Does your Thai family celebrates birthdays?

[Crazy chef 1]

Happy birthday CC..

Thanks my friend.

[villagefarang]

We usually celebrate birthdays but we are not very traditional about when or where. If it is convenient we might get together with friends around the date but not necessarily on it. Sometimes a purchase is made and to justify the expense we may say to the other, this is your birthday present. I am not big on ritual, ceremony or tradition so my wife is usually the main instigator. We seem to have an understanding about these things.

[DrTuner]

Yes, standard issue cake, beer, food, happy birthday song type of events.

[Gracas]

It was my Birthday last month. My wife told me what she wanted for her Birthday. Me, I got FA.

[Crazy chef 1]

What a surprise she just came home from work with a cake and a present...happy BD CC...

[jpb1963]

i asked my GF what she wanted to do for her birthday in January and she said go to temple, simple

[1FinickyOne]

I'll get a cake for my niece - she is 10 - and maybe even a present but nobody else in the family even mentions a birthday, theirs or otherwise - they do help eat the cake with my niece… I don't like to celebrate my own so that works well for me...

[Jeffkp]

I go to a large Thai restaurant in CM to eat quite often. They have a live band and it seems that at least twice each visit they play "happy birthday" for someone...

[louse1953]

I think it's a common knowledge Thais don't really celebrate it.

My "hiso" gf surely did for convenience.

My current one doesn't, but she will remember it and always asks me what I want.

Thais don't celebrate birthdays...really? You don't so all Thais don't.

So, at our house birthdays are always celebrated, adults and kids alike. We buy the gelatin style cakes for the kids, easy for them to eat. balloons, music, some easy foods like buffalo wings, yam, couple boxes of Leo, 3 to 4 bottles of booze. The kids run wild, the ladies on the soi come over to help cook the food, sing Happy Birthday. Presents not necessary.

So you supply everything for a party,irrelevant if it's somebodies birthday.When have you known Thais to knock back a party.

[Saan]

i asked my GF what she wanted to do for her birthday in January and she said go to temple, simple

That reminded me, I had just bought a first aid kit when my wife and Useless were going to the temple for his 14th birthday. My new first aid kit headed off to the temple so the birthday boy would gain merit. I am not sure how the system works but apparently if you take someone else's property and give to the temple you gain merit.

[thehelmsman]

I think it's a common knowledge Thais don't really celebrate it.

My "hiso" gf surely did for convenience.

My current one doesn't, but she will remember it and always asks me what I want.

Thais don't celebrate birthdays...really? You don't so all Thais don't.

So, at our house birthdays are always celebrated, adults and kids alike. We buy the gelatin style cakes for the kids, easy for them to eat. balloons, music, some easy foods like buffalo wings, yam, couple boxes of Leo, 3 to 4 bottles of booze. The kids run wild, the ladies on the soi come over to help cook the food, sing Happy Birthday. Presents not necessary.

So you supply everything for a party,irrelevant if it's somebodies birthday.When have you known Thais to knock back a party.

I have no problem flipping for booze and food,.neighbors provide help prepping and cooking, mixing drinks. Booze runs out people chip in to buy more. Should have seen the party we had when the house was finished, Now that was obscene, it lasted 4 days.

[jpb1963]

i asked my GF what she wanted to do for her birthday in January and she said go to temple, simple

That reminded me, I had just bought a first aid kit when my wife and Useless were going to the temple for his 14th birthday. My new first aid kit headed off to the temple so the birthday boy would gain merit. I am not sure how the system works but apparently if you take someone else's property and give to the temple you gain merit.

ah that sheds some light - we chat via we chat when i am at work and she says fairly often that she has gone to temple to give me or get me merit (sometimes it philanthropy lol… but i guess thats google translate for you haha) i have tried asking but it gets lost in translation so i gave up...

its interesting she is a village girl and they have bugger all and she will give to her mum, temple sister or whatever before she will get a thing for herself, such selfless people. After the money grubbing wife in oz its such a refreshing change.

[Typingdog]

We do . Ususally we will wake up to make merit at morning ตักบาตร์ and bought cake to happy birthday. That is what my family do

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[TheCruncher]

What a surprise she just came home from work with a cake and a present...happy BD CC...

I think she's a member here

[Sabaidee Mai]

No don't celebrate, but I never celebrated when in the UK, so no change.

[TheCruncher]

Apparently Thai women have 5 or 6 birthdays every year !

How else you think they could be in 2558 already?

[colinneil]

My wife and i always celebrate our birthdays.

Cake and small party just for family.

I am so pleased there are only 2 of us. Only have to suffer family at our home twice per year.

[rct99q]

very broad statement, "thais dont celebrate birthdays".

no bigger celebrations then those for the king & Queens birthdays.

My family celebrated birthdays long before i showed up 12 years ago. I always get 100 to 300 baht from various family members. My wife keeps track and the "gift" is returned to the family member on their birthday. Must go to one nearly every week. If we know them well wife will arrive early and help prepare. If we dont we show up for dinner, eat, drink, and leave. Always a good time.

[Gonsalviz]

January 1 is everyone gets a year older. The actual date you are born is of little significance.

[ozyjon]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh,

don't mention it

don't talk about it

i love this country, no birthday, no christmas, love it.

I stopped the video at 56sec, gave me a headache.

[gomangosteen]

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Traditionally Thais don't celebrate birthdays but they are happy to celebrate anything - Christmas, Thanks Giving, The Somali New Year, anything.

"some'' perhaps

Come to Chanthaburi, where Easter is also celebrated, Stations of the Cross re-enacted, and even televised. Christmas, parade and events at the Catholic schools and churches. There are five of each within 15 min of our home, two schools and a church within the town itself.

Our town on Xmas Eve hosts a big parade and Christmas celebration. There is a cathedral 10min away in Chan city, and the congregation celebrated 300 years of churches on that site in 2011, the current gothic one completed in 1909, three years after the French occupation ended

Maybe they left a legacy of birthday parties? Or do we thank the Vietnamese Christians who built the first church in 1711? Or the descendants of seafaring Chinese traders?

[balo]

My lot always did if I bought the cake and present, which I liked doing.

I had my wife on the ropes, her birthday was 3 days after mine. No present for me, bad luck her.

It was only the gesture I was after.

Traditionally Thais don't celebrate birthdays but they are happy to celebrate anything - Christmas, Thanks Giving, The Somali New Year, anything.

Of course they are happy to celebrate , any day can be a birhday as long as a farang is paying the bill.

[chilli42]

I could not be bothered celebrating birthdays, what's the big deal? My Thai wife, her family and all of her large group of friends all have epic birthday celebrations - party or dinner/club with a hundred of their closest fiends. So my sample says ... farangs could not be bothered with birthdays and Thais love them. My experience in Thsiland is that any excuse for having fun is good enough ... what other country celebrate new year three times? Don't get me started on Christmas!

PS the only thing I never understood is why the celebrant has to pick up the tab at the end of the birthday festivities. Perhaps this accounts for the enthusiastic participation buy friends and family.

[MauiSteveBKK]

I believe "some" but not many Thai people celebrate birthdays.

It depends a bit on income and status.

Some of my Thai Wife's family in Tha Bo (west of Nong Khai) are not exactly sure of their birthday.

Her Mother and Father don't have any idea what month or year they were born.

Same for her brothers and sisters.

My wife was born at the house in the Homeland --- and had to go to amphur in Nong Khai to get

an "Official" birth certificate for the USA Embassy and to bring to the USA.

[JHolmesJr]

Anyone noticed how they always seem to be celebrating someones birthday in a beer bar….usually some girl will have a garland of 100-500 baht notes clipped to it and you are meant to add to it.

Delightfully tacky.

[bdenner]

Normally just a few words and peck on the cheek, after the first 2 years of a 14 year marriage.

Always a special occasion for TW's daughter going from teens to early 20's! Her birthdays = a weekly allowance pay rise and cash supplement. She continues to be fully supported whilst studying and attending collage full time.

The crumbs from Sin Sod --- will be my final reward!

[fang37]

No birthdays celebrated here BUT

many happy bird-days.

[Crazy chef 1]

Normally just a few words and peck on the cheek, after the first 2 years of a 14 year marriage.

Always a special occasion for TW's daughter going from teens to early 20's! Her birthdays = a weekly allowance pay rise and cash supplement. She continues to be fully supported whilst studying and attending collage full time.

The crumbs from Sin Sod --- will be my final reward!

God damn my one is a son...though no sin sod rewards...

[jpb1963]

I am up for beers on my birthday not entirely sure what the rest of the population is doing.

[NoshowJones]

Mr Chef, I don't even know when Mrs Possums birthday is.