Mother’s day and Laem Cha-Roen Seafood

Tom Yum Fish

August 12th, 2014

It is mother’s day in Thailand which is a National holiday.  Mother’s day coincides with the reigning Queen’s Birthday.  That meant restaurants were going to be packed.  Sophon is from Thailand so I met them for an early dinner.  His mother is 80, half my size but is what we would call a pistol.  I would have never guessed she was her age.

She had decided between three places at the Central Mall and we would go into the mall and the first one we found would be the one we would eat at.  The first one we found was Laem Cha-Roen Seafood and I really loved that place.  Ironically, I found that she was looking at ordering the same things I was.

After dinner, she wanted to check out the grocery store on the top floor of the mall.  I am always up for a grocery store – especially in a foreign country.  Let me tell you for an 80 year old, she certainly can move, she bee-lined it right to the bakery section looking for bread.    My kind of person!

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