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Two crafts, food and travel, and the people who carry them from Vietnam to Indonesia.
It began with people, not with a plan. A tour guide with a German degree who learned to draw buildings because a client trusted him to. A literature graduate from Huế who cooked in a forty square metre bistro and washed the dishes herself. Divers who had spent a decade on other people’s boats and wanted one of their own.
Today that means more than ten Mệ Vui kitchens across Bali and Vietnam, cooking the food of Huế, Hà Nội, Sài Gòn and Hội An with produce grown in Balinese soil. A dive centre in Labuan Bajo with its own boat, its own gear and its own galley, and never more than four divers to a guide. A travel company in Canggu that takes Vietnamese travellers through Bali with local crews. A drafting studio in Saigon and Bali that draws to German standards for architects in Europe. A wine and spirits shop in Saigon.
They share one way of working. Know your craft. Be exact. Look after the place that hosts you. Along the way the group has created more than 300 jobs in the communities where it works.
The next chapter is Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Bali and Komodo. It depends on one thing: finding the people who will lead it.