Laos - Vientiane Restaurants and Bars
The thread of where to eat, where to drink, which are the best and worst places in Vientiane, actually I have to admit I was not disappointed with any of the restaurants we went to, ok the bars weren't quite on par with Soi Yodsak in Pattaya, but we didn't go there for the girls, although they are pretty damn good looking and quite friendly towards us nasty farangs, plus my friend is a TEFLer so he can't do those sort of nasty things us normal folks do, plus he is married aswell and his wife was with us so he didn't stand a chance.
So first restaurant is The Sweet Corner on Sihom Road which was opposite where we stayed at the Sihom Hotel Guesthouse place.
Actually Vientiane is pretty good for food, we done French food, Indian restaurants and still missed out on loads of other stuff like Pizza and that.
This restaurant I think is owned by a farang and is about 500 meters from the main street of restaurants by the Mekhong River.
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Nice outdoor area for eating, never did see anybody eating inside but this is a newly opened restaurant.
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The breakfast, scrambled eggs, bacon, ham and a roll.
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Mine was ham and cheese baguette with french fries, this cost about 70baht, funny thing is coffee cost 35baht while a large beer Laos cost 30baht, I really should have started drinking in the day time :)
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Backpackers menu for the restaurant.
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It's about 28,000kip to 100baht or 3 US dollars, so that gives you an idea of the prices, personally I think the prices, food quality and selection is way ahead of Thailand, maybe it would have been good for Thailand if they had been taken over by the French.
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Thai and french food in Vientiane
We shall get to the lovely Indian restaurants in Vientiane later, for now lets stick with European food, although this place also done Thai food.
This is Addy Restaurant, it's on the wrong side of the road to be viewing the Mekhong river, but most of those places are for the night time, anyway we needed sandwiches or baguettes as the nasty French call them, these cost between 10,000 and 20,000 kip, ie 30 to 60baht so they aint gonna break the bank.
Cigarettes in Vientiane cost about 10baht per packet for the Laos and Chinese ones so they are quite a bargain.
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Only reason we were inside was that it started raining.
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Look at that lovely cheese and ham baguette, about 15,000kip.
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This is my sausage and cheese roll, not sure what butter they use but it sure does taste good :)
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Indian Restaurants in Vientiane - Laos
This picture of NaZim Indian Restaurant i took in the day time, got to admit that evening it was a difficult choice between Indian or Mexican food, yep, there is that much choice in Vientiane.
Again this restaurant is down by the river Mekhong and on the wrong side of the road, but hell, who cares when your eating lovely Indian food.
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So we got 3 curries, 2 rice and a mint nan bread, with a beer each the whole lot came to about 300baht, yep, Vientiane is damn cheap for food and beer.
So going from left to right let me introduce you to our dinner, vegetable curry, chicken madras, rogan josh, the rogan josh was my favourite, the mint nan bread was the first time I had eaten that, normally go for cheese or garlic.
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Close up picture of the mint nan bread.
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The lovely rogan josh, chicken it was.
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Some of the menu.
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Vientiane - Mekhong river Restaurants and bars
Ok first up we got the Carlsberg bar boat on the mighty Mekhong river, this is a bar for the evenings, soft drinks cost half of what beer does so are not really worth drinking, 35baht a big beer sounds good to me.
The river you can see is flowing about as strongly as I can piss after a few beers, so mighty may not be the right word to describe it.
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One of many similar restaurants on the banks of the river Mekhong.
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Would look so much better if there was some water in the river.
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Becoming a millionaire in Lao
So you want to be rich and look good in the street cafes of Laos?
Time to get some Lao Kip, for 4,000baht or about 120 US dollars you can become a Laos Millionaire, although I should mention that a note as small as a 500kip note wouldn't actually buy you anything, I was in an internet cafe, my bill came to 2,500kip, I gave her 5,000kip note, she gave me 2,000kip and 3 boiled sweets for change :(
The beer costs about 10,000kip for a large bottle, ie about 1 US dollar :)
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