Cooking school

We went to a Thai cooking school today as that is what one does when one is in Chian Mai. Our school as out on on an organic farm. It was beautiful, the cooking should have been tasty if I would have been able to listen to instructions. We cooked 6 dishes, starting with a curry paste. I choose Red Curry, it's my favourite food in the whole world.

Unfortunately during the cooking process I managed to take 100 ml of fish sauce in the curry instead of the teaspoon required. That was a massive mistake, and the Curry tasted of little else then fish sauce. Even thought I had hand pounded the red curry paste myself. That took a long time I might add. So I was quite disappointed.

However, I did make Chicken in Coconut soup, Papaya Salad, Spring Rolls and Mango and Sticky rice.

But before the actual cooking took place we all went to the largest food market in Chiang Mai, and bought the ingredients. And there I saw a lot of interesting foods and slaughter methods. They kill the frogs by beating them on the head. One of the girls in the class she almost fainted when she saw that.

Anyway, I didn't bring my good camera, so here are some photos from my mobile camera.

More interesting Insects, you cant really see but these are giant flying ants. Eaten fried as a snack, like crisps.

And another pre-dinner snack. Grilled Frogs on a stick.

More types of rice then you could ever imagine needing.


And last but not least,MSG or Monosodium Glutamate. As many of you know I go a bit strange in head of MSG, I get hyper and get itchy and my throat hurts. Well here you can buy MSG by the bag and I have seen places that have MSG as a table spice. Nice.....


Tommorow I have promised A that we are not going to do anything. I'm not so good at that, but I will be doing my best. Hear you laters

Impressions of Hong Kong

As we have left Hong Kong and moved on to Thailand I've been thinking of my impressions of Hong Kong. If you like big brand shopping Hong Kong is your city. Really, every brand has at least 4 or 5 shops in the main part of Kowloon and Hong Kong island.

It's a interesting place to visit as it has so many different sides to it. We stayed on Kowloon in the Mong Kok area, which is an older more residential area. On our last day we went to the oldest most traditional food market in Mong Kok and look what we found..
Dragon Fruit



And a large cage of....ohh what is that.

Ohhh yes a large cage of Toads.

Apparently Toads are very good to eat when you are a bit weak and often given to women after child birth. Myself, I would squeeze my knees together to keep that baby from coming out so I wouldn't have to eat the toads. But hey that is just me, and I'm a bit fussy with food.

We also killed some time on the hotels roof top swimming pool, which was lovely, I am now able to swim a 4 length pyramid in front crawl. So I'm slowly improving.


View from roof top pool


Then we went for the afternoon tea...with the tiniest scones in the whole wide world.
Tiny Tea

Now in accounts for my very bad research and planning, Thailand has just entered rain season, so that is good at least I wont spend my holiday getting a tan. I can't believe myself. I really need to start checking out places before I got to them, it's been the same thing in every single place I visit :-).

Anyway, it's nice and hot and humid, so that is a plus, and the hotel/guesthouse is amazing looking, Pak Chiang Mai and I can't wait to go and get some food cause I love Thai food. As it's raining i'm going to go to a Cooking school, and maybe have a whole day spa thing.......

Blade Runner City

Blade Runner City

We arrived in Hong Kong late last night, and this is the view from our 35 th floor hotel bedroom. Sorry about the shakiness I blame it on not having slept for 24 hours and the fact that the Shutter time was so long. I think the shakiness it lends the city it's blade runner quality.

There is something exiting with Hong Kong, something dark and mysterious is how I feel it. I think the extremesness of the city also comes from the fact that I can't read the signs...I do not speak cantoneese or mandarin. But I do know the sign for fish...:-)I loved it last time I was here, and I think I might like it this time as well.


This is the view from what is under our window. After I took these photos I went to bed had a fantastic sleep. Our hotel room is lovely, we have a glass window into the bath room. I will take pictures later. But Now i'm going to check out the city.

During The Day

This is the view from our hotel this morgning, slightly grey and crazy humid. We are staying at Langham Place in Kowloon. Now we are to do some research on what we might actually want to do when we are here, as we are not good travel planers...:-). Anyway, we are alive, we are here..it's sunday so bring on the Dim Sums

Sweden

I spent the weekend in Sweden saying goodbye to the family members who haven’t planned to come and visit us in the next 5 weeks. And it was weird, not weird as bad, just weird.

Mainly because I deal with things that are new and scary and imminent buy diving head first into it and not thinking about it. I very rarely think about things that happen, or are planned to happen until afterwards. That way I don’t stress about them. On Saturday my mother and sister had planned a family lunch for the closest family, aunties, uncles and grand parents which was lovely. And everyone asked us questions about where we are to live (don’t know), about work (don’t have one yet, and do not know what I want to do) , when we are leaving (8:th of May and we are doing some travelling on the way there) and all other questions that one would normally ask someone when they move to another country.

I however react by getting very freaked out and hiding in the kitchen doing washing up leaving A to answer all the questions. I might need to get a new way of dealing with things that I find a bit scary as I am frequently getting asked the same questions at work, and there are very little washing up to do here.