Bangkok, Thailand

I absolutely adore Thai food so on my way back to London from my trip home to Fiji in January, I made a point to stopover in Bangkok, Thailand for a few days, especially to learn more about this gorgeous cuisine.

For those of you that love to embark on culinary adventures like myself, the details are:
Blue Elephant Cooking School - http://www.blueelephant.com/school/index.html
Baipai Thai Cooking School - http://www.baipai.com/



I enjoyed the Baipai class more then the Blue Elephant one as it was set in a more authentic Thai home-style learning environment.

Spicy Grilled Beef Salad (Yam Nuea Yang)
I have a lot of Thai recipes that I plan to share with you but for my first Thai posting I have chosen the Spicy Grilled Beef Salad, solely because it is the most popular at my dinner parties, and not to mention the most healthy.



Ingredients - Per 1 serving
80 grams Beef fillet
1 tsp Seasoning Soy Sauce
1 Shallot - Finely Shredded
1/2 Tomato - seeded and finely sliced
1/2 Cucumber - seeded and finely sliced
1 Chinese Celery - roughly chopped

Dressing
1 Hot Chillie - finely chopped
3 cloves garlic - finely chopped
2 tsp Lime Juice
2 tsp - Fish Sauce
1 tsp Sugar (Brown)

Method
Marinate beed with seasoning soy sauce for 30 minutes. Then grill over medium heat turning regularly until it is medium or well done. Slice thinly and set aside. Prepare the dressing by mixing chopped chili, garlic, lime juice, fish sauce and sugar together. Combine beef slices, shallots, tomato, cucumber and chinese celery in a bowl and add dressing. Toss well and serve.