Balloon Adventure Thailand dropped us back off at the Chiang Mai Gate Hotel with a by 1:30 p.m. mandatory check out. Darn. We had hoped for a later checkout since the night train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok wouldn’t leave until 5:55 p.m. but the hotel was fully booked. New Year’s Eve. A walk over [...]
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How To Take The Night Train From Chiang Mai to Bangkok, Thailand
November 20th, 2010 
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How to Make Phad Thai/Pad Thai (Thai Fried Noodles) in Chiang Mai
November 19th, 2010 Sheila Simkin The Green Chicken Curry sitting safely at ex-Marine’s work station, it was back to the classroom, for the Phad Thai/Pad Thai (Thai Fried Noodles) demonstration. If you eat Thai food, you’ve probably eaten Phad Thai, everyone’s favorite and a fast and easy dish. Phad Thai calls for: fresh or dried rice noodles (if dried, soak [...]
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How to Make Green Chicken Curry in Chiang Mai, Thailand
November 18th, 2010 Sheila Simkin The fish cakes snarfed down, we went back into the classroom for Thai cooking course number 3 demonstration, Green Chicken Curry. ex-Marine and I ate this at Aroon Rai the other night for the first time and loved it. The main ingredient in this dish that would be the hardest for us to find and [...]
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How to Make Thai Style Fish Cakes – Tord Man Pla
November 17th, 2010 Sheila Simkin Back into the classroom with a demonstration on how to make Thai Style Fish Cakes/Tord Man Pla with all the ingredients laid out…View image. The Thai people usually use Tilapia but you could use any white fish. The entire recipe was similar to the salmon patties/cakes that I make at home, or crab cakes but [...]
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How to Make Thai Hot and Spicy Prawn Soup (Tom Yam Goong)
November 16th, 2010 Sheila Simkin Back in the classroom, Sampon, head chef and owner, demonstrated how to make Tom Yam Goong/Thai Hot and Spicy Prawn Soup. The basic ingredients are: – Washed, peeled and deveined prawns. The peelinga are used to make a stock. – Water or Chicken stock. – Garlic, shallots, lemongrass, ginza (a weird looking relative of ginger), [...]
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A Half Day Thai Cooking Course in Chiang Mai, Thailand
November 15th, 2010 Sheila Simkin I thought it might be interesting to take a half-day Thai cooking course while in Chiang Mai and, originally, signed up both ex-Marine and myself. But then a light bulb went on. Why should I learn to cook? Travels With Sheila has been cooking for over 50 years. Instead, I’ll observe while ex-Marine, husband, Steve, [...]
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A Safe Hot Air Balloon Landing and Montgolfiere History – Thailand
November 3rd, 2010 Sheila Simkin The trickiest part of Hot Air Balloon rides involves finding a good landing spot (video). The local villagers had already begun flooding and irrigating the rice fields and Woot kept scanning the countryside until he found, what he thought, was the best place available. Down so very smoothly to land on the ground without a [...]
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Up, Up and Away in Our Beautiful Hot Air Balloon Over Chiang Mai, Thailand
November 2nd, 2010 Sheila Simkin It was only seconds before ever so gently, the balloon lifted off the ground. It moved so quietly and slowly that it was only when we saw several inches of ground receding, it dawned that we were ascending. There wasn’t even one little waft of breeze in the early morning air. Complete silence with the [...]
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A Hot Air Balloon Ride in Chiang Mai, Thailand
November 1st, 2010 Sheila Simkin Contrary to family and friends opinions, we have not “been everywhere” and “done everything.” It was time for a hot air balloon adventure. This was an experience that we did try to do twice before but both times the hot air balloon ride was cancelled because of bad weather. ex-Marine was thrilled about this since [...]
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Bangkok’s Street of Shame and Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand
October 31st, 2010 Sheila Simkin During this last visit to Thailand, I read a huge article in the Bangkok Post about what they refer to as Bangkok’s “Street of Shame.” The lower end of Sukhumvit Road turns from shopping and entertainment to one of the world’s biggest open-air flesh markets after 2:00 a.m. If you are wandering the streets of [...]
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