at the
Mali Nam Phu Hotel
The Chef
Oanh, the chef, is from Vietnam. Vietnamese, Laotian (Isaan), European, Chinese, and Thai dishes. She does it all, and fast.
What happened
Yes, that’s the same Oanh who previously ran a restaurant downstairs at the Rainbow hotel. Oanh prefers to be addressed as either An or Mama. So now you know how to quickly get her attention.
Lots of fun and a friendly ambience aside, the Rainbow Hotel proved not to be the right place to run a profitable restaurant. The rent was rather high and budgets of many a guest a bit on the low side. Oanh, the chef, decided to move place.
Oanh started to look for something more suitable to her needs and ambition to run a more upgraded restaurant. Then one day, still downtown at walking distance from the Rainbow Hotel she found an existing restaurant waiting for a new managing chef. Inside the Mali Nam Phu that is.
The Mali Nam Phu is a 2 star hotel with a long standing reputation of excellence.
To the test
We couldn’t resist checking it out ^_^
Marvellous … copious … highly nutritious.
We just loved the extended variety of dishes to choose from.
A rich choice of food
The menu though, needs a bit of editing. Categories are not clearly listed. If you are for instance looking for continental food, you eventually will find it listed tucked in between some very different kinds of cuisine. Then again … it’s there.
There is Lao food, Thai food, Chinese food, lots of Vietnamese dishes, and … Western food, such as the good old French Fries
Oanh the musician
Sometimes, late at night, when guests have become friends, the ambience is set for Oanh, the chef. to play the guitar. Lest we not forget … she is a musician and composer.
We will be back, for sure!
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