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Community Happenings is an opportunity for all clubs, businesses, hotels, restaurants and entertainment outlets to inform the Pattaya Mail’s readers what new “happenings” are coming up. Send us your happening by email to: [email protected] or by fax 038 427 596.

Announcements

The Norwegian Embassy takes pleasure in inviting all Norwegians to a meeting on Friday February 27 at 2 p.m. at the Jomtien Garden Hotel. This meeting is being arranged to give the embassy an opportunity to meet all Norwegians in the area and present its consular staff. Further it gives residents and visiting Norwegians an opportunity to give valuable feedback about the embassy’s work procedures and service. For the embassy, such dialog is useful in order to provide the best possible service and create the best possible relationship between itself and the users. You will be meeting Consul Bj๘rn Bjerkaas and Attaché Thomas Bronder from the embassy, Consul Stig Vagt-Andersen from the consulate in Pattaya and Hilde Sirnes, the Norwegian pastor at the Scandinavian Church in Bangkok.

Clubs

Pattaya City Expats Club meets on Sunday mornings at Henry J Beans Restaurant and Pub at the Amari Orchid Resort at the north end of Beach Road from 9:30-10:30 a.m. for buffet breakfast, and from 10:30-12:30 for entertaining speakers and open forum. Everyone welcome.

Dining

Pizza And Pasta Festival Every Friday in the Tropical Garden, Amari Orchid Resort from 7 p.m. for 330 baht ++ per person. Join in an Italian evening in the lush tropical gardens as Amari’s chef creates a wonderful buffet with home style cooking. Enjoy the antipasto or create your own pasta dish. A full dessert buffet is also available and the house band will entertain all night long. Also, don’t miss Ladies Night every Monday. Ladies buy one drink and get one for free at the Henry J. Bean’s Bar and Grill, Beach Road in North Pattaya.

Shenanigans the Irish Pub has increased its Monday Specials to start at 12 midday on both Monday and Tuesday. Monday there is a three-course menu, with two choices for each course for 199 baht. Tuesdays is a full Shenanigans meal for 100 baht, check Shenanigans boards for menus. Shenanigans Pattaya is located on Second Road, in front of the Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa.

For the month of February, Hans Banziger and his team at the Paradise Restaurant have again prepared a new food promotion, featuring osso bucco, ostrich stroganoff, fresh rainbow trout fillet with almonds, ox tongue with madeira sauce, Australian lamb fillet with a sage stuffing and rock lobster valentine. For those who look for something different, the Paradise Restaurant is Pattaya’s first and only restaurant specializing in exotic food, including ostrich, kangaroo, emu, crocodile and deer, a dining experience you won’t regret and forget. Open daily from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Located opposite the Royal Garden Plaza and Marriott Resort, 215/62-63 on 2nd Road. Tel./Fax: 038 723 17.

Herbal Happiness at Marco Polo Chinese Restaurant, Montien Hotel Pattaya. Chinese herbal soups are renowned for their medicinal properties and appetizing savoury characteristics: braised fish soup with herbs; herbal soup with bamboo pith; sea cucumber, fresh maw and black mushroom soup with herbs. What a delicious way to stay well! For reservations please call 038 428 155 ext 1620-1, email; [email protected]

Seafood Basket at the Bay Restaurant, Dusit Resort Pattaya. For the whole month of February, Chef Mike Drews, head chef at the Bay Restaurant, selects the freshest seafood to serve you daily during lunch and dinner, except on Saturday evenings, while the hotel already is serving its famous BBQ dinner buffet including the best catches of the sea! Therefore, if a Saturday evening is not convenient for you or just you do not appreciate buffets, then make a point, book a table at the Bay Restaurant on any other day, order Mike’s freshly prepared seafood baskets (single servings available) and enjoy this treat at only 450 baht net per person. For reservations, please call 038 425 611-7 ext 2149 or 2150.

Don’t miss the theme buffet evenings at the Montien Hotel Pattaya; Verandah Coffee Shop on Tuesdays: Asian buffet dinner 6 p.m. to10 p.m. Wednesdays at La Mer Restaurant its Mediterranean buffet dinner from 6.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. On Friday it’s back to the Verandah Coffee Shop with a BBQ & seafood buffet dinner from 6 till 10 p.m. and on Saturday don’t miss the international buffet dinner. Pamper yourself with the exceptional variety of all-you-eat favourites, dazzlingly laid out for an evening of leisurely dining. Bring you family and friends. Sit back, relax and enjoy. For reservations and information call 038 428 155 ext. 1620-1 or email: [email protected]

Entertainment

The Moon River Pub still has their Beer Promotion. Every guest who buys one liter of beer receives a beer card. After consuming 9 liters of beer you will get one liter free of charge. The card is valid for 3 months. Please note that this promotion is only valid for draft beer and not for bottles (every liter of beer ordered will be market on the card) and don’t miss the final 2 to 3 weeks left for InXchange to perform at the Moon River Pub. The new band “Nightshift” will start in March. They will also continue to play evergreens, soul and blues, top forties and charts, rock and roll. Always a fun night out at the Moon River Pub, Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road.

Events

BCCT & AMCHAM in cooperation with Waste Management Siam Ltd invites you to an International Networking Evening on the Eastern Seaboard on Friday February 20 from 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at the Environmental Complex, 88 Moo 8 Chonburi Industrial Estate, Tambon Bowin, Sriracha (for a location map contact Khun Sutthida Fakkum, public, community and government relations manager at Waste Management Siam on Tel: 0 2261 0264-7 or email: sutthida. [email protected]). The entry fee is free for BCCT and AMCHAM members. However, there is an entry fee for non-members of 500 baht per person.

Milan Crosse Partners Ltd. will hold their next Pattaya Networking Dinner on Thursday February 26 at the Art Café, North Pattaya, starting with drinks at 6.30 p.m. and dinner at 7.30 p.m. Cost is now 800 baht for everything. Reserve your seats by faxing 02 676 2266 or email: [email protected]

Exhibitions

Art Café features an art exhibition entitled ‘Silent Storms’ featuring the works of another young artist originating from Bangkok but living and working in Pattaya. Chaiwichit ‘Joe’ Sappaso studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Khon Khaen University and in 2001 won the Lefranc Painting Contest. Even though he studied with oil, pastels, sketching, photography, watercolors and acrylic, he has chosen watercolors as he finds them fresh and detailed as can be seen in his work. The Art Café is optimistically looking again on the young talent living here among the community and is quite sure that his first exhibition at the Art Café will further contribute to his growth. The exhibition will commence on Monday February 23 with a cocktail reception in the garden from 7 p.m. and a ‘family style’ dinner after the official opening, at 8 p.m. Price for unlimited cocktails and the 4-course ‘family style’ dinner is 950 baht net including service charge and tax. Please make your reservations well in advance; contact the Art Caf้ on 038 367 652, 01 832 6031 or email: [email protected]

Promotions

New container arrived at Kala๋ Pattaya - Come visit the showroom and check for yourself the fine antique furniture just arrived from China ... enjoy the widest range of cabinets, chests, tables, desks and other furniture at a very special 25% discount till February 29.

If you’re interested in Thai Cuisine then go along to the popular Thai Cooking Classes at the Siam Bayview Hotel, and learn something new! Their chefs love to pass on skills to those willing to learn in a ‘hands-on’, fun-filled class, cooking popular Thai dishes. Once you’re done sit down and enjoy the feast you have prepared. Classes are open from midday till 7 p.m. for 750 baht net per person. Contact the guest relations officer at the Siam Bayview Resort to arrange a day for your class, tel. 038 423 871-6.

Are you getting married, and need to celebrate your wedding in style? Let the wedding planner take care of all your party details. Contact Kannikar at the Captain’s Corner, 01 745 2130 for further information.

The Devarana Spa offers 30% off on selected Algotherm body care products made from seaweed extracts harvested from France’s Brittany Coast to give you the ultimate relaxation and well being. Revitalize your skin and enjoy the ultimate results today with exfoliating and foaming body scrub, thermo active slimming gel and more! For more information contact the Devarana Spa, Pattaya at Dusit Resort. Tel: 038 371 044, email: pattaya @devarana.com

Chocolate Spa Package is the new choice of valentine’s present for lovers offered by Centara Spas. Cocoa beans have been researched that they contain hormone analogs that are very much akin to those we give off when we are deeply involved in a romantic encounter. Cocoa is also rich in vitamin A and E, which are important for cellular repair and rejuvenation as well as increasing blood circulation. For lovers, Package 1: “Chocolate Kisses” or Package 2: “Chocolate Lovers”. Centara’s “Orange Peal” treatment sloshes away the dead skin cells before the “After Dinner Mint” massage provides the vital moisture that is essential to healthy skin. Then plunk in the “Whipped Cocoa Bath” in Jacuzzi bathtub! With compliments after any treatment, enjoy two slices of rich chocolate cake and two glasses of sparkling wine, available until April 30 in all 8 Centara Spas. Individual chocolate treatments such as Dark Chocolate Body Wrap, Chocolate Orange Peel, After Dinner Mint Massage and Packages like “Choc Dipped”, “Chocoholic”. For more information, please call on tel. 02 937 2222 ext. 4449, 4208, fax:02 937 0764, website: http://www.centaraspa.com