Lao Voices

16, June
Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
Lao green papaya salad with brown rice vermicelli
Ben & Jerry chocolate fudge ice cream

Dinner:
Grilled chicken and mango salad
Rooibos honey tea
Strawberry vlaai

I can’t say that this didn’t happen to the Hmong people, but the producer(s) of the films are a bit biased by titled it as Genocide of Hmong in Laos, when what we are looking at is the result of the war, anywhere, not just in Laos. I think it’s a bit self-centered to think [...]

When you can get your hands on green mango, try making a salad, Lao style.

Vang Pao finally showed his true intentions. As it becomes more and more obvious he was scheming a Hmong coordinated violent takeover of Laos. He counted in a big way on his historical credits with the US, build up during the Indochina war.
Fortunately, the US government discovered his plans, did not like it and [...]

Maybe Micheal Moore should do a documentary about the DSL and cell phone companies in America. That would be something to watch. A couple of years ago, DSL would cost as much as $50 a month. While my friends in Canada were getting it for $15 per month. And Comcast broadband [...]

Who ever came up with the idea of taking a cucumber and turned it into a mouth watering dish was a genius.

Lao food is never boring.

My mind is a bit clogged up today, as I was sitting here thinking about a good topic to write, then I received a phone call from my GI Joe sister, she’d normally call me, to tell me about her son, or about her business, which me on the other end would only listen and [...]

Video description: Short interview with Hmong General Vang Pao from last December. General Vang Pao and nine others were recently arrested on charges of plotting to buy weapons to overthrow the government in their old homeland of Laos.

There is a disease growing in the Lao community in the US and it is very contagious. I want to know the answers to this disease of forgetting your loved ones. It bothers me to know there are people out there who are living the “American Dream” and forgot about their parents back home.
Even my [...]