Lao Bump Kins

I’ve no idea why we call these greens mustard greens. In Laotian they are called pak gaht. They grow pretty well in the cooler part of the y...

I read a couple of online sources of information about Laos and lately it seems like I should leave my computer off. Every time I log on a n...

Recently I read on a blog called Imaging Our Mekong that Laos is no longer “opium free”. Of course it never was anyway. The piece goes on t...

But first a photo, have to have something to catch the eye right? I thought this pepper was a habanero turns out the shape is slightly wron...

What’s a Wat doing on a blog entry about rotten eggs? I just liked the way it looked, and I haven’t used this photo before. Photos of rotten...

Crushing the freshly toasted peanuts in the koke Yam salat has to be one of the few true vegetarian dishes in Laos, that is if you don’t thr...

A couple weeks ago my news filter picked up this story about tigers because it was thought the tigers came from Laos. Subsequent stories ide...