Mona's birthday!

Thanks Sandeep for choosing my cooking class to celebrate Mona' Birthday party. It look like everybody
had a great time- cooking, eating and dancing- down down !!!

Fidelity Team Building!

Thanks Juniper for bringing Fidelity Investment team joined me cooking for the special time of the year. I love the beautiful color of the Christmas apron and the hat !!

Everybody had fun making artistic Spring Roll, Thai Spicy Basil on top with fired egg and fancy Mango Sticky Rice. I got a new move from my student " Mango Dancing" . Thanks it was fun:)

Thanks to Priya for bringing all her friends and other who came to joined with us! This is my first Thai cooking class on the second floor and turn out to be blast and great for big group of 13 people!!! We all did some Salsa dancing to get ready for dessert. One Stop Service -Dine & Dance with Sunshine:)

Cisco's Team Building!

Kris “Cisco” and his Angels descended on Sunshine’s Thai cooking class for some serious “team building”. First off everyone autographed the aprons for each other


Next we all shifted to making fresh spring rolls where we had a winner for the best looking and the highest production – six rolls in just a few minutes”. After devouring the spring rolls, it was back to chopping Chinese broccoli, chicken, and big fat noodles for the pad se el. Once again the completion heated up with a great show of wok handling to make some outrageously good pad se Ew

Come to dessert time “mango sticky rice” here the creative talent came into play with decorative mangos design almost too good to eat – a heart, bicycle, face topped with some sweet-salty coconut sauce.

My husband caught fours dungeness crab, so we couldn't ate it all after steam and eat with the Thai seafood sauce then I decide to use the meat to make Crab Fried Rice. Thanks husband for the fresh crab...

Great Space For The Event

The commercial kitchen-two oven and high BTU stove along with the bar on both side.

The second floor with the high ceiling with the old pews wood floor of 102 years old church.
This is an pop up dinner for the Vietnamese cuisine for 60 people seating.

Everyone were enjoyed to spice their own dishes. Good thing about making Thai food is no measure method just add more or less as you palate desired!

Lad Narh

Thai style wide noodle with thick sauce or "Lad Narh" . If you are a fan of Pad See Ew then this dish is not as too new for you in term of the ingredients but the noodle soak with the thick Thai style instated of just stir fried. You also can add the chili pepper into the dish if you like spicy taste.

Cook for Love!

We had a great time with Rudy and Maria! We hope joining my cooking class was the good
choice for both of you on vacation in San Francisco.

I have no idea how much I like this Bread Pudding-I ate two of thouse after it cool down from the oven right the way!!!

The crispy on the top and the moise inside.

This class was really fun - my kitchen turned into a competion of the chefs. It was a challenge of the three men vs the three women. You probably can guess who the winner was!

This is my first class after came back from my trip. Pad Thai is always popular for everyone who want to learn how to make Thai food at the first time. It is very simple ingredients and fast easy dish to make. I believe that all of them can make one now even though one of them never had an experience cooking. Good choice to choose this dish to start.

Yum Khai Down

I could say Yum Khai Down is an entree even though it is a salad dish. I can say that because it is not just only vegetable in there is mix so many kind of meat and seafood. You can add any kind of meat you like but the main thing you need to have is fried egg. The dressing is similar to papaya salad if you already know how to make papaya slad already so this dish it won't be be hard. It is go with noodle and serve on the rice is good as well.

I couldn't count how many spring roll they had for each person but I believe at least three:))
After all the food, we had to do a little exercise before the dessert, so I gave a basic Cha Cha Cha and seem everyone are a fast learner!!

Sandy's Birthday

I hope Sandy had a great birthday party in my class. She wanted to celebrate her birthday in
difference way. Everybody had a lot of fun and stuff with great food.

Cooking, Dining & Dancing

Another fun night with my class!!!! Thanks for sharing me for the information of the "Happy Tea"
I like it and will let you know if that works for my class as well:)
Good Luck with your travel stamp collection:)))

Catch Of The Day!!

My husband caught this rock fish by the Farallon Islands, so I got whole fish to fried and on topoff with Thai sauce. The sauce I made is balance of three taste - Sweet, Sour, and Spicy. Sweet is from plam sugar, Sour from tamarind sauce, and Spicy from Thai chili.

What can I say for the third time with this group - We had a blast!!!!!

We cook, eat , drink and dance. Practise your turn for the next time!

First time with Black Sticky Rice with Custard was very yummy as well..

From difference part of the world but love to have the same food. I can say for this class is very
international because the students come from Japan, Indian, Columbia, Hungary and USA..
I believe that Food is the important part for bringing people together.

No experinced require for this class!!
For everyone this was the frist time to take a cooking class and making Thai food. I hope everyone enjoyed the food and getting to know about theThai ingredients. Making a Mango Sticky Rice was a lot of fun as you can see in the pictures:))

Green Curry with Thai eggplant

I got lucky today found the Thai eggplant at the farmer market, so let me think of making Green Curry. Thai green curry is very popular than other for Thai people because it is spiciest than other curry dishes. It usually make with eggplant and serve on the rice noodle or call Ka Nom Jeen in Thai.

Thai Seasoning!!

Dark Soy Sauce, Fish Sauce, Oyster Sauce,Light Soy Sauce!!!!!!

Red and Green Curry Paste--Mae Ploy Bran is the best !!!

Tamarin Paste, Palm Sugar, Coconut Milk.

Thanks Ken and Barbejoe to bring friends from Redwood city to join my cooking class.
First time to try mango sticky rice with black rice - I think everyone preferred it!

Ladies Night

Thanks Jenni and Martina for bring a fun group of friends for a second time cooking class
with me and picking to make Papaya Salad - my favorite dish!!!!!
Low calories and lots of fun to make!!!!


We tried both Red and Green Curry to see which we liked best - for this night we gave Green Curry with eggplant the winner!

We had a great class – and lots of fun – sharing dinner and conversation is the highlight of all good days. We experimented with different portions of the Thai spices to see its effect and tailored them to our taste. The food and company were five star!

Ladies Night in the Kitchen

This class with Patel and Seema was a blast – both were really into cooking, enjoying good food, and having fun. We had so much fun that the three hour class was over in no time and we spent a lot of extra time making cute presentations with the mango sticky rice. It was really interesting to talk about the differences and the similarity between Thai and Indian food, especially how spices are used – I think we both learned a lot and in the process got to know each other. I love this type of class and look forward to the next one.

Papaya Salad, Pad See Ewe and Mango Sticky Rice are good combination for dinner.
My students fall in love with Thai food and want to know how to make those dishes.
First, They though making Thai food is so complicated but after took the class,
they didn't think how easy it is-esp how to make a sticky rice:)..

Papaya Salad and Mango Sticky Rice

I decided to teach how to make papaya salad for the first time because one of my students requested it for his father's birthday. Teaching how to make papaya is more fun than I though. The fun part starts from preparing the papaya, the pounding and seasoning. I teach in two difference way- Thai traditional way with the wood mortar and American way of tossing in a mixing bowl.
a good thing about papaya salad - it has a combination favor - sweet, sour, salty and spicy, so everyone can play and adjust these to their own taste.


However, it doesn't metter how full the students are from the appitizer and entree, when it comes to dessert time-they never say no for the mango sticky rice. An interesting thing I've noticed many class is the students get more creative and having fun playing with the mango - this part of the class turns to a work of art. The dessert turns out great and with a nice presentation as you see in those pictures. It is hard to say who is the winner this time, don't you think???