Lao Bump Kins

Moke is one of those foods that just lends itself to wild meat. It’s a steamed dish, and the steaming releases all the flavors, especially i...

I’m not much the sentimental type but when it came time to thin the herd I had little practical experience, and even less enthusiasm. My wif...

Above one very fresh elk heart and liver taking up most of the sink One of the good parts about cutting up one’s own meat is that you get to...

Som Guang With fresh deer in the freezer all kinds of foods are starting to appear. To the right are most of the ingredients of som guang or...

That unidentifiable food next to the kao jao is dinner a couple nights ago. Worried over a possible frost we picked most of the stuff that...

The photo above I "borrowed" from a review on a shutterbug web site called  Bangkok Images . More than likely it's a photo by ...

The video begins with a guy named Sangtong waving his net back and forth over a wheat field catching grasshoppers (dakadaeng) in a rice fiel...

The cook cooking Yesterday was an out of control Lao food cook off around here. We've been out of sticky rice for 2 weeks. We usually ha...

if you haven't had foe at the Lankham Hotel, but I'll start at the beginning. Up on the Bolaven Plateau I met a guy driving one of t...

First learn to think in kip. A dollar is 8,400 kip, but for simplicity think of $1 as 10,000 kip, twenty cents as 2,000 etcetera. Eventually...

This fellow and his friends started to appear at the beginning of the hot season. His name is Maeng Sahn , elephant insect. Quite the name...

Recently Bryan, the guy who gives me meat, gave me some seal-a-mealed antelope, that somebody gave him. I don’t know the name of the guy who...