The Naklua Joy Restaurant is a true gem just thirty yards from my condo where the food is absolutely top drawer.
And yet, very few of my fellow condo residents gives Joy’s Home Restaurant a glance. From the outside it’s small and ordinary. But once you get inside the ambience is ten times better than you’d expect.
And Joy’s a master chef, second to none. And a very interesting Thai woman, who’s been to Russia over eight times. Courtesy of her ex Russian boyfriend.
Joy’s a perfectionist, and her cooking shows it. And she’s simply too much fun to hang out with.
So it didn’t take long for me to convince Nikky (who owns Nikky bar) to join me at the Naklua Joy restaurant. And while I was at it I brought Minny Mouse with me as my date.
Ok. So much with hyperbole. But the Minny Mouse is actually much cuter than she appears in that picture of her on the top of this page.
Minny Mouse’s real name isn’t Minny Mouse of course. I just happen to have a habit of renaming my favorite Thai women. I’m calling her Minny Mouse because she’s slender and relatively tall for a Thai woman. So I call her Minny Mouse to compliment her. Because I love slender Thai women to death. And Minny Mouse has gorgeous legs to boot. A model’s legs.
I shot a fantastic Pattaya Fireworks Show using my Nikon 750 camera at the Surf and Turf Restaurant on Wongamat Beach.
And I did it with my Nikon D750 camera on New Years Eve back in 2018. The video was so good that I don’t think I will ever shoot another fireworks show again. Everything turns out letter perfect. We had a great view of the fireworks going off several miles away at the Pattaya Bali Hi Pier. And I had my Nikon d750 camera. Which if you know anything about cameras nothing beats a good DSLR.
If you watch this video on your big screen and turn the speakers up I think you will find this Pattaya New Year’s Eve fireworks show to be earthshaking.
I had my Nikon 24-70 2.8 lens on the Nikon. And while that lens cost nearly as much as the camera and weighs in at one kilogram, it’s the goddess of all lenses.
I’m not going to disparage Canon, but for me, there’s nothing like a Nikon professional or semi pro Nikon.
It’s very intuitive and it simply fits. And it’s got all the little things we don’t think that much about that makes all the difference. Such as great balance and ultra smooth zooming that you just can’t get on a lesser camera.
And you won’t think about it, and won’t hear it mentioned in so many comprehensive camera reviews. But it’s got not one but two speakers inside the camera.
Which is one of the features of my Nikon 750 that created this fantastic Pattaya fireworks show.
Watching this video on your smartphone just doesn’t do it the justice it deserves. Whenever possible I shoot my digital in full HD resolution at 1920 by 780 pixels. So I can watch my own videos on my 55 inch 4 K television. I turn the volume up and listen to them on all 8 speakers.
This fantastic Pattaya fireworks show is like being on a battlefield being shelled by hundreds of rounds of enemy artillery. Not that I’ve ever been on a battlefield, but I’ve oftentimes found myself in the middle of many ferocious thunderstorms back when I was farming. And I can’t run off to escape it inside a building. Not when you are coming home on an open tractor 7 miles away.
Another thing that made that New Year’s Eve party back in 2018 so special is at midnight as the year changed from 2017 to 2018 I was drinking with a good Russian friend of mine.
And as a matter of fact, practically everyone around me if they weren’t Thai, were Russian.
When you watch this video, you just might form a different opinion of Russian people.
Anatoly waving me over to drink with him. Here at the Surf and Turf on New Year’s Eve, if they are not Thai they are Russian. And contrary to what you might expect, very stylish. As for the Russian women, so many of them are so beautiful. Watch this video and see for yourself.
Anatoly’s sitting with his beautiful wife and their daughter While I’m sitting a few tables away with my Thai girlfriend who by this time has just met a few Thai women.
Although I’ve got the camera, and the girls know it’s a top-of-the-line camera, I wind up feeling a little left out, until Anatoly rescues me.
They are all speaking in Thai and I’m bored to death. And then on my way to the restroom, Anatoly looks at me, and waves, inviting me to come drink with him.
Despite all the political drama between the U.S. and Russia I just happen to really like most Russians I meet here. So there’s this extra dimension to that fantastic Pattaya fireworks show I shot with my Nikon.
Only thing is, I wound up trading my Nikon D750 camera body in for the even better Nikon D780. Which shoots video just as well as the new mirror less cameras.
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I recommend the book I recently wrote about Pattaya. Pattaya Pattaya Pattaya Confessions of Sin City. Which starts out with the killing of the new chairman of the Fun House Condominium complex. The Russian mafia is suspected with the main suspect being the wealthy Russian owner of a red Ferrari.
Pattaya Blues Factory Gems captures that moment in time when Walking Street represented the glory days of Sin City.
Pattaya Blues Factory Gems prime attraction was Mary who could be Tina Turner’s twin sister. Except Mary is from the Philippines, dyes her hair blonde and in my opinion puts on an even better show than Tina Turner. And I’ve watched both. Mary and the Blues Machine many times here in Pattaya.
But that was 15 years ago. Long before the Virus and the smart phone changed the world forever.
The bar girls were prettier back then. More slender. And far more personable and caring. When live music was terrific, long before all that electronic noise took over.
Pattaya Blues Factory Gems took place time and time again. When our gang of expats gathered at the Blues Factory with our favorite bar girls of the moment.
A classic from the past, Pattaya Blues Factory starring, Mary, Tina Turner lookalike, from the Philippines.
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The center of attraction was Mary, an attractive Philipino vocalist who dyed her hair blonde who performed like a Tina Turner on steroids
Our fearless leader was Big Daddy, a U.S. strip club owner who was a great friend of mine for many years. So with Big Daddy leading our tribe there would be many Pattaya Blues Factory Gems to follow.
