And while the food can be spicy, it’s more important to balance ... and green rice paddies can seem to spread to the horizon. Lao-lao, a rice whiskey, requires sticky rice to be steamed and ...

Spicy Thai Lao is in a blink-and-you-miss-it ... In fact, it’s probably more appropriate to say Saengsom isn’t cooking Lao food or Isan food as much as she’s cooking her own food, food ...

curry will crop up a lot more in Lao cuisine than Vietnamese, with Vietnamese food being somewhat less spicy; Laos also tends to use sticky rice rather than the Jasmine rice of Vietnamese food.