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In the old day before there was a rice mill, Lao people processed their rice using an ancient invention called Kok Mong. This is similar to the household kok and sark or mortar and pestle, simple in design but very effective in grinding rice or as a mixing bowl for making sen khao phoon or [...]

Tips on how to make sticky rice by Joe. He sure knows how to make good sticky rice.

What goes great with sticky rice, how about some mean jeow?

There is nothing more inviting than the delicious taste of warm ping kai and bung khao larm during festival times. When I think of ping kai and bung khao larm I think of Boun That Luang.

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 [...]

This is a bad year for many farmers in Laos. Due to torrential rain in Laos in late September and early October, thousands of hectares of rice fields in Champassack Province were flooded. My cousin Mo told me how the farmers in Pakse were harvesting the rice, trying to save what they can from the [...]