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Just down the road from our Guest House is a small cafe with a Buddhist temple/wat across the road. The owners are an Australian woman and a Lao man who make fabulous and creative Lao food and also have a small "cooking school" with one day classes, etc.
We had this dessert there for a late lunch meal and it was fabulous...
The Lao young man is the second youngest of 9 children from a mountain village and was basically fending for himself from early childhood; foraging in the woodlands, etc. for food.
He was given 50 cents at age 11 by his father and sent alone to Luang Prabang, where he had never been, and told to ask to be taken in by the monks..... he managed to become a skilled cook with the monks and used his childhood foraging and food experiences to create wonderful meals.
Later, he left the monks, worked for short time locally and then started this litttle restaurant with his Australian partner. This is only a superficial rendering of their story, of course, but is a typical story for many Lao. I will try to post a pic of the dessert and a pic of the view of the Wat Temple from inside the cafe........LP is a magical mystery place with many such stories.
We had this dessert there for a late lunch meal and it was fabulous...
The Lao young man is the second youngest of 9 children from a mountain village and was basically fending for himself from early childhood; foraging in the woodlands, etc. for food.
He was given 50 cents at age 11 by his father and sent alone to Luang Prabang, where he had never been, and told to ask to be taken in by the monks..... he managed to become a skilled cook with the monks and used his childhood foraging and food experiences to create wonderful meals.
Later, he left the monks, worked for short time locally and then started this litttle restaurant with his Australian partner. This is only a superficial rendering of their story, of course, but is a typical story for many Lao. I will try to post a pic of the dessert and a pic of the view of the Wat Temple from inside the cafe........LP is a magical mystery place with many such stories.
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