Where/What We Ate > Where/What We Ate (15)
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Three Elephants Restaurant
This restaurant offers a full day cooking class that is supposed to be quite good for $25/pp.
Ambience: 7/10 Food: 7/10
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Three Elephants on Main Road in town
We were so excited to finally get to try Laotian food, and we weren't disappointed with this spread of authentic dishes including chicken casserole in coconut milk with vegetable (tasted almost like a Thai chicken curry), fried dried river moss topped with sesame seed served with chutney, steamed fish in a banana leaf that tasted a lot like gefilte fish, stir fry beef with very thick noodles, and sticky rice. We loved every single bite of it all!
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L'Elephant - Considered by many to be one of the best restaurants in town
French inspired cuisine was delicious -- the portions were huge as you can see from the next couple pictures.
Ambience: 8/10 Food: 8/10
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Brunch at Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel, which was lovely each morning
Ambience: 8/10 Food: 6/10
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Tamarind
If you're looking to experience genuine Lao food, a great find is the newly opened Tamarind, directly facing beautiful Wat Nong temple in the old quarter. Open only during the day, they specialise in tasting platters for sampling a range of Lao foods that you won't see in regular cafes, including original fruit drinks unlike anything else in Luang Prabang. Also worth noting are the traditional Lao style meals that can be ordered a day in advance. Cool enough, the owners name is Joy who walked us through how to eat the traditional meal with our fingers (I had never met a male named that!)
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Our tasting platters at Tamarind
This was the first time either of us had eaten a full-fledged meal without a single utensil besides our fingers. It was great fun kneading the sticky rice balls and scooping up the dips with them.
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Le Chedi Restaurant - Main Street in Luang Prabang
Another amazing authentic Laotian meal incleading minced fish cakes with lemongrass, shrimp with rice noodles and egg, a chicken and fresh herb salad and sticky rice. The only strange thing about the restaurant was we were the only two people eating there.
Ambience: 7/10 Food: 8/10
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JoMa Cafe -- on the main street of Luang Prabang
Acclaimed for being one of the best french bakeries in the town -- however, we skipped the baked goods, and opted for a taco salad which was delicious, and a sandwich. Check out the next picture of the sandwich we ended up with, which we only ate half of. We requested melted cheese on it -- little did we know this would an open face ginormous meal!
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Cote Sode Restaurant on the Mekong Shoreline, Vientiane
Great pizza, terrible wine. They filled the glasses way up, as you can see Jason sipping the overflowing vino from the glass.
Ambience: 6/10 Food: 6.5/10
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Rashim's Indian Fusion buffet lunch, Vientiane
IT's always a good sign when a restaurant is full of people WE enjoyed our $3 buffet lunch here, indulging in very fresh dishes.
Ambience: 7/10 Food: 8/10
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Dinner at Kualua, the supposed best restaurant in Vientiane
This meal was terrible -- the food all had very strange flavors, and we didn't end up eating much of it. The live Laotian Show was pretty cool.
Ambience: 6/10 Food: 6/10