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Dyen Sabai Restaurant
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About
Dyen Sabai offers Lao traditional food. We are located on the bank of the Nam Khan river. We have many terraces and bamboos huts to sit. We offer happy hour from noon to 7 pm, 2 cocktails for the price of one, on selected cocktails. You can reach us with a bamboo bridge (in dry season) We also do free boat when the bamboo bridge is not there.
Features
CUISINES
Barbecue, Asian, Fusion, Healthy
Meal types
Lunch, Dinner, Drinks
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
FEATURES
Accepts Credit Cards
Digital Payments
Family style
Free off-street parking
Free Wifi
Full Bar
Gift Cards Available
Mastercard
Non-smoking restaurants
Outdoor Seating
Parking Available
Reservations
Seating
Serves Alcohol
Street Parking
Table Service
Takeout
Visa
Wine and Beer
Location
Free off-street parking, Parking Available, Street Parking
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Hours
Open until 11:00 PM
Sunday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Monday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Tuesday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Thursday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
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4.4
(1,701)
Excellent
969
Good
545
Average
130
Poor
42
Terrible
15
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IanPFarrar
34 contributions
Dec 2024 • couples
The first thing to note is that it’s hard to get to, so you’d think the food quality must be high to make it worth the journey. More on that later.
The bamboo bridge doesn’t exist any more so you have to take a boat, but it is quite a distance from the original bridge at both ends. If you ask them to tell you where to find a boat they refuse to send a map. So instead I sent one with an X marked and they said yes, but a bit to the right. It turned out to be nowhere close. It’s much closer to where Google maps shows Oppa cafe.
When you get there you might have heard about their 2-for-1 on cocktails before 7pm. However, you have to have both at the same time. No option to have one and then another when you’re finished, so the second one is warm when you get to it. That’s certainly not a happy hour in my mind. It’s just a single drink spread over 2 glasses.
The menu is very short so difficult to please everyone. The prices are also higher than most places in town (100,000K for most dishes) though several included rice, which is often an extra in town.
Most people opted for the bbq/hotpot fusion, which looked really good (prices starting at 205,000K, which they say serves 2 for most people) but we stuck to the normal menu.
The Mekong river weed was a good appetiser. The spicy buffalo skin in chilli sauce that it came with was a great accompaniment.
We followed with pork in ginger and eggplant with pork (not because we’re mad keen on pork, more that they don’t offer much that isn’t pork or buffalo and the latter is very chewy). Nevertheless, both were tasty, albeit that the pork with ginger lacked a bit of seasoning and neither had any spice whatsoever. However, the staff were accommodating and the latter was resolved quickly with a small bowl full of chopped chillis.
Overall, after the disappointment of the happy hour drinks and unwillingness of the staff to share a map over WhatsApp we were pleasantly surprised by the food, which made up for the initial issues. The staff all seem to have started yesterday, as they were all pretty green, but again they tried to be helpful and mostly succeeded.
It isn’t somewhere I would go back to on this trip, given the very limited menu, but it was a nice meal with a great view of the Nam Khan river.
Written 28 December 2024
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reiya1999
2582 contributions
Dec 2023 • friends
You need to take a ferry to the restaurant. The ferry costs 10,000 yen for the outward trip, but you can get a cashback when you pay at the restaurant. There is no charge for the return trip. Because it is outdoors and in a bamboo grove, I was worried about the mosquitoes, but they lit a mosquito coil for me, so it was fine. There are several dishes, such as sindat and Lao set menus. We ordered sindat because we were there. We chose buffalo meat. The food tasted good, and we ordered rice separately, so we were full. It may be arranged for foreigners. The price is relatively high. The staff can speak English. Smoking is allowed at the seats. In addition, I contacted "+856-20-55-104-817 / +856-71-410-185" to change the reservation time, but both were told that it was a "wrong number". Email is available. Therefore, it is better to make a reservation by email.
Written 10 December 2023
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MenthonSB
Annecy39 contributions
Nov 2024 • couples
Beautiful views out to the Old Town over the river, we had a great meal served by attentive & friendly young team. Although BBQ is their speciality, we opted for seaweed and eggplant starters and grilled whole fish & buffalo in ginger as mains.
Tasty, served with real attention. Would highly recommend.
Written 23 November 2024
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Trang N
11 contributions
Feb 2024 • family
Worst service in town. Came as a family group of 5 adult and 1 child (4 years old). Ordered 3 beers, 1 mojito, 1 mango smoothies and 1 apple juice, 2 platters number 2, 1 pork lab, 1 fish stew in banana leaves with child menu of kfc chicken (incl mango sticky rice). Took 40 minutes for the drink to came out. Took another 15 mins for food to come out slowly plate by plate. They didn't even give us cutlery and plates. 2 hours after and we still sitting around waiting. It's ridiculous.
Written 11 February 2024
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Nathalie Pouliot
Dear Trang,
We are so sorry that you had a bad expérience at our restaurant. Out staff do try their Best to serve and cook rapidly. In February we had a couplé of new waiters, that are normally supervise by order one. But some nights in February were so busy, that it is possible that the new waiter were not supervised correctly. We are very sorry about this. Please be assured that since than, they have improved and are still improving every day to serve our customers better. Hope you give us another chance. Best regards
Written 26 February 2024
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Friedmman
Hong Kong1 contribution
Feb 2024 • couples
I don't know why the rating is so high. Is it just because of the novelty of having to take a boat to eat? It's annoying to have bamboo leaves floating on your plate while eating, and there are flies flying around all the time. We ordered the traditional Lao sausage set and steamed fish set. The sausage set didn't come with roasted eggplant sauce, which was very unauthentic; the sticky rice was only brought after I reminded them. The overall experience was not very good.
Written 14 February 2024
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Enrica S
16 contributions
Dec 2023 • solo
This hotel is on the other side of the river and there is a small boat to cross the river. The boatmen charges 10.000 kip but gives you a ticet and the restaurant gives you this money back once you clear the bill. Since I went alone I did not try their famous hot pot (which is for at least 2 people) but had a Mok Pa instead (steamed fish cooked in banana leaf with local basil and other herbs). It was very yummy. The location is great and the staff is friendly and efficient
Written 28 December 2023
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Ian G
Nottingham133 contributions
Mar 2024 • solo
This is an excellent and atmospheric restaurant on the far side of the NamKham River. Access is temporarily more difficult as the flood works have removed the seasonal bamboo bridge and the boat ferry service. Even so it's worth the tuk tuk ride or 25 mins walk from downtown Luang Prabang. Lovely seating area above the River and impressive Lao menu. The starter platter was especially good. The two4one offer on cocktails before 7-00 is worth getting there early for. Highly recommended.
Written 4 March 2024
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sebastopolo
Berlin71 contributions
Feb 2023 • couples
The Lao BBQ is simple, but rally special as you grill your meat on the top of a metal plate where at the edge your cook vegetables. All at the same time, all on a basket with glowing coal. So, the flavor of the crispy meat I floating into the soup with vegetable. A blast of tastes.
The restaurant’s location and atmosphere are great - several terraces with wooden roof directly at the river next to the small bamboo bridge. Here you may choose to sit on tables or lie on the floor. Service is friendly and quick.
Written 7 March 2023
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DS
Hunfeld614 contributions
Jan 2025 • couples
The Loatian form of raclette. In the square table standing in the middle coal is ignited, above it comes a metal cover, which is filled with broth at the edge and represents the grill in the middle. In the slow-cooking broth, the guest can pickle noodles and vegetables at will, while in the middle the meat, thin delicate slices, is fried. As a result, you have a delicious meal and a great experience.
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Written 19 January 2025
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Massimiliano B
Albano Laziale734 contributions
Sept 2024 • couples
A romantic and well-kept place. Soft lighting and beautiful view of Mount Phousi. You can choose whether to eat lying down or sitting. The Laotian BBQ formula is really tasty and allows you to enjoy with a stove with embers placed in the center of the table, a meat cooked on a perforated brazier... highly recommended
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Written 2 December 2024
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Cranleigh479 contributions
Nov 2024 • couples
This restaurant is just over the river. There are several options to get there. If the boat is running jump on it, if not you can walk or take a short and low cost taxi across to it it really is worth the effort. It has a lovely ambience and the best tables are almost outside but with some shelter. A speciality is the hot coal BBQ which you do at your own table. Very different and delicious. The cost is great value and the food quality excellent. They offer nice cocktails and the house red wine by the glass was very drinkable. Overall we had a lovely evening and thanks to all the staff.
I would like to make a special mention to Anon our 17 year old waiter who took the time to speak to us in very good English. We wish him well in his ambitions.
Written 16 November 2024
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Johanne
Laval118 contributions
Feb 2024 • friends
Aside from the rather unusual journey to the restaurant (on a longboat and after going down and up rudimentary wooden stairs), the experience in this split-level restaurant is very pleasant. We chose the chicken fondue with vegetables, garnished with garlic and chili peppers. The container is placed on the table under a fire in a cauldron and the broth is added afterwards. Very very good and pleasant experience.
Written 4 February 2024
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Elina A
1 contribution
Jan 2023 • friends
We had to wait over 1 hour for our food. They got our order wrong and did not want to change it. They also did not tell us that we had to order rice separately so we had to order and wait for it after we already had waited so long for our food. The food in it self was avarage tasting and overpriced. The setting was however really beautiful and the drinks were tasty with a good 2 for 1 offer.
Written 9 January 2023
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Annette H
Melbourne8 contributions
Jan 2023 • family
A romantic location, tiered eating areas with dark painted solid hardwoods to frame the most magnificent view. We ate delicious food and stared in awe. A walk across the lamp lit bamboo bridge tops it off.
Written 10 January 2023
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Aini J
36 contributions
Nov 2023 • couples
The restaurant is opposite the opposite side of Nam Ou, and there's a short boat trip from LP peninsula. We had Sindad, Lao BBQ. It was delicious and had a lot of veggies, which were boiled in hot stock. The atmosphere was coxy and the staff really friendly. Absolutely worth to visit!
Written 16 November 2023
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