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.

The food of Thailand is

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…