Birthday cake

We were all invited to one of our Thai assistants' birthday party at her house. The farang teachers all clubbed together and bought this ice cream cake from Swensen's (a dessert restaurant similar to Milky Lane).  The cake was delicious, but then again at a whopping 780THB it had to be...

Full size cakes in Thailand are ridiculously expensive and I for one would rather just have baked one, had I actually had an oven...  Another little Thailand curiosity. In our Thai-style townhouse we have a room that serves as a kitchen, but other than a wooden table, a fridge and a microwave, the room didn't come with anything else you'd find in a conventional kitchen.  The Thais don't use kitchens and tend to do most of their cooking either in the lounge or outside in their front courtyard.  Even in the more modern houses, where you might be spoiled with kitchen counters and cabinets and if you're really lucky a gas hob and a sink, you still will not find an oven.