Tuesday, June 30, 2009
May 21st A trip to Lakeside - Thai style.
On Thursday 21st May we had a fairly lazy day with Jamie and Mam. There would have been the normal taking the children to school and picking them up again later.
There would have been homework to do.
I should get a few pictures of homework time on the blog - maybe tomorrow.
The 4 adults went to Lakeside..... now millions of people do that in South East England, it being a huge shopping mall, which has become a place of pilgrimage for the shop worshippers.
As you will see the Lakeside Restaurant we visited is as far removed from a huge shopping mall as is possible.
This cafe, a little off the beaten track, is owned by Jamie and Mam's friend Nueng (Noong).
She is a very sweet woman and cooks really well!
Jamie has already done a short piece on his blog about this cafe - so look there for further information and pictures.
https://www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2009/05/restaurant-tip-lakeside.html
Mam.
Waiting for our food to be cooked.
Ah - here we have some food!
I can't remember exactly what these dishes contained - but all was very tasty.
A motto that we should all take to our hearts perhaps.
There would have been homework to do.
I should get a few pictures of homework time on the blog - maybe tomorrow.
The 4 adults went to Lakeside..... now millions of people do that in South East England, it being a huge shopping mall, which has become a place of pilgrimage for the shop worshippers.
As you will see the Lakeside Restaurant we visited is as far removed from a huge shopping mall as is possible.
This cafe, a little off the beaten track, is owned by Jamie and Mam's friend Nueng (Noong).
She is a very sweet woman and cooks really well!
Jamie has already done a short piece on his blog about this cafe - so look there for further information and pictures.
https://www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2009/05/restaurant-tip-lakeside.html
Nueng's husband is British - Charlie.
He received some degree of notoriety when the mining company he was working for in The Gambia were accused of cheating the Gambian government. Charlie wasn't even there at the time all this was supposed to have happened.
But he was arrested and held under house arrest for months, awaiting trial. There was quite a campaign mounted to free Charlie.
Here is one web site, amongst many, about him.
The setting for Lakeside Restaurant was lovely - and seemed a million miles from the very bustling brash resort of Patong.
I can see by comments on Jamie's blog that there are others who really do like to escape all of that.
Hello young lovers!
My boy will always seem young to me, despite now being 40 years old.
Mam.
Waiting for our food to be cooked.
Ah - here we have some food!
Of course there was lots of rice.
The first plate of food is deep fried tofu in a sweet chilli sauce.
I can't remember exactly what these dishes contained - but all was very tasty.
A motto that we should all take to our hearts perhaps.
