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Blue Elephant Cooking School
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Blue Elephant
View inside the Blue Elephant from the third floor down through the spiral staircase.
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A container of some sort.
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The second-floor dining room.
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Blue Elephant
View from the second floor down.
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Blue Elephant
Another view downwards, from the staircase.
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Wooden Art on the Wall
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Chair Detail
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Second-Floor Dining Room
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Place Setting
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Fish Cakes
This lady is cooking fish cakes at the market. They were delicious.
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More Fish Cakes
Handing them over so we can eat them.
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Monthira Sohmanee (Mam)
The lovely lady who took us through the market, taught us all the ingredients and how to cook three of our four dishes. Here she's showing us a fish. Well, we all knew that one.
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More Fish
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Another Shot of More Fish
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Fish Heads and Pieces
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Thai Olive
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Water Beetles
The heads and legs are removed and the rest of the beetle is ground into a paste as part of a sauce.
Mmmm!
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Shrimps and Things
Dried shrimps, shrimp pastes, other dried fishy things.
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Cutting Fish
OSHA and the FDA would have a field day in this place.
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Banana Flower
The inner part is used for a sauce. Everything is used for a sauce around here.
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Live Catfish
Well they're live until she pulls them out and hacks them to death on the wooden block. One got away into the gutter while we were watching.
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Desserts
Various Thai desserts.
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Tofu
The tofu in front has turmeric in it.
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Coffee
Coffee is being brewed in the background. It's served in a plastic bag with a straw. Sweet, milky and iced.
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More Coffee Prep
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Me!
Waiting for my bag of sweet, milky and iced coffee. The first iced coffee I've ever had and liked.
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Kao Soy Kai Mee Glob
Northern chicken curry with crispy noodle. This was the preparation of the dish being shown to us.
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My Cooking Station
I'm about to do my best to screw up Kao Soy Kai Mee Glob. The station will never look this clean again.
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View
A view from my station across the cooking area. There were about ten of us in two rows. Various chefs strolled the middle and helped.
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Kao Soy Kai mee Glob
I did it! It thought it was a bit sweet but Mam said she liked it.
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Cookin'
Well really just cuttin'.
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View Down the Line
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Cart
This cart is stacked with prep for the next dish.
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Koong Sam Rod
I'm about to make Prawns with Chili Sauce.
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Ingredients, read from the top:
Garlic, peppers and coriander root (all three in one bowl), oil, red chili and onion, ginger, fish sauce, pineapple, sugar, water, tamarind juice, tapioca flour
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I did it!
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Teaching Station
Set up for the next dish.
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Teaching Station
View from the back. Note the mirror set up to see down. I sat up front for a better view.
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Teachin'
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Yam Nua
My interpretation of Thai beef salad. It was pretty honest but I upped the heat a bit and it was pretty spicy.
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Close-up of Yam Nua
Ingredients are, in the salad: steak, cucumber, tomato, white onion, scallion, thai celery, coriander and for the dressing: bird's eye chilies (one red one green), garlic, lemon juice, fish sauce and sugar.
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Teacher Approves!
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Robert and Friend Cooking
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Eat!
All our food out for us to eat. Pretty good stuff.
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