Friday, December 29, 2006

Preparing to Usher in the New Year



Preparing for Christmas has been a very hectic time but I find that it was very rewarding as well. This year, Christmas Eve fell on Sunday. Unfortunately, Palla is off on Saturday and John had to work on Saturday afternoon and night. Since I needed a vehicle to purchase any last minute items, I had to take John to work on Saturday afternoon and then pick him up at 2am when the bar is closed.

I was up early on Saturday (about 9am) and started preparing the major cooking. Some preparation has been done over the last couple of days - like making the pastries...yucks, really do not like that as I do not make good pastries!!

Like last year, I stayed awake the whole night on Saturday, went to pick John at 2am and then continued to bake the pies and cook the rest of the stuff. By the time I finished, it was almost noon and I took a short nap - 1 hour nap!!.

Sunday night was good to us. We had many customers and the satisfaction on their faces after eating the meal makes me feel real good. I truly felt my time was well spent when I received the praises from the customers for the good food. Well, we ended up closing at 6am.

Now, the time has come for the New Year preparation. This time around, I think I will do something slightly different. No more pies because they take too much of my time. More like hotpots, casseroles, roasts and salads. Certainly hope that the crowd would like it just as much.

To all you readers, John and I wish you Happy New Year and may the new year bring you health, happiness and wealth.

Cheers

Friday, December 15, 2006

Christmas Eve Party in Viking Bar, Koh Samui

The time of the year is here again. And yes, we will be celebrating Christmas with our customers.

Like last year, we will be having a free buffet but this time, the buffet will start at 11pm on Christmas Eve night. We intend to have Swedish Meatballs, Ham, Pies, Quiches and much more for the buffet.

On top of this, all customers will get a Lucky Draw ticket for every 100 baht alcoholic drinks order. We will have two draws, one at 1am and another at 3am. The prizes for the lucky draws includes the famous Viking T-Shirt worth 350 baht, Whisky, Rum and others. The winner has to be present in the bar to claim the prize when the ticket is drawn.

Last year, we had quite good fun. We even had a free dance performance from 4 lovely girls from Malaysia. See our pictures from our photo album in our web site, www.vikingbar.net.

As for me, well, guess it is time to start preparing the menu and making the pastry. One nice thing though - I have had at least 3 offers from customers wanting to help in the cooking. Gosh, am I lucky this time around!!!

If any of you readers have ideas for making the party more enjoyable, please do let me know.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Viking Bar Online Store


We have finally setup our own online store to allow all our friends and customers to purchase some nice souveniors as gifts for friends or just for yourself.


All our T-shirts except for value line has printing on both the front and back. The front is our logo and the back has the year and address. As this year is about to end, the T-Shirts we have now is in limited quantities only.


We also have caps and mugs for our online store. However these items are not available in our shop in Koh Samui, Thailand.


We intend to expand our online store with more products for customers and also with interesting designs from Koh Samui, Thailand. If you have any ideas of what you would like to purchase, do drop us a note if you cannot find it in the store. Our email is judy@vikingbar.net or john@vikingbar.net or you may also drop us a note from our contact page in our website, www.vikingbar.net.


We are very excited over this online store and definitely look forward to improving it with quality products and new designs over period of time.