Dinner at my aunt’s house in Pakse with Yum Salad or Lao Salad using ground pork as the meat ingredient. Yum Salad is delicious and is popular for gathering since you can make it in big batch and serve as many people as possible.

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A continuation of my green papaya salad marathon for the year. I’ve been told by my relatives how I shouldn’t eat too much green papaya salad because it is not good for me. I don’t know if it’s an urban legend but my aunts told me how eating too much green papaya salad will make [...]

Only now did it occur to the cat to try & take a 360 degree view from the bridge:

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The cat is lousy at such things & knows peaNUTS, cocoNUTS & chestNUTS about all that lighting stuff. It photographs fluorescent mouse & human cells for work, not scenery & people. & it travels with only a simple little but tougher-than-nails Olympus mju300 & no tripod.

Nong Khiaw Riverside