Bangkok High - Khao San and CHICKEN JUS

HELL WEEK. HELL HELL WEEK. Okay so you guys remembered my "DOUGH" week right? I think this has been so far my ruthless one. Culinary school is getting harder and harder. The highlight of this week is I think the Chicken Trussing SKILLZ. I think did pretty well with my chicken, I made him happy. But while I was dressing the chicken, WITH ITS HEAD ON, I unintentionally touched its eyelids and OMFG it was staring at me. It still has its eyeballs on. FUC***%#%$. Now i'm more scared because I think on the 15th practical we will be dressing Bugs Bunny. @##$^&. I'd be in hell. But anyway Chef was happy with my performance. Everything was fast, I thought I won't be able to go to degustation part but oh well, I finished right on time.

my chicken

Went right back to O'Reilley's on a Thursday night with new people. It was a pool doubles night with people in the Pub. NENG ROI TIGER!!!

Cindy from Australia and Terrence from California

Felix from South Africa (green) and Johann from India (white)

Cindy have lived in The Philippines for 3 years at South Forbes Park. Her husband was diplomat in Manila. Terrence is American-Thai and could do a good imitation of PINOY ENGLISH ACCENT. You would actually believe it. Felix is South African-Taiwanese who speaks fluent Mandarin. I freaked out when I heard it first. Then Johann is Irish-Indian who grew up in Mumbai. He's a walking karaoke.

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Saturday was the FUNNEST day ever, I thought I was going to be alone. I was at Erawan mall to check out Club 21 and check out Comme Des Garcon's new collection. The Margiela stuff they had were okay. But I almost got this Raf Simons shoes which is on a 60% discount. GOOD THING IS, I didn't have a size. Thanks to my fat feet, you just saved my wallet and my conscience. haha. But this is what I am excited about!

WEEE!!!

valentine's - ugh suck.

and it's gonna be Chinese New Year next week! Same day as to Valentine's day

So after and everything being lonely and shit and all that, FINALLY Bunny called me right after I just came back from Paragon to my Apartment. NICE BUNNY. So I went back to Paragon to meet up with Terrence and Bunny to try this Japanese place at Sukhumvit and oh well we saw a ready made PUFF PASTRY for 75 baht!!! fuckitfucklife.

You would think that it's something, but they're talking about dogs. :p

nice. dick. don't be a dick. puff pastry sheehs whatever.
and this is gonna get better, we went to Khao San road just right after the National Stadium. Tip: if you're a farang (foreigner) then I suggest you go with someone who looks like Asian enough. Taxi people just take advantage of you and won't let you go by meter. BEEATCH.

So yes we went to Khao San Road. So many tourists and of course you get to know new people as well. People are just as nice as everyone. And they've got vodka buckets! We stayed at this roof top place just along the road. It has a live band that plays everything 90's 80's. Cranberries, Oasis, Korn and even Aretha Franklin songs. It's just too awesome to be inside. I wanna go back. We met up with Johann and Felix and just came home @ 5:30 am. This week's FUNNER that the last.

these two stayed for more.

Terrence and his beard. telling everyone how SHMEXY he is.that's the bucket we had. We had 4 of that and Felix is trying to convince Terrence to have more bucket of Mojitoi wouldn't believe if this is the club's bouncer. he's been around the roof top place.... AWEZUM.they even bothered trying cricketsKHAO SAN state of mind haha.

That's it for now. All the peace and love from Bangkok...

xoxoxoxo

Babinella

OhYEHH!! I Survived Puff Pastry !!!

LOOK AT MY AWESOME PUFF PASTRY SKILLZ YO'!!! (not)

I didn't know that puff pastry could be that HARD and Easy!!! If you guys have no idea what puff pastry is, it's like empanada but more flaky and buttery or something like turon but thicker. So we were given two days to to prepare our puff pastry dough. We had a really huge piece of dry butter which we incorporated with our doughs. Oh my god we have to knead and blast chill it for five times which should have an interval of 10 minutes process after process.. FIVE TIMES okay. FIVE TIMES! You guys have no idea how my muscles are working right now. But you know, I still get to blog...WTF?! ^%$@

Part of the recipe was to Poach an egg. If you guys have seen Julie and Julia. It's in there. I didn't know that it could be that easy. We had to do 4 eggs for our puff pastry w/ leeks. SO AWEZUMM... I did it all right. And yesterday for the Demo, chef made Season Fruit Tart which I don't know how it became a cuisine recipe.

owwwhhh this seasonal fruit tart is just pure sin.

and the infamous Puff Pastry w/ Leeks, Poached Egg and Albufera Sauce
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Well Monday, we made Quiche Lorraine ... It was fun. But you know how I always f8ck up the recipe. I was sleepy!!! We had to listen to every demo 3 hours and after that practical right away! You get to sit down for 3 hours and cook for 3 hours. It's like a no pay job. LOL... WTF am I saying??????. Well........ I brought home the Quiche Lorraine and finished half of it myself. Well let me tell you, it was pretty good, Chef didn't comment on it except for the border of my crust was crooked. I didn't really angle it well. I'm super not good at doughs. For the dough practicals, I did nothing good. Just fair enough. RAWR! And for the Demo, Chef made Quiche Aux Champignons ...

Quiche w/ Wild Mushroomschef's Quiche Lorrainewell this was MINE. you can call this a decent job if you sell it in Cotabato. LOLaww this just made my night heavy...couldn't. finish. more.that's Lek. She's my station mate.

Omgomgomgomg I don't know what to do anymore. Every time I do my practical something is wrong! But you know, I chose to be here and so I will love it. I'm not complaining! haha... I'm getting used to it!!! well for now. But I'm hoping for more patience. RAWRARARWAR!!! Tomorrow we will be TRUSSING A CHICKEN!!! Oh god. HELP ME OH OH OH!!! :)))) Anyway tomorrow is Thursday!!!! It's thirstyday again and I'm looking forward to having a good time with LCBD friends!

Demo Recipe: Omelet w/ Candied Onions

Chef Arnaud

This is what we will be doing tomorrow. Well at least I get to bring home some "FOOD".

ANYWAY!! ALL THE BEST FROM BANGKOK!!! IM SCARED FOR MY CHICKEN TRUSSING SKILLZ FOR TOMORROW!!! WISH ME ALL THE LUCK THAT I WILL BE NEEDING!!!

sad/happy look

XOXO BABINELLA