Kabe&Ko Culinary experiences worth travelling for
Culinary round trips - Southeast Asia
Asia is a dream destination. Let your dream come true thanks to our brochure. On our menu are different delicious trips. And you can be sure: on each game fit a lid. Each destination has a starter, a main course and offcourse a dessert. The starter of each destination is culture combined with cooking demonstrations where you can taste delightful food. The main course is culture combined with making your own food and going to markets with the owner of the restaurant or cooking school. The dessert of each destination is going on a cooking trip with a famous Belgian chef. The chefs who will join our trips are Jeroen Meus in Laos, Piet Huysentruyt in Malaysia and Wout Bru in Vietnam. Tasting for the first time a piece of Asia? Take a look in our offer of Malaysia. A culinary and cultural mix of European and Eastern smells and colors. Do you feel more for the specialty of the chef? Take Laos as main course. A varied menu of ingredients offers you the possibility to assemble your ideal menu. Our specialists want to help you with your dream destination. Have a nice trip! ( our names)
Welcome to Kabe&Ko! Kabe and Ko is a young, dynamic Belgian tour operator. The people behind Kabe & Co wish to share their passion for foreign cultures, colorful regions, exacting city’s with you. Imagine does an appeal on high qualified staff that knows ‘his’ country and made for you a selection of instructive roundtrips which you can find in this brochure. For Kabe&Ko is travelling enjoying, discovering and making your dreams come true. Our knowledge is the source of making your dreams come true.
There are few better ways to understand a new place than by tasting –and cooking– its food
Travel information Hotels In general: what kind of hotels, what are our demands in quality and prices? The stay is mostly a few nights The mentioned hotels can be changed with an alternative
Airline company Regular flights: shedules, allocations, delays, cancellations, overbooking or technical defects are the responsibility of the airline company.
Guides Guides have a certificate and spreak English.
Optional excursions We offer quite a full program, additional trips are limited.
Itinerary Programs are followed accurately. The order depends on circumstances.
Purchasings The accent of our travels will be culture and gastronomy. The commercial visits are secondary to our program. Shopping is without obligations and we are not responsible for expenses.
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Transportation Airconditioning in every vehicle, but different as in Europe. Sometimes the roads can be in bad conditions, the average speed is lower than in Belgium.
Local agencies We will work with local agents.
Cooks
Formalities
International pass
Visum
Currency
Time difference
Malaysia
6 months after return
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Ringgit:€1=4.15MYR
W:+7hr,S:+6hr
Laos
6 months after return
By arrival
Kip:1€=10.170 LAK
W:+7hr,S:+6hr
Vietnam
6 months after return
obligated
Dong: 1€=27.760VND
W:+6hr,S:+5hr
Destinations Laos Malaysia Vietnam
Laos Combine your love for food with your passion for travel on this unique culinary tour. Learn the secrets of Laos’ world famous cuisine, as you explore the landscape, meet the people and delve into the history of the country – finding inspiration in the favourite local dishes.
Hotels
Malaysia
Good to know AIRLINE COMPANY We will work for this destination with the following airline company.
FORMALITIES FOR BELGIAN CITIZENS Your passport has to be valid at least 6 months after return. You get the visa at the airport? The visa costs has to be paid at the airport. 45 USD or €45 for single entry. 65 USD or €65 a person for a double entry. CURRENCY The currency in Vietnam is the Dong (VND 10.000= 0.3603). The import and export of the coins is forbidden. You can exchange your euro’s and dollars in the site. Credit cards are accepted in most hotels and in the most tourist shops. LOCAL TIME When it is 12 a.m. in Belgium it is in Vietnam 6 p.m. in the winter and 5 p.m. in the summer. CLIMATE Because of it’s extensiveness knows Vietnam different climates from north to south. The most pleasent time to travel is from mid november till the end of April, with a change of a shower. From the end of April till mid November is rainseason.
Vietnam
Culture and tasting A 10 days culinary tour The highlights of the trip: 
Day 1 Sunday: From Brussels with the train to Paris, than from Paris to Hanoi. (L,D) You will take the train in Brussels-South to Paris. In Paris you will take the plane to Hanoi with Vietnam Airlines. Day 2 Monday : Arrival and transfer to the Sofitel Metropole. (B,L,D) When you arrive at the airport of Hanoi, you will be greeted and have a transfer to the Sofitel Metropole hotel. The rest of the day you can rest or explore Hanoi. You will have dinner in the hotel. Day 3 Tuesday : Sightseeing tours and restaurant trips (B,L,D) Today's full day tour of Hanoi includes visits to the One Pillar Pagoda, built in the 11th century constructed of wood on a single stone pillar; Hoan Kiem Lake a beautiful lake located in the heart of Hanoi; Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the final resting place of Ho Chi Minh, a glass sarcophagus set deep in the bowels of a monumental edifice that has become a site of pilgrimage The Opera House, Temple of literature, St Joseph Cathedral and Old Quarters, a colorful marketplace where one can buy anything from herbal medicines to silk garments to gold jewelry.
Lunch at Le Tonkin restaurant. Le Tonkin has been renowned for fine Vietnamese dining since opening in 2000. Set in a 100-year old beautifully restored French villa, Le Tonkin is a breathing cultural heritage. Home for a French family for years, the villa is adorned with century-old artifacts, such as oil lamps, a Buddhist altar with fresh red roses. Le Tonkin( named after the northern part of Vietnam) is a great introduction to Vietnamese cuisine. The menu is rich and is ideal for those who wish to understand Vietnamese culture through tastes. All dishes are exquisitely presented and accompanied by traditional music performances. Dinner at the Emperor Restaurant. Settled in a colonial villa, the restaurant is among the most beautiful ones in Hanoi with a two-story pagoda-style outdoor pavilion. The ground floor is more like a drinking place filled with comfortable sofas and bartenders moving around serving cocktails. The second floor is an open kitchen area delighted by sparkling candle-lit one every wood-carved table. Renowned as being a food lovers delight this elegant eatery offers clay pot dishes, fresh seafood delights including soft shell crab and a host of Hue specialties from a refined Vietnamese menu. Besides Hue’s Royal cuisine like rice pancake stuffed with toothsome morsels of pork; savory eggplant with garlic served in a clay pot and tangle of rice vermicelli with crabmeat, peppers, seaweed, and egg, the restaurant’s menu also contain a wide
array of Vietnamese food such as: Fresh Spring Rolls, Papaya Salad for appetizers and steamed, flaky White Fish in a banana leaf or oniony Soft-shelled Crab and Tender Grilled Squid.
Hotel Hoi An Victoria Resort
Hotel Hoi An Victoria Resort