On the last day of the Ginger Festival we were lucky enough to receive instruction from Siriwan, or Chef Boo as her friends call her, the Thai chef of the well known Cottontree restaurant “Thai Mango”. She demonstrated how we can prepare, cook and store a number of different gingers including ginger, galangal, chinese keys, turmeric, torch ginger flowers and a relative to the ginger family, the banana flower. Chef Boo also provided a number of her Thai recipes using these various gingers.