ART: Sunday Night Market - Chiang Mai, Thailand

If in case you are planning to stay in Chiang Mai, Thailand on a Sunday you shouldn't miss out the Sunday Night Market. Check out all the arts stands of young Thai artists selling their amazing paintings. Some of the artists are students just trying to earn some money. I really wish I would have the possibilty to bring one of those giant elephant paintings to Berlin!

Stay arty,

- AJ -

 

FOOD: Night market and food again! - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Oooh I know this is ridiculous but it's just a really weird habit of mine. I love taking pictures of food. That's probably also a reason why I really liked the cooking course as you might have noticed on the tons of close-up food pictures. But I like to share all these tempting pictures with you to make you want to come to Asia just to experience the variety of tastes and dishes which sometimes can blow your mind away! But if you plan to come here and stuff yourself with all of these yummy dishes you should also think of doing some sport activities like rock climbing, trekking or cycling. You don't want to look like a fat ugly tourist haha.

- AJ -

tom kha kai

pork sausage

crepes

fruit salad

turkish pizza, isn't that weird

rice cake

FASHION: Vintage shops - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chiang Mai is not how you expect Thailand would be. This town is something special and has a certain urban athmosphere due to it's high percentage of young citizens and students who make you feel like in a Thai urban artistic university town. There are stylish bars and cafés everywhere but still you can find typical Thai markets and local food stands.

If you're looking for vintage and style then you should come here and go fashion hunting. I discovered two amazing vintage shops. There are both similar: a lot of colors and differebt patterns of 60s to 80s-looking pieces which are all very unique. Mix up your own outfit, take your time to look for the perfect dress or some real vintage New Balance sneakers or an old faded leather bag from the 60s. There is so much beauty to discover in these fashion stores and even the background hipster-music and the vintage interior will make you think you're shopping in Berlin's Neukölln or in Brooklyn, New York. It's amazing that all youngsters, no matter if we are European or Asian have the same kind of taste of Fashion.

Visit these vintage shops if you're up for fashion hunting in Chiang Mai, Thailand:

Love 70s

Near Horpra School,
Sri Phum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Kaber
Inthawarorot Road
Chian Mai, Thailand

Phone:

+66 85 037 9824+66 85 037 9824

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- AJ -

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FOOD: Cooking course - Chiang Mai, Thailand

If ever you"ve wanted to do a cooking course then it's your chance if you come to South East Asia. There are a lot of cooking courses here which offer half or whole day cooking courses in town or on the farm. I recommend doing a whole day cooking course on the farm because you get to cook about 5 dishes you can chose from their programm and you get to learn where the main ingredients actually come from. So if you love Thai food you should definitely visit one of Chiang Mai's cooking schools. The whole day cooking course on the farm cost 1000 THB and you get a cooking book written by the school at the end of your lessen. I did the one of Smart Cooking in Chiang Mai. I was picked up by mini van (this is so typical in Thailand) at my hostel in the morning at around 8am and then we picked up the other cooking students. When we were complete we were a group of 11 which was just right. We met our cooking teacher at a local food market where she explained us the main Thai ingredients they use cooking. Afterwards we took the train to the cooking school which was about 15 minutes from the Old City where she showed us where they actual grom the vegetables. Then she introduced us to the dishes we were going to cook. We had to choose one dish each from the 5 categotries - main dish, soup, curry paste, appetizer and desert. Don't worry of not finishing eating your food you cook because you cook small portions. It wasn't as difficult as I was expecting and you learn that cooking is actually easy. You just have to know what goes well together and which spices you use.
So at the end I was very surprised how tasty the food was I cooked and could hardly imagine that it was made by me.
These are the dishes I chose:

- vegetable coconut soup with chicken
- stir fried chicken with cashew and rice
- green curry paste in coconut chicken soup
- papaya salad
- boiled banana in coconut milk

Enjoy cooking!

- AJ -

vegetable coconut soup with chicken

stir fried chicken with cashew and rice

green curry paste

green curry paste in coconut chicken soup