{"id":1364,"date":"2013-01-24T07:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2013-01-24T07:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:34:02","slug":"elephant-kisses-and-garra-fish-nibbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/elephant-kisses-and-garra-fish-nibbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant kisses and Garra fish nibbles"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent two fun-filled days in Chiang Mai so far. <\/p>\n

Yesterday, we took a full-day cooking class at Siam Rice cooking school. They brought us to the market where we were shown how coconut cream and coconut milk are made. We were also introduced to some of the local produce like tiny eggplants, Thai holy basil and fresh tumeric. At the market, we bought some of the local Northern Thai sausages<\/a> and chicharron (fried pork rinds). mmmmm…. pork! Afterwards, we spent the day cooking up a storm and eating all of our tasty dishes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Today, we took a half-day tour up to Chiang Dao to see the elephants. We got to feed them and got elephant hugs<\/a> and kisses<\/a>. There was a lot more slobber and a lot more suction than either of us expected! As we were leaving, Greg spotted a sign that said “Elephant Nursery”. I’m glad he did because we detoured and got to feed a 16-month-old baby elephant and her mother and to see a 10-month-old baby elephant! \ud83d\ude42 Our tour then took us to Tiger Kingdom, where we posed for pictures with “big”<\/a> and “small” tigers. Finally, our tour guide brought us to “the” Khao Soi<\/a> restaurant in Chiang Mai. There was a long wait, but it was totally worth it (and it only cost us $1 a bowl!).<\/p>\n

Kat’s bug bite count: 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve spent two fun-filled days in Chiang Mai so far. Yesterday, we took a full-day cooking class at Siam Rice cooking school. They brought us to the market where we were shown how coconut cream and coconut milk are made. We were also introduced to some of the local produce like tiny eggplants, Thai holy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}