Happy Birthday to Nong Ja, Isaan Thailand.

Well today is my amazing little niece’s birthday. Nong Ja has turned three and we headed across to one of our favourite restaurants in Ubon Ratchathani being Krungtep.

I arrived a little late and the girls had already started the birthday dinner. The birthday girl was the centre of attention for me.

Ja munching into a prawn.

This is a deep friend tilapia that is battered and is just so delicious, we ended up getting two of these between five of us.

This is prawn bread and is another favourite of mine.

Prawn and vegetable dish that was good.



In the outside seating area there is a fishpond that holds some large carp, Ja loves watching the fish and we usually end up making a lot of trips out to watch the fish swimming about.

Ja of course got bored pretty quickly and was having much more fun playing hide from the camera.

Krungtep is beautiful and always spotless; the food is excellent and not expensive for such a good quality restaurant.

After the fantastic meal we headed home, with a stopover at Swensens to get one of their delicious ice cream cakes.

Now poor Ja wanted to rip into the cake but she was told to wait as her dad and Benjawan were not here yet. It is hard trying to explain this to a three year old.

Then I started to get angry at the grown up fools and told them to pull their heads out of the butts and call Jack and Benjawan to get home or miss out. Then I was in the doghouse.

Ja was in tears at one stage and I went and took her from the baboons, being Noot and her mother Joom and we came into my room and I put on her favourite cartoon Mr Bean and she was soon asleep.

Noot crept in and also fell asleep waiting for the others to show.

Ja was woken up and was not a happy camper for a good ten minutes. When she finally settled down the cake was ready to go.

Ja helped mum Joom light the three candles.

Ja blew one candle out and two to go.

Another candle was out and the other was quickly blown out.

Time to cut the cake.

And then Ja sat with Noot and tried her green tea ice cream cake. Now if you are saying what the? So was I. Apparently the only small cakes they had were green tea and mocha flavour. When I asked if they had big cakes and better flavours the answers was ‘yes’ but they didn’t want to waste it.

I did tell them we had a freezer but it was a little too late. So it was green tea cake for tonight but on the weekend Ja and I will sneak off for something more to the liking of a three year old.

So my little princess is another year older.

Brunty