The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, January 14th. The Club meets every Sunday morning at Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant on the north end of Beach Road in the grounds of the Amari Orchid Resort. The program starts as usual at 10:30 a.m. with a buffet breakfast available from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Everyone is warmly welcome. This week the PCEC welcomes Dr Narong who will provide the latest information regarding stem cell research. This will be followed by the lively and informative Open Forum and an update on happenings in and around Pattaya. A full report appears each week in Pattaya Mail. For more information about the Sunday meeting and the other weekday activities of the PCEC, see the club’s website at www. pattayacityexpatsclub.com and learn more about the many and varied activities available.

The Thai Downunder Club, Pattaya is now forming: the soon to form club’s aim is to bring all Aussie’s, Kiwi’s and Pacific Islander’s and their families together in order to foster better relationships, family environments and business in Thailand. Membership is free, but is limited to Australian’s, New Zealander’s, Pacific Islander’s and their families and spouses. Shortly, the Thai Down Under Club, Pattaya will be holding regular meetings and social activities in Pattaya and eventually other areas of Thailand. You are invited to register on-line at www. thaidownunder.net

The Charity Club of Pattaya meets most Sundays at the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6. Contact Malcolm on 09 7441040 or Christina on 095454185; [email protected]

The U.K. Ex Forces Club meets at Tropical Bert’s (2nd Rd opp Bangkok Bank) every Sunday lunchtime, 1pm to 5ish. For more details phone Bert on 09 8072335 or call in the bar.

Dining

Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set menu: Entrees: Prawn and Crab Meat Salad, Mushroom Cream Soup with black Truffle, Pan-fried Goose Liver on Snow Peas and Beetroot with Saffron Citronelle Sauce; Main Course: Over baked Salmon with Sun dried Tomatoes and Capers, Sauce, Walnut Rice or scalope of Turkey Breast with roasted Cepes, Mushroom Cream Sauce, Buttered Noodles and seasonal Vegetables; Dessert: Sour Cherry Parfait with Kirsch flavored Chestnut Mousse or Premium French cheeses. Pattaya 2nd Road in front of Ruen Thai Restaurant. For reservation (038) 723 660, fax (038) 723 659, e-mail: [email protected]. For more information: www. restaurant-pattaya.com

Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa introduces a new food and beverage promotion offering great value for money at Garden Café during the month of January 2007. The Garden Café’s night market serves an international daily buffet from 6 pm to 11 pm with a fabulous variety of food in a “Uniquely Thai” atmosphere. This month, Garden Café’s chef has prepared a superb grilled and seared meat dishes a la carte menu for your dinner and offers a special 2 courses at only 650 baht ++ inclusive of a glass of house wine. For more information and reservations call Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa (66) 38 412 120.

Pattaya’s world-class Steakhouse, Manhattans: upcoming events in 2007 include exclusive wine tasting and mixer nights; Open 7 nights a week, a la carte menu; Eddy Profette on piano 6 nights a week; complimentary limousine service and valet parking for your convenience. For reservations please call 038 259 790 www.manhattans-pattaya.com

Dusit Resort is holding a month-long celebration of Italian cuisine at The Bay Restaurant: From 2nd – 30th January, The Bay’s Italian chef highlights mouth-watering antipasti buffet every night except Wednesday and Saturday. Also on Wednesdays, the Italian Night features a buffet selection of all time favorite Italian food: antipasti, salads, pizza, pasta, dessert. Feasts Italian food lovers should not miss! Antipasti buffet 586++ baht for the complete meal, or 382++ baht for starters only, and separate orders from a la carte. Half price for children under 12 years. Wednesday night buffet 676++ baht per person and half price for children 5-12 years old. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2270.

The Peak Restaurant introduces Chinese Imperial cuisine: Enjoy superb dishes including Hong Kong noodle and cold chili sauce; Steamed sea bass with Cantonese sauce and Hong Kong noodle; Grilled scallop and steamed roll seaweed with shrimps; stir-fried Phuket lobster and century egg with Hong Kong noodle and The Peak’s dessert of the month sweet ginger pudding with fruits. The Peak is located on the 9th floor of with a panoramic view of the bay. The restaurant is open every day, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm for lunch & 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm for dinner. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2276.

Henry J. Bean’s Bar & Grill invites you to kick off the New Year with mouthwatering steak! In January, enjoy Hank’s famous steaks, prepared and grilled to perfection by skilled chefs. For reservation please contact guest relations at 038 428 323 ext. 763.

The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower, Pattaya presents a January Pizza & Pasta Festival: Enjoy an Italian evening in the unique setting of the Amari’s lush tropical garden. Amari’s chef has created a wonderful buffet of Italian home style cooking. Enjoy the antipasto or create your own pasta dish. Full dessert buffet is also available, plus live music from the resident band: Every Friday from 7 – 10 p.m., 490++ baht per person (subject to service charge and VAT). For reservation please contact guest relations at 0 3842 8323 ext. 763.

Ace Cafe BBQ Night in Jomtien: Every Monday is BBQ party night! Come and enjoy a platter of grilled steak, sausages, baked potato, corn on the cob and mixed salad, all for only 159 baht! Tickets on sale all week with one lucky winner eating free! Grill fires up at 6.30, don’t be late! Ace Cafe, Hanuman Corner, 089 990 9342.

Eat to the Beat at Starz Diner, Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya. The freshest seafood cooked to your liking, international specialties, Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya’s award-winning dishes with free-flow of wines, beer and soft drinks. Plus every Saturday, a whole spit-roasted pig is added to the wide selection of sumptuous dishes on the buffet. Eat to the Beat is available Sunday to Friday from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at 590++ baht per person and on Saturdays from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. at 690++ baht per person. Call tel. no. (66) 038 428755 - 9 for reservations.

Patrick’s Belgian Restaurant presents: Monday: “Osso Bucco” with mashed potatoes. Tuesday: Australian lamb chops (400g) with béarnaise-and mint sauce, veggies and fries. Wednesday: Côte a’l Os or prime rib (800g) (2 persons) with beurre Maitre d’Hotel and potato croquets. Thursday: “Ostrich” filet steak, “Archiduc” veggies and potato croquets. Friday: Moules-Frites (Mussels Belgian Style). Saturday: “Cocq au Vin” (chicken casserole) with fries or potato croquets. For reservation call Patrick 08/16872410 or e-mail [email protected]

Café New Orleans, a culinary landmark for over 9 years on eclectic Pattayaland Soi 2, has expanded its Fiesta Filipina menu and added an Additional Special Menu including imported black Angus tenderloin steak, succulent lamb tenderloin, scallops, assorted dinner crepes and chocolate souffl้ for dessert. You can order anything, from the famous rack of baby back ribs and imported steaks to special gourmet entrées, side dishes and deserts. Chefs coming from some of the top restaurants in Manila prepare Filipino dishes such as sinigang, adobo, pancit, crispy pata, bangus, tinolang manok, bistek, dinuguan, lechon kawali, menudo, lumpia. Café New Orleans means “Fine Food at Affordable Prices” … with the emphasis on “Affordable”. For more information or to make a reservation call 038 710 805, fax 038 710 784.

Mantra Restaurant and Bar is now open on the North Beach Road in Pattaya, with a new concept in dining. The restaurant, with its awe-inspiring architecture and its eclectic and unique d้cor, is open from 6pm and the bar, equally as impressive and provocative, opens from 5pm till 1am. Enjoy a pre-dinner or post-work drink, before settling in to enjoy a fabulous culinary journey through various mouthwatering Asian and Mediterranean cuisines. Mantra Fabulous Sunday Brunch is also available from 11am to 3pm.

Jameson’s the Irish Pub has a host of daily specials including on Monday’s fillet steak special, a fillet steak served on a sizzling metal tray with french-fries and vegetables for baht 165. On Tuesday it is the turn of the gammon steak with french-fries and veggies at baht 165. Wednesday it’s deep fried bread-crumbed chicken with french-fries at 165 baht. Thursdays is two kebabs loaded up with beef steak, pork, liver and bacon, chicken, kidneys, pineapple, green pepper, tomato, onion and mushrooms served with fried rice on a chopping board for 165 baht. Friday is fish and chips for baht 165. All the specials are served with a bowl of home made soup to start with and home made ice cream or fresh fruit as dessert. As always Jameson’s serves its all day and night carvery at the weekends, as much as you can eat for 350 baht. Speckled Hen beer on draft is back in stock as well as bottled Newcastle Brown Ale. 80/164 Soi Sukrudee (Soi AR), Pattaya, tel. 038-361-873-4, email [email protected]

Mercure Hotel Pattaya presents P&P all you can eat pasta and pizza at the Cappuccino Terrace every Wednesday night. Soi 15, 2nd Road, South Pattaya. For more details call 038 425 050.

Enjoy delicious English, European, Mexican and Thai food at the Premiership Football Restaurant in Naklua: 200 menu items to choose from in Pattaya’s theatre of sports - with 3 huge projection screens. Located on Naklua Road (opposite Woodlands Resort), 2mins from Dolphin roundabout. Tel. 038 416 670-1, Open 24hrs.

The Queen Victoria Inn’s Sundays just get better and better! Not only can you tuck into the Sunday Carvery, 3 courses for 320 baht, but you can also be entertained by The Copy Cats band live from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Come and have a great Sunday at the Queen Victoria Inn, Soi 6.

Shenanigans Irish Pub nightly specials: 12 noon – 11 p.m. Monday Spaghetti Night (160 baht); Tuesday Chop Night (150 baht); Wednesday Steak Night (195 baht); Thursday Curry Night 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. (250 baht); Friday Schnitzel Night (195) 12 noon – 11 p.m.; Saturday Carvery (395 baht) 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.; Sunday Carvery (395 baht) 12 noon – 11 p.m.: The famous Shenanigans Carvery, a choice of 6 different joints, 9 vegetables & potatoes, prawn salad & home made soup, as much as you can eat. Shenanigans the Irish Pub 218/2-4 Moo 10, Royal Garden Resort, Pattaya 2nd Road. Email: [email protected], Phone: (038) 710 641, www. shenanigans-pattaya.com

And Now For Something Completely Different: For those of you who like Pattaya Mail’s “Life in Fun City” and great tasting Thai food pop along to the Salt and Pepper Restaurant next door to the Flamingo Hotel behind Com-City on South Pattaya Road. (Opens Mondays to Saturday from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m.). You will see a new exhibition by Pattaya Mail’s cartoonist M.J.B. which you can buy (every baht goes to the Pattaya Orphanage), plus each person who eats a meal and tells the management they have read about this restaurant in the Pattaya Mail can pick up one cheeky cartoon postcard free of charge.

Theme Buffet Evenings at the Montien Hotel, Pattaya: Tuesdays - Verandah Coffee Shop, Reef & Beef International BBQ Buffet Dinner, 6pm - 10pm, adults 650++ baht / children 350++ baht; Wednesdays - La Mer Restaurant, Mediterranean Buffet Dinner 6.30pm - 10pm, adults 550++ baht / children 300++ baht; Friday - Verandah Coffee Shop, BBQ & Seafood Buffet Dinner 6pm - 10pm, adults 650++ baht / children 350++ baht; Saturday - Verandah Coffee Shop, International Buffet Dinner 6pm - 10 pm, adults 550++ baht / children 300++ baht. Bring you family and friends. Sit back, relax and enjoy. For reservations please call 038-428155 ext 1620, 1621, E-mail; [email protected]

Events

The BCCT in co-operation with Premier Oilfield Services Co Ltd invites you to a BCCT networking evening on the Eastern Seaboard on Friday 19th January 2007 from 6.30 - 8.30 pm at JAMESONS, 80/164 Moo 9,Soi Sukrudee (Soi A.R.), Central Road, Pattaya City. Premier Oilfield Services Co Ltd is sponsoring selected beverages and snacks on a first-come, first-served basis from 6.30 pm. All other beverages are at standard prices as will the sponsored supplies have run out. Entry is free of charge for representatives of BCCT member companies. However, non-members must pay an entry fee of THB 500 per person. BCCT members may book on-line in the normal way. Non-members should email - rungji [email protected] with the names of those attending.

KPMG Royal Sundown Cocktail Party - 12/1/07 As part of the Royal Trophy 2007, Europe vs. Asia Golf Championship, KPMG is proud to host a Sundown Cocktail Party in the KPMG Marquee at the 18th Green at Amata Spring Country Club. Date: Friday 12th January 2007, Time: 4.30pm onwards, Cost: No charge. For more information and ticket reservation please contact: Matthew Johnson, KPMG, Tel: 02 677 2297, Email: matthewdjohnson@kpmg. co.th or Chanchira Ponthong, KPMG, Tel: 02 677 2888, Email: [email protected]

Join Mabuhay Divers on a monthly underwater clean-up of Pattaya Bay. Minimal fees apply for boat & equipment rental. Log on to wwwdiversthailand.com for details or email info @diversthailand.com

Liam’s Gallery presents an exhibition featuring works of emerging Thai and Asian artists - From now until 12th February 2007. Emphasis will be on affordable art for collectors interested in the younger generation of artists from Thailand and Asia. Also there’s an open house with wine and snacks every Friday 6pm - 8pm. Liam’s Gallery, Soi 4 Pratamnak. Tel. 66-0-38 25 18 08, Email: [email protected]

Gallery Opium, Pattaya announces an exhibition of work by resident & guest artists - “Pictures at an Exhibition”. This exhibition launches a new season of the gallery’s artists and inaugurates the opening of the new gallery space on the ground floor, as well as its expanding services. Visitors are welcomed to commission art works as well as discuss bespoke framing requirements. Due to popular demand the exhibition has been extended till 20 January 2007.

Other Gallery Opium art exhibitions in Pattaya include: Showcase at Sheraton Pattaya, 437 Pratamnak Road, Pattaya. Exhibition lasts throughout 2006/07 and features both international & Thai artists. Contact: Pawarnluck Prisajanan, tel. 038 259 888. Showcase at A-One The Royal Cruise Hotel, 499 North Pattaya Beach Road. A group exhibition of selected works from Gallery Opium’s resident & international artists. Lasts throughout 2006/07. Contact: Wipada Thanajungdawong, tel. 038 259 555. All artworks on display at both exhibitions are for sale. Email [email protected] url: www.galleryopium.com

Promotions

The Moon River Pub continues their draft beer promotion. For every liter of draft beer ordered, receive one stamp in your “Beer Card”. Collect nine stamps and get one liter of beer free. In front of the Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road.