly and easy. Did I mention we have settled our honeymoon? :) The air tickets is confirmed hehe! Looking forward to the trip more than anything else!  

Because the big day is getting nearer, the #eatclean project has started somehow. Time to reduce the overall fat percentage in my body and that will means no junk/fast food. *cross fingers* And definitely no cutting of the time spend on working out but instead I should increase it. 

I've also placed the blender (housewarming gift from the girls) in my kitchen and have been using it diligently. Up till date, I've only explore fruits like grapes, blueberries and strawberries. Because all these fruits are easier to prepare compare to apples and oranges. 

Hereby presenting to you the first smoothie I've made :) 

Having my grape, blueberry and strawberry smoothie while watching my favourite korean tv drama (2nd time) on TV. 

Another clearer shot of it of my smoothie on another day. Feels really refreshing to drink this when weather is kind of humid these days.

I've only blogged half way about the recent BKK trip. Will be back to update really soon again :) And perhaps some wedding updates if I've the time for it. Time is running out and it's gonna be busy months ahead. 

Anyway, it's the last lap of 2015 so make the full use of it if you have not done so! 

Sengkang West National Day Celebration 2015

Just this month, Derp and I participated in yet another event held by our neighborhood CC.  Not long ago we participated in the RC's 1st anniversary. 

Upon knowing that there will be National Day Celebration in our neighborhood, we gladly bought the tickets for it. We were given red t-shirt to be wore to the event in exchange for a goodie bag. Not forgetting there will be fireworks display at 9pm on the event day(the first fireworks we witness in the new neighborhood). All this was part of the SG50 neighborhood celebration! 

The ticket consists of various food vouchers and also games for the little ones. 

Come to think of it, it's our 2nd National Day spent in the new house/neighborhood! I still remembered we moved in 1 month before National Day and I was missing home pretty much back then. But thankfully there was the Jubliee Weekend this year which allow many to spend more time with their family and loves one :)  

The National Day celebration started as early as 4pm but Derp and I only made our way down to Anchorvale CC after 6pm.

The glorious sunset which greeted us that evening :) 

We started walking around to see what's going on.

There was a long queue for popcorn/candy floss (free for those who purchased the tickets) 

The water game for the kids. Not forgetting there's bouncy castle as well. 

There were a whole stretch of food stalls. Since we can exchange our coupons for it, we went around to see what are the various food available.

Laksa! 

Chicken Rice! 

Nope this is not Kong Ba Pao. But instead it's roasted duck meat. 

We shared 1 of this. Taste yummy! 

Lots of people attending the event. 

There's this stall wrapping popiah with mango puree. A interesting variation from the usual popiah. Taste very refreshing indeed as it's cold.

Another stall selling wraps but this wrap is filled with meat. 

After grabbing some food, we went to the 2nd level of the CC to take a look. 

The little notes were filled with birthday wishes from the residents for Singapore. 

And so we spotted this largest LKY mosiac ribbon(till date) made from NEWater bottles. 

Can't help but to take a #OOTD with it. 

We tried our best to take a #welfie with it. 

Since there's nothing much left to do/any activities suitable for us, we head home to rest before heading out to wait for the fireworks. 

We found a good spot and camp for the fireworks. 

#welfie again but this time round while waiting for the fireworks :) 

When 9pm strikes, here comes the fireworks!  I didn't expect it to be those massive and lasting kind because afterall it's fireworks put out in a neighborhood area. All the photos taken by our Iphones so pardon for the blur quality. 

The firework lasted for a good whole 5 minutes(I think)! 

Ending this post with a #welfie of us and the fireworks. 

Having to enjoy fireworks within a walkable distance from our home is really a blessing (better than nothing). Hope to see more fireworks being put out in the neighborhood in years to come :) At the very least we get to enjoy it without having to travel and squeeze with the crowd. 

Last but not least, Happy 50th Birthday Singapore! May you prosper for many many more 50 years!