ABOUT US

We grew up in Europe. But at home, it always smelled like something else.

Our grandparents, aunts, and parents brought an entire world with them when they came — recipes, rituals, ways of being together at the table. We grew up between two worlds: the world outside, and the world that lived in family kitchens, in the dishes they cooked, in the stories told over meals.

For a while, things grew quieter. A career pulls you forward. Life moves fast. The distance between you and those kitchens grows slowly, almost unnoticed — until one day you realise something precious is in danger of being lost.

So we came back to rebuild it.

But it was never just about us. We looked around and saw that our closest friends carried the same story — the same half-remembered recipes, the same feeling that something was slipping away. Then we looked at our children, growing up just as we had, and knew: if we don't pass this on with intention, it disappears with our generation.

Mongmo is our answer to that. A place to keep it alive, to teach it, and to share it — with the people closest to us, and with anyone who wants to be part of it.

Southida & Zoe