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This concludes my NYC trip, I posted this at my blog for one of my readers that is interested in moving to the Big Apple and hope this will help any of you as well.
NYC was the first State that we lived, we were sponsored by a Chinese Christian Church, and here I am still [...]

Lumvong Pa by Alexandra Bounxouei

On Sunday, we had Phapa Presentation or Pakaprak Day at our local Wat (temple) that I attended. It is the day of presentation the forest robe to the monks, and giving donation to support the temple. I heard of the term before, but was confused with Thot Kathin Ceremony, which is [...]

Chow Ban (The villagers) by Jae Danupol Kaewkarn

When I visited my youngest sister last Saturday, I was surprised of the changes in her area. She lives in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York, and there is a large population of Asian, such as Korean, Chinese, and some Vietnamese. Most of the houses are somewhat [...]

I think Chinatown is not what it used to be, since 911 many restaurants and small businesses folded, if you never lived in the area, you would not know the difference because it appears that it’s still bustling, and crowded as ever.

We walked so much that I thought my legs would fall off, and [...]

So what do we do after we harvested the rice? I came across an interesting post from Mozemoua’s blog, very traditional way of processing rice, she explains the planting process in great detail, and the hand made equipments that separate the rice from the pods look just like back home in Laos.
Rice paddies in GA; [...]

This post is for Laovoices and Nye Noona readers, I think harvest time is what we’re waiting to see.
Rice has been a huge part of my upbringing, even though we don’t eat a lot of sticky rice, mainly because my dad is part Chinese, but we do eat white rice as long as I could [...]

The last time I visited NYC was in September of 2006, first time I had gone back since 911, and one of the places that I visited was the old World Trade Center site, but due to our short visit, we saw ground zero at night.
So ground zero was first on my list.I really didn’t [...]

It’s a bit too soon for me to take photos of the rice paddy, I just posted it on Wednesday of last week, and it’s now only Monday, but things progress very fast because of the hot summer sun. Rice paddy is not the reason why I went there today, I wanted to take photos [...]

I went to a Boun event last Sunday, but didn’t have a chance to post this until today. It is a Boun event for a respectable member of our Lao community’s step dad whom passed away awhile back, and it falls on the same day as an important Buddhist religious day called Asalha Puja Day, [...]

France-Prabang 2008, videos by Champa lao

It has only been a week since my last post of US Rice Paddy in Mid July and very surprised to see the rice today. I was fortunate to see the owner outside working in his yard, and he said that the rice came out last week (I swear that I didn’t see them, it [...]

I visited my neighbor’s rice paddy this morning, still no rice yet, but the rice plants are a lot taller.

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