Busaba Eathai - cooking class

I loooooooove Thai food! Especially Busaba Eathai's Green curry and Sen Chan Phad Thai.. and the Goong tohd prawn and Som tam salad.. and everybody loves their  famous Thai Calamari (i just don't like calamari... i keep trying it but not for me).
So, when i found out that Busaba in Panton Street near Leicester Square do cooking classes on Sunday mornings i immediately emailed to get booked in with a friend.

So on the 25th of January at exactly 9:50am we stood outside the Panton street branch and was welcomed by Chef Hesh. The groups are kept quite small and have max 8 people in them which is great. We were 7 in total when we went which was great. We had lemongrass tea, cookies and a chat about the hours ahead before we got into our chefs whites and got started.

You don't get to do any prep work - you just learn about the food and get to cook/finish the dishes. Each class has 2 courses that you get to make. This time it was Som Tam (green papaya salad) and Phad Thai. Chef Hash also rustled up some Tom Yam Soup, Goong tohn prawn and calamari for us.

The menu changes every month or so - might have to go back again to learn the green curry! :-)

We started off with bashing up the Som Tam salad in a huge pestle and mortar

 Voila - my finished Som Tam salad.. yummy and didn't look to shabby if i may say so myself!

 

We then moved on to the Phad Thai. Did you know that it has dried turnip as one of the ingredients? No, i didn't either!

 

We got to wok away over very high heat ourselves - i lost a prawn whilst furiously stirring away but no other casualties!

 

Lunch time!

Afterwards we went to China town with Chef Hesh and he showed us where to buy authentic ingredients - all in all - really fun couple of hours cooking, eating, socialising and pestering the chef for top tips.. and all that for £45 a head.