If you haven’t already read this issue of Saveur Magazine, you should pick one up right away. In this issue there is a feature on the Hmong farming community in Fresno, California. It’s a great 14 page editorial with photos of the vegetables that is grown on one Hmong’s family farm. Although, if you don’t subscribe to this magazine or if you were to whiz by it in a bookshop you would not know
Rajan Rishyakaran feels that if there is ever going to be a ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region wide official human rights organization, it is going to have to work very hard.
Kin khao is the title of this blog because in the Lao language it means “eat rice”, but to the Lao people it means eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner and just eat food in general. The Lao people love to use that phrase, my husband can vouch for that. It’s the first phrase he learned when we were dating because that’s all he would hear every time he was over at my house.
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a couple of weekends back, La Reagan, a good friend of mine came to town (well, actually to graham wa) for the opening of her friend’s thai restaurant. (see picture below). so i went down to the foot of mt. rainier to eat food. and that’s all i did. …
It seems like the koke and the saat, (in English mortar and pestle), are in use preparing every meal. If nothing else, they are used to crush and pulverize the spices that go in every food. The order in which ingredients are added to the koke is determ…
http://www.tulareadvanceregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070714/NEWS01/707140342/1002 pulled this from vientiane times. apparently visalia is still seeing some gang problems. when i was there in 93, the o.t. were pretty active, but i’d assumed…
I assume this must be some kind of DC-3 flying over a hill tribe village. I grabbed the photo off one of those web sites. Check out the houses. Have you ever seen houses in a hill tribe village lined up in rows?Well they let the general out on bail, th…
Khao Niaw before dawn at the restaurant shacks bus station OudomxaiI’m surprised I didn’t write something about khao niaw before this. Rice is the basis for food itself in Laos, so much so that the expression to eat is gin khao which might loosely …
Sandra’s performance of “Vanh Thee Jao Ma Ha” or “The Day You Came to See Me” at Granvia Hotel, Kyoto, Japan on April 26, 2006.
Here is a video clip of Sandra’s concert in Vientiane, when she was only 16 years old. The song is called “Allo.
