What the Phuket?

We celebrated a friend's birthday at Phuket, a Thai restaurant, and I ordered one of their notorious volcanoes of liquor for our group (complete with a burning centerpiece). I clearly did this in violation of German Birthday Traditions (wherein the birthday boy would have bought everything for his guests) but I'm American so I'm immune on this one ;)

Anyway, we got a volcano bowl with a really weird...hula dancer? Mutant? Mutilated ceramic figure? What is going on with this weird little creature?!