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Travel Tales: Learning to cook Thai food at Baipai Thai Cooking School, Bangkok

August 18, 2013 Paris B 33 Comments

2 weeks ago, I was in Bangkok. No one realised it, probably but that’s how I like it! I was there for just a short trip and this trip, I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something I’ve always wanted to do – go to a cooking school and learn some Thai dishes!

Many places offer these short cooking school sessions, where you can join for half a day or so, and learn to cook the local food so you take home more than just memories. You take home a taste of the country you visit. I love the idea and I’ve always wanted to do it so, I did.

Before I left, I looked around on the internet for recommended cooking schools in Bangkok and you’d be surprised to know that there are so many! Most of them take you on a buying/familiarization trip to the market as well, which is interesting if you are foreign to the exotic South-East Asian region. I eventually stumbled upon Baipai Thai Cooking School.

Reviews were very good, the website was professionally laid out and although it was more expensive than others I surveyed, they offered a hotel pick up and drop off, which I fully appreciated. So, I dropped them an email and it was sorted! Payment is made at the school itself after your class so that was easy!

bai pai thai cooking school bangkok

I was notified of my pick up time at my hotel and at the appointed time, a large van with a friendly driver in uniform identifying the name of the Baipai cooking school was waiting for me. We drove around picking up more “school mates” from various hotels in the city before heading off to the school. In our party that day were visitors from Macau, Japan, Korea and Guadeloupe, the last of whom was a chef himself!

The Baipai Thai Cooking School is located just after Chatuchak and it is deep inside a housing area, so I appreciated that they offered a pick up service. I don’t know how I’d have gone there otherwise. Along the way, the van dropped off most of the people in the van at the Or Tor Kor Market for their market familiarization trip. I opted out of that because I live in this region and I’m quite familiar with most of the herbs and spices used. I just need to know what goes into the recipe 😀

Arriving at the school is a pleasure. It is a large spacious wooden bungalow with a large garden and is so serene and tranquil that you are immediately put at rest. A lovely cold and delicious cup of lemongrass tea is served, you are handed your apron and recipe cards and off we went for a trip to the herb garden.

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Travel Tales: Eating my way around Bangkok (and meeting up with a MWS Reader!)

February 3, 2013 Paris B 48 Comments

I go to Bangkok so often (every year) that I tend to forget to take any pictures of the sights of the city. Its one of those things you take for granted you know. So to make things more interesting, I have started to make my annual visits a themed one. This visit, my focus was on the food and a good spa. I found my spa, now I just had to make sure I found my food! 😀

bangkok erawan shrine

I also made a pit stop for a bit of religion 🙂 This is the popular Erawan Buddhist Shrine that many people visit if you are of the correct religious persuasion. Many Buddhist shrines and temples dot the city of Bangkok but this is one of the most popular.

This trip to Bangkok, I also did something rare – I arranged to meet up with an MWS reader who resides in Bangkok! 😀 It was one of the highlights of my trip because I did not know what to expect, what she looked like or even if we’d be sitting in uncomfortable silence. So was it awkward?

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Travel Tales: Hansar Hotel Bangkok – Experiencing one of the top 5 Hotels in Bangkok

January 27, 2013 Paris B 35 Comments

hansar hotel bangkok

When I go to Bangkok, I am usually a budget traveller. Many aspects of Bangkok aren’t expensive and hotel accommodation is one of them. You can quite easily get a fairly decent hotel in a fairly decent and convenient location for just about RM100/night and that’s where I usually stay.

During this most recent trip however, I wanted to do something different for once. I wanted to stay somewhere nice, just because! I asked around and looked around online and came across Hansar Hotel Bangkok, that used to rank as the #1 hotel in Bangkok on Tripadvisor and on my trip, ranked #4. It came highly raved and with a pretty price tag but, I just had to jump at it 😀

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Spa Visit: So Thai Spa in Bangkok – 3 Hours of Affordable Luxury

January 17, 2013 Paris B 43 Comments

By way of explanation for my silence on the comment and email reply front, I just returned from a short trip to Bangkok so I’m catching up on everything now! 🙂 It was a trip I was supposed to have made last year but got pushed forward to this year instead. I’ll have some Bangkok tales come up later but there’s one thing people go for while in Bangkok or Thailand generally, and that is massages. Massages or even spa packages are relatively cheap by comparison to many parts of the world, even Malaysia and its so easy to find massage places. Almost every soi (street) has a few.

But this time, I wanted something different. I did not want to just pop into a random massage shop for a 1-2 hour RM30 (about US$10) foot massage, and I did not really want to have the traditional Thai yoga style stretching massage either. Based on previous experiences, some of them do more harm than good to my old bones and back. I was itching to try something different – a proper head to toe spa – so I looked around online and what do you know? My search yielded one – So Thai Spa.

so thai spa bangkok

I thought it interesting because So Thai Spa is also in London and they had recently opened up their Thai branch. But what got me most intrigued was that they are ranked #1 on Tripadvisor (as of January 2013) for spas in Bangkok (here). That can’t be an easy feat! The reviews on Tripadvisor sounded promising and I didn’t think their spa packages too pricey, so I bit the bullet and made a reservation!

What this meant was that I had to allocate 3 hours of my day (not hard, I’m on holiday after all!), find out how to get there (really easy) and see how the treatment went! I’m always open to other massage/spa suggestions so if you know of a good one in Bangkok, please tell me so I can visit next time! 🙂

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