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  Thursday 29th of January 2015 and I was still in shock when I woke up. My friend died yesterday. I was talking with him and we were going to the Thai language evening class. I was just arriving to  the sky train station at Sukhumvit Road Soi 99 to renew my driving license when he called. We chatted away and we were going to meet at school in a few hours.
I had taken the sky train from my Thai school in Soi 11 and as they wanted me to take a 4 hour training video. My license expired some time ago and I didn't wanted to take the training video and I was soon on the train back home. My friend was not in school at Time Square and the Teacher asked where he was. I told her that he had most likely got drunk. I went to Tops Market to buy fruit and when I was back home I saw the missed calls from my friend. All within a few minutes and the time was when we finished class. So I suspected that he had called to get me to some place where he would be sitting and drink beer. I called, and as soon as there was an answer I shouted: - Way to go, skipping class getting drunk - Aladdin, it is Mark... - Are you the one getting him drunk so he miss classes.... - There had been an accident - What accident? My friend had been in an accident and he was dead, I could not grasp. I had just been drinking tea in his sofa and we had been talking about the future. And we were going to meet at the school, he didn't showed up and it was strange, because he is always calling if he is not coming to school. Now he had an accident on the way to school. Our friend told me he was at the hospital with our friend's girlfriend and I asked how our friend was. Hoping that there was still hope as they were at the hospital. - Aladdin, it was a terrible accident and he didn't made it I could not believe this, a very good friend and a very nice guy was gone. 3 hours later and I was crying like a baby. He will be missed very much. Always very social and he was always up to things. He will leave a hole behind and I was very sad. We were going to take cooking classes, and he was going to join me in Bangkok Photographers and the Thai boxing. And waking up today was not much better, but my friend saved me when he came at 10 o'clock for our boxing exercise. I was going to be at the Dunkin Donut at Asok sky train station at 1 o'clock to meet my cooking Teacher. We were going to the market before starting the cooking. So I had time to read Bangkok Post online.  Now we expect the very same (too stupid) people to have an opinion about other countries understanding of Thai politics” but they never published my comment. I took my camera and I walked to the Asok sky train station and I was there waiting for my Teacher. I guy walked pass and he asked if I was Aladdin. Turned out it was a guy from Sweden and he knew me and some of my friends. We had a chat and my Teacher was soon coming.  At the market
 At the market
 Taking a taxi to the school on Sukhumvit Soi 23
 We're at the cooking academy
I was already a wee bit disappointed that they had bought the chilli paste, in Laos we did the paste and this is what I wanted to do. Chop onion and to fry chicken, well, this I have done more times  than I care for.
And when I did my own chilli paste in Laos it was easy to skip the chilli. The chilli just burn and the taste is in the different leafs we're using in the paste. Everything was prepared and I just had to cut the eggplant and to chop some vegetables. There were some big chillies, the biggest chillies I had ever seen. The Teacher told me that it was like bell pepper when I told her that I  didn't wanted any chilli.
OK, bell pepper is good, I chopped the big chillies and I didn't washed my hands as I use to do when I handle chilli. Suddenly my face was burning so I had to have a cold towel over the face. Darn, it was painful. I was quite upset, how the foock can she tell me it is like bell pepper. Bell pepper is for sure not burning like this. As soon as the burning decreased we went outside to start the cooking. We started with the Khao Soy
 hope the other food turns out better. All the food was ready, just remaining to eat. But first I had to prepare the sticky rice for the mango.
I made the coconut milk sauce and when the sauce was ready, a few minutes in the wok and I mixed the sauce with the rice. This is a sweet sauce and they mix it in the rice here, in Laos we pour the sauce over the rice. Well, I see that they do like this in some places in Thailand as well, but what I like with the Lao style sticky rice is that they serve it hot with the mango.
I mixed the sauce and sticky rice and then this had to soak for 10 minutes and I was eating while waiting for the sticky rice to soak. And the food was good, very good. OK, the Kaeng Kheao Wan  was a wee bit too spicy, but it was OK. I blame it on the bought chilli  paste, if we had made our own chilli paste I would have skipped the chilli.
And it would have been interesting to do the chilli paste for the Green curry chicken (Gaeng Kheao Wan Gai) and the Red curry with chicken (Gaeng Phet Gai) It is the same dish but with the difference in colour, red and green. But it was not bad, not as spicy as I had expected, of course, I didn't take as much chilli paste as was required according to the receipt.   And my Gai Pad Med Mamuang was as good as the one we had in Khao Yai. It was good and I was very full when we were ready. But I had to eat the mango with sticky rice as well. So I was very full when I walked back home. And I will for sure make the Gai Pad Med Mamuang one of these days. Maybe invite the girl from Khao Yai? So how was the cooking class?
  We will visit the Royal Thai Air Force Museum tomorrow. I'm not giving up my search for something fun to do when I'm too old for party and the series “How to kill a day in Bangkok” continues. You just have to click HERE to find yourself in the middle of that adventure.
    
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