I was having a craving for laap moo or pork minced salad awhile back so I tried to make it on my own. I called Aunt Kian and Aunt Phone in Vientiane and asked how they make their laap moo and then went with it. It was quite delicious and would have been better with [...]

Thom Khem with pork and bamboo shoots.

A short clip of beautiful Lao girls, getting ready for a fashion show at Don Chan Palace in Vientiane Laos in December of 2006, for the Lao Handicraft Festival 5th Anniversary.

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balloon, originally uploaded by c_p_lew. The latest business along the Mekong - you can go up in the balloon if you pay 20 USD for 5 minutes. Although a lot of people were staring, no one was taking advantage of this deal!

so this is the saddest thing i’ve seen up on the web since i saw that clip of the guy getting tazed on youtube. if you click on vientiane times webpage, you find the following message:”We’re no longer updating VientianeTimes.comWebmaster of VientianeT…

If he looks familiar, that’s because I wrote about Danny at Laovoices.com on a post called Sexy Young Asian Model, and still holds true and now Danny Bunyavong is on the cover of VOLUME, a Thai English magazine with sexy Thai model, โอเด็ต (Odit) เฮนเรียต แจ๊คโคมิน. Source.
Below are photos of Danny, which was taken [...]

T.R. wrote a moving entry about the situation in Burma - Putting a Human Face on the Politics of Poverty which included a reference to an entry I wrote about the high child mortality rate in the country. Unicef, in its annual report State of the World’s Children, estimated that the under five mortality rate is 104/ 1,000 live births. In the post written on the Tricycle blog, there was a link to

Episode 33 of Song Kram Nang Fah broadcast on March 05, 2008. There is one more episode left of this controversial Thai soap opera.
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Thirteen Famous (and not so famous) Women

8 March is International Women’s Day. It’s a holiday here in Laos, where the men are supposed to cook and clean and take care of the women for the day. Today many of the hospitals and school have programs about the rights of women, with skits and music followed by lunch.

In honor of the day for remembering famous women, I wrote up this list of known

Chicken soup with mixed vegetables.