‘That Was The Year That Was’ – 2013 In Friends!
As we stand on the cusp of 2014, and the 20th Anniversary of Friends-International, please join us in looking back over the last 12 months of our activities and just some of the...
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Training, Love & Noodles – all together, building futures!
Young people from very poor communities in Vientiane Capital and Vientiane Province in Laos have very little opportunities to complete their primary education, and most of them do not progress to secondary school. Vocational...
The bees have been released!
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...
‘from Honeybees to Pepperwood’ – Lao cookbook launch
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...
Countdown in Laos
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...
An unusual competition…
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...
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...
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...
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...
More chili please!
11 July 2010 Day 4 – Luang Prabang Ghislain started the day earlier and got up at 5:30 am to take some more photos of Luang Prabang town. The morning light is great for...
Some of us are blessed…
9 July 2010 Day 2 – Luang Prabang We started the day at 5am by going to see the monks giving alms. It is very picturesque with the beautiful morning light and it was...
Geting used to early morning starts!
8 July 2010 Day 1 – Vientiane to Luang Prabang We were supposed to leave Vientiane at 7:30am but the driver, our guiding star Ket and our cooking teacher Madame Vone arrived 45 minutes...
Making Friends (cookbook) in Laos
Ever since we started our project in Laos and knew there was going to be a restaurant, we knew we just had to make a Lao cookbook too. Our other two cookbooks, The Best...
Friends cookbook wins at Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009
Friends-International’s cookbook From Spiders to Water Lilies, Creative Cambodian Cooking with Friends won two awards at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, held in Paris on July 1. The first award was for ‘Best Asian...
Enjoying for a good cause
Friends-International’s creative Cambodian recipe book ‘From Spiders to Water Lilies’ was successfully launched in Germany in December 2008. Featuring exquisitely colorful photographs of Cambodia and its buzzing markets and presenting an impressive variety of...
