Bangkok day 2 & 3

Day 2 - Decided to get more organised... after getting breakfast we headed to some tourist attractions. Took a boat towards the Grand Palace, and Wat Pho... So warm and sunny we didn't have water which was obviously a bad idea. Once arrived in Grand Palace, we had to borrow clothes as they did not let us in with long shorts... Imagine us with a long sleeve top and a long skirt on top of our clothes in 35C. After all this culture filled morning, we decided to go shopping. An indoor market named MBK where you can buy fake items of all sorts. We bought a few pair of shorts and t-shirts and a most needed cap. We finally went for a manicure that cost us a third of London prices. On our way home, we stopped off at a European Bistrot and realised that this was where all non locals where hiding. Although went for some red wine, that tasted like water to Sophie...

Not only Sophie has big feet....

Day 3 - Thunderstorms and lightning all night. Nat turned herself into a maid, washing all our clothes but in the machine so the effort was not too extreme ! Morning was chillax and our afternoon was dedicated to Sophie's great idea which was to go for  cooking class. Our chef Ann was great, we were taken to the market to get shown and explained about all the ingredients we were about to use: sweet basil, normal basil, holy basil... you get the idea! We then set off towards our cooking palace together with the rest of our group, a sweedish couple and a chinese family (who knew how to speak very good english). Ann, our lady chef taught us how to recognise sweet tamarind from savoury tamarind and got Nat to dilute the sweet one in warm water which felt like one was diluting a dog s##t into warm water.. yuk yuk! 

Sophie's task was to squeeze the milk out of the coconut meat. The secret is if you want to make coconut cream, only add one cup of water, a lot of cocomut meat and squeeeeze. For coconunt milk, same principle but add three cups of water ! Tadaaaa

We soon realised why Thai cuisine is so yummy... the secret is sugar sugar and again...sugar! sweet or savoury dishes are made with lots of sugar. We then got to prepare and devour a pad thai, some vegetable spring rolls, chicken mussaman curry, papaya salad and fried banana in sesame batter with coconut ice cream. Imagine how full we were after this 5 course home prepared meal! This was our best experience in Bangkok.