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Cooking Class
December 2007 16 |
As a big fan of Asian cuisine of course I couldn't pass the
opportunity to take a Lao cooking class. There are several cooking schools (for
laymen) in Luang Prabang and I booked a course at
Tum Tum Cheng
Cooking School
(which belongs of course to the guest house and the
restaurant of the same name) to learn how to shave ginger most efficiently,
which part of which root can be used for what, and what those Asians mean when
they write "medium heat" in a recipe. The cooking school is for lay people
(there are professional cooking schools as well but I assume they don't do
one-day-classes, and they charge more that 25$ per day as well), but it did
have a famous pro as a student though: reportedly, Jamie Oliver once took a
class at Tum Tum Cheng.
The class started with a trip to a local market, then came preparation of the food (cleaning, skinning, cutting), cooking, and finally eating. The group selected six dishes from a ring binder with about 30 recipes, and since we had several vegetarians and a few people who don't eat lots of meat, we did not have a lot of meat dishes.
The cooking class is a perfect example for having a lot of fun and still acquiring some useful skills ... you can get recipes at home, but a cooking teacher can tell you what to substitute in case you can't get some ingredient at home, and of course what terms like "medium heat" or "... until soft on the outside" really mean.
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