Back to Laos on Monday
Ghislain and have been back in Cambodia for three weeks which seem to have flown by, leaving us with less time than we’d have liked to work on the cookbook. There has so much...
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August’s FUN FAIR will be making headlines
The NEWS sets the scene for August’s FUN FAIR on the 14th of August, starting at a new time, from 8am to 12pm at the Mith Samlanh Center on street 13. This FUN FAIR...
A spicy Hmong feast
24 July 2010 Day 17 – Village at Km 52 Today we visited Cheng’s and Yearh’s village about 50 km outside of Vientiane capital, where they were going to cook traditional Hmong dishes for...
Back in the kitchen
23 July 2010 Day 16 – Vientiane I went to Makphet this morning to meet up with our cooking teacher Madame Vone, to go through all the dishes and recipes we have collected during...
Last day of traveling. For now.
22 July 2010 Day 15 – Khammuan province to Vientiane We started our day at 5:30 am. It was still raining, but that didn’t take anything away from the beauty and peace of the...
A sensory workout
21 July 2010 Day 14 – Savannakhet to Khammuan province Today is a big day for us. This we’ll be meeting a lady the makes a very famous fish Kao Peak. Then we’ll go...
A close encounter with an angry buffalo
20 July 2010 Day 13 – Pakse to Savannakhet The day started with another good breakfast so I knew it was going to be another good day. We decided before moving on to Savannakhet...
A coffee hangover?
19 July 2010 Day 12 – Pakse to Phakson district We left early this morning to drive to the Bolaven plateau to see the coffee plantations and to visit the Laven ethnic people, who...
Not that kind of game
18 July 2010 Day 11 – Pakse We finally had a good night’s sleep and a very nice breakfast, so we were ready for a full day of discovery and adventure. Ket had organized...
On the road again.
17 July 2010 Day 10 – Vientiane to Pakse Last night we had some drinks with the Peuan Mit team and some very interesting snacks such as chicken knuckles or tendons, fried eel, beef...
A bit of fun!
16 July 2010 Day 9 – Vientiane I went to Makphet this morning to meet up with Madame Vone our head cooking teacher, and Mr Sene our restaurant manager, to go through our notebooks...
Friends Building “No Future”
From: Sebastien Banda Aceh, Indonesia Tamo and I arrived in Aceh and went straight to the office to meet the team. The first thing we saw was our Mobile Center: it is entirely tagged...
Heading South
15 July 2010 Day 8 – Vang Veng to Vientiane Most of us did not have a good night sleep last night and all we wanted to do was to leave the guesthouse, have...
A noisy night.
July 14th 2010 Day 7 – Xieng Khuang to Vang Vieng Right on time at 6 am, our former students Seng and his wife Houa met us at our guesthouse and we decided to...
Magical Mushrooms
13 July 2010 Day 6 – Phonsavan Xieng Khuang’s capital Phonsavan is a very sleepy town but the people here are so very friendly I still cannot believe it. I have never encountered so...
