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Hi I been to this restaurant few week ago i think is called Kong Khao it is a really nice place no far from Novotel, with a big garden, the serve some really good lao food. They also play good music the owner also told me that it is the cultural center of the town. It is a good place to hang out and meet some friends.

I'd ask the people at your guest house to point you to a pho (pronounced fuh) restaurant. Most neighborhoods have one and it's a mid morning staple. Restaurants specialize in it. I'd also ask to be pointed towards a kao piak restaurant. It's also a breakfast food of stick to your ribs noodles and either pork or chicken broth.

A very good trick is to eat what and where the Lao people do. Very few eat at sit down restaurants as we do. Mostly they get it off the to go carts as can you. When you smell barbeque follow your nose and buy some of the pork, it's local and farm raised, they sell sticky rice on the side. Also get a French bread sandwich when you see them pre made and stacked up in piles. Premade you eat all the same ingredients as the locals, there are things in there you might miss out on otherwise. It's called pate with an accent grave over the E. pronounced pah-tay.

For the evening just eat at those outside tables down by the Mekong like everyone else. Prices are a little steep and the food is hit or miss but it's what everyone does. Beer same same.

I prefer Khao Piak to pho by a long way. There is a very good Khao Piak restaurant at the top of Rue Pangkham on the lhs.
#2 has been spamming a number of sites with his restaurant. I suspect he is the owner.