FLAVOURS OF MY FAMILY HISTORY

New restaurant offers an authentic taste of Laos

- By DANNY GUTMANN

THE owners of Liverpool's popular Tiger Rock restaurant have revealed the emotional background behind the concept of their latest venture.

Opening next month, Bistro Lao, in Rodney Street, is the brainchild of Vikki and Kean Teh, who opened their first restaurant in the city back in 1994.

Vikki spent her earliest years growing up in the country of Laos, which lies between Thailand and Vietnam, with her mum Joon Vong-sanga, dad and brothers. However their lives were turned upside down when the outbreak of the Vietnam war forced the family to flee.

Vikki told the ECHO: “Following the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, we were forced to leave our home in Laos, seek refuge in Thailand, and eventually arrived in England in 1979 through Save the Children.