by Friends-International · Published July 7, 2011 · Last modified April 30, 2014
Casual shorts and hoodie from the new 240 men range. friends@240 has launched its brand new collection ‘240 men’. The collection includes casual shorts, hoodies and new T-shirt designs in light cotton fabrics and natural...
An EverydayHero's life / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published June 27, 2011 · Last modified April 30, 2014
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Sakun, production manager of friends@240. My name is Sakun and I work as the Production Manager for the shop friends@240 in Phnom...
Events / Laos - Peuan Mit / Launches and Openings / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published June 8, 2011
It was 11 months and 6 days ago when our cookbook team began working on the new Lao cookbook – ‘from Honeybees to Pepperwood’. Tonight (June 2nd) all of that hard work came to...
Events / Laos - Peuan Mit / Launches and Openings / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published May 27, 2011
The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and Friends-International invite you to join us in celebrating the launch of our new cookbook on Thursday 2nd June, Makphet Restaurant, Vientiane, Laos PDR. If you are...
Events / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published February 25, 2011 · Last modified April 22, 2014
It was 10 years ago, on February 23 2001 to be exact, that ‘Friends the Restaurant’ first opened its doors to a hungry and expectant public. Over those ten years it has more than...
News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published January 25, 2011 · Last modified April 30, 2014
friends@240 proudly presents its new clothing and accessories line! New cuts and prints in store for you – now! In typical funky ‘Friends’ style, fashion meets recycling, transforming into a range of unique products....
Our last week in Laos was extremely busy as we still had to complete the other half of the dishes. Thanks to the support of our amazing team, we finished all of the dishes...
Last Saturday, The Makphet team was invited to take part in a local competition to create dishes made with insects. The event took place in Vientiane and many restaurants competed. Madame Vone and the...
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...
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...
Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published July 23, 2010
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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