Want your delegates or winners to take a taste of Cambodia home with them and earn good karma while doing so? Here’s the answer – Feel Good Cooking School, helmed by the young and energetic Sovannara “Nara” Thuon.
Participants are picked up by tuk tuk and taken to the Feel Good Café in Phnom Penh, where the school is located, to enjoy a fragrant cup of coffee brewed from beans that have been roasted locally. Then it’s a three-minute walk to a buzzing local market to pick up groceries for the lesson. Nara leads guests on a journey guaranteed to tingle the senses – suck tart guava-like fruit, dip your fingers in freshly squeezed coconut milk, and enjoy the refreshing scent of kaffir lime.
Participants haul supplies back to the sparkling kitchen of Feel Good Cooking School and get down to business – the creation of one appetiser, one salad, a main dish, and a dessert, with guidance from Nara’s capable hands.
The menu includes but is not limited to chicken sausages wrapped in banana flower petals, mango salad with dried shrimp and dried fish, pumpkin custard, and the Khmer cuisine signature fish amok.
The lesson is wrapped up with a sit-down meal for participants to relish, literally, their new-found culinary prowess! Printed cook books containing recipes to all dishes offered at the school are given to participants.
Feel Good Cooking School opened in April 2014 as the latest initiative under the Feel Good social enterprise seeking to train and empower Khmer youth. It has welcomed a couple of small corporate groups and is set up for classes of up to 12. Book one week in advance.
Contact nara@feelgoodcafe.com for reservations and customised programmes.
