T R A V E L // chiang mai x thai secret cooking school

this was such an extraordinary way of learning the thai culture. whenever you visit a place, i strongly recommend doing a cooking class at the place you're visiting. honestly, what i cooked was probably the best version of the dish i've ever tasted. which sounds kind of dumb because it questions whether the authenticity of the dish since a local didn't actually make it, and in my opinion, it somewhat counts as local cuisine, right? 😉

comment below on whether you think this still counts as local cuisine or what you'd pick for your meal!

@brittnissx3 // picking your menu items

@bearahlee // all the variations of rice at the market

@bearahlee // mangos!

@brittnissx3 // you can make mango sticky rice at home!

@bearahlee // all the bikes at the market

@brittnissx3 // the set up

@brittnissx3 // the set up

@bearahlee // the garden

@bearahlee // flower with natural dying properties

@brittnissx3 // mise en place for holy basil chicken

@bearahlee // mise en place for curry

@bearahlee // grinding curry

@brittnissx3 // mise en place for papaya salad

@bearahlee // making homemade coconut milk

@brittnissx3 // mise en place for tom kha

@brittnissx3 // blue dye

@brittnissx3 // mango sticky rice

@bearahlee // the beautiful home of our host

video starts exactly at the cooking segment

T R A V E L // chiang mai x temples

you can literally spend weeks in chiang mai and never get to see every space. we visited so many places within three days here and on our last day we visited as many temples as we good and then some local places. we visited 3 temples, 2 coffee shops and 1 afternoon tea stop at a resort.

i wish i had spent more time visiting local coffee shops as that was recommended by a friend. so when planning your visit, look ahead of time of the places you want to visit and map them out to optimize your visit plan. see below of some of the wonderful places we saw.

@molly_velasco // wat phrathat doi suthep

@brittnissx3 // wat phrathat doi suthep

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@brittnissx3 // wat duang dee

@brittnissx3 // wat chiang man

@brittnissx3 // afternoon tea at anatara chiang mai resort

@brittnissx3 // afternoon tea at anatara chiang mai resort

@brittnissx3 // anatara chiang mai resort

@brittnissx3 // night market

@brittnissx3 // thai tea at free bird cafe

@brittnissx3 //  coconut creamy kao soi at free bird cafe

@brittnissx3 // scone + coffee at the coffee klub

video starts exactly at this day's adventure.