Bad year for the farmers in Laos
Imagine you managed to save half of your crop from the flood and just when you think the worse is over, then you are hit with unexpected rainfall at a time that is supposed to be a dry season, with no rain. The storm in Vietnam the last few weeks brought more rain, showering the drying sticky rice on acres and acres of farmland in Pakse district and nearby region.
[...] When I was going through a new set of food pictures from Laos and found a plate full of what I thought was deep fried grasshoppers I gave my cousin in Pakse and call to confirm my suspicion. Mo told me they are indeed grasshoppers and told me how he bought them from Pakse market, rather than catching them himself in the nearby rice field. [...]