Food: Talat Sao Shopping Mall has a food court on the 3rd floor.
The food is not as tasty as the tourist malls in Thailand. Looked at some of them handling raw meat and cooked food at the same time scared me.
Many of the restaurants used low quality msg 味精 that caused a tingling aftertaste on my tongue.
if u go any of the road side hawker shops / stalls, most of them offer decent food. Thai food, vietnam food, taste better than most i had in their respective countries. I think the key is to follow the local crowd. Go where most locals go, cant be wrong with the food. I dont speak thai, laotian or viet too. Use common sense to communicate with them.
most 3* to 3 1/2* hotels are friendly. except for the chain hotels
like what other bro said, drop them an email if you can have guests in your rooms or not.
if u go any of the road side hawker shops / stalls, most of them offer decent food. Thai food, vietnam food, taste better than most i had in their respective countries. I think the key is to follow the local crowd. Go where most locals go, cant be wrong with the food. I dont speak thai, laotian or viet too. Use common sense to communicate with them.
Gotta agree on that, for good and cheap foods, paying 30k for a bowl of noodles or fried rice is way too expensive.
for people looking for cheap food, try the street junction at chao anou road and rue setthathilath. there's plenty of foods there.
i recommend wanton noodles by a local lao chinese, the soup is good and it's cheap like 10 or 12k kip for a bowl of noodles.
some other roadside stalls would be along samsenthai road, there's a few stalls that does fried rice and noodles for 15k kip.
i will only pay more for american burgers or western food other things else are not that worth it. imho
Gotta agree on that, for good and cheap foods, paying 30k for a bowl of noodles or fried rice is way too expensive.
for people looking for cheap food, try the street junction at chao anou road and rue setthathilath. there's plenty of foods there.
i recommend wanton noodles by a local lao chinese, the soup is good and it's cheap like 10 or 12k kip for a bowl of noodles.
some other roadside stalls would be along samsenthai road, there's a few stalls that does fried rice and noodles for 15k kip.
i will only pay more for american burgers or western food other things else are not that worth it. imho
Lao beef noodles also called Pho like in Vietnam is already 20,000 kips in a local shop that's about USD2.22. Nothing is cheap in Laos.
Lao beef noodles also called Pho like in Vietnam is already 20,000 kips in a local shop that's about USD2.22. Nothing is cheap in Laos.
Yes, food is not really cheap in Vientiane as most stuff including petrol are imported, if you are comparing the food served by their smaller eating places and foodcourts with those in our Hawker Centres. However, if you are eating in a restaurant, the bill per head will definitely be substantially lower than the bill in Singapore. Moreover, the price for the rather excellent Lao beer is cheap.
One or two usd extra per meal don't really get to me. It is the workers handling raw meat and cooked food at the same time that scared me. I also felt that the food overall is not as tasty as the food in the tourist areas of Singapore or Thailand.
I am on a low sodium diet by doctor's order.
It seems to me that most third world countries including mainland China uses too much MSG and salt. Instead of using meat and other natural but more expensive ingredients, they just keep pouring more salt and msg into the pot.
Like one of our senior member said: one man's meat is another man's poison.
One thing I like about Laos is the local restaurants have the kitchen in the front for everybody to see and not hidden in the back. I have never had any stomach problems with the food here. But yes, lots of MSG and sugar usually on the table but also in the food. They use MSG like crazy here, even at home.
Now that the meat price has gone up with the pig deaths in china and the kip down, its all basically carbs and little protein.
So don't worry about the food but do be careful about the Dengue here, many cases this year. and Malaria even, although infrequent, does occur and is hushed up.
Yes, food is not really cheap in Vientiane as most stuff including petrol are imported, if you are comparing the food served by their smaller eating places and foodcourts with those in our Hawker Centres. However, if you are eating in a restaurant, the bill per head will definitely be substantially lower than the bill in Singapore. Moreover, the price for the rather excellent Lao beer is cheap.
as this is the 1st thing i went to pick up girls in the map coords 18.930074,102.455566
it's on the way to the waterfall in the daytime but in the night time, it becomes like a local chicken farms
there's like 10 houses or so in total, just go in, look at them and if you are happy just ask for the prices
1 of the nights at 12am i had my hotel owner helping me to call a van to ferry some girls over to choose from, came with 3 cute looking syt, picked 1 and settle for the night at 300k
there other night i went there with the hotel staff again in a bike around 9pm or so, so the taking out price is at 400k or if you can neg it maybe cheaper
but around 12am price will drop to 300k and even cheaper if there is girls still around (to around 250 or 200k)
but be warned, the girls in the place doesn't seem to have much gfe as compared to vientiane girls thou or maybe i did not stick around their beer house to build some rapport. 0 lao or thai for me anyway
there is another place along the main road but it's like 30mins ride away but this time round i did not go because it was raining 2 days in vv straight so roads are very bad, there you can find some viets around but their asking LT price is 100usd
Can you share the location there is another place along the main road but it's like 30mins ride away?
You should try khao piak, it's just a different type of noodles (like hand made thick rice noodles) and they are cheaper than pho
Yes I know khao piak which is about 5,000 . kips cheaper but I don't like it as much. Khao soy is much tastier but difficult to find. My favorite is still the Sin Dat, I find the sauce much tastier (thanks to MSG) than Thai Mokata
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