Cooking Lesson

This weekend, I had an opportunity to take a cooking lesson of local (NPL) dishes. A friend of mine has a language teacher who also offered to teach the local cuisine. With another friend, in total three japanese girls endeavored to learn how to make different curry dishes.

When you think about "curry", you will probably imagine very creamy kind like butter chicken etc. However, the local dishes here are a bit more simple.

Our "teacher" so easily made in total 6 dishes!

• Dal soup


• Sesame flavored potato achar - achar is like a pickle but not quite it is usually not cooked but mixed with spices


• Edamame beans achar (I don't know Edamame in English...)


• Cucumber achar


• Bitter melon and potato curry


• Okra curry

And she also offer chicken curry and fried something (mini cucumber type vegetable, crispy skin but inside is like zucchini. I don't think there is English word for this!) that she made previously.

This lady is amazingly fluent in Japanese having studied (PhD in education) in Japan for a few years. We had so much fun chatting in Japanese and eating the delicious food. Something like this is really one of the precious moments of living in this country!

I already tried one recipe of cucumber achar and modified it with black sesame powder....

Result?

Was good but not as good as hers

Yes, I can't measure up to the local chef.