I’m beginning to think that perhaps 2009 has been the best year of my life, so far. Sure, I had some setbacks and disappointments (Liberia, being broke, health issues), but overall, it’s been amazing. I just found out that I’ve won the Victoria University PhD Scholarship to study under my mentors Drs. Goman & Dorner! [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
2009 – Best year ever?
Posted in eatin', home, livin', tagged christmas, food, montreal, new year, scholarship on Sunday, 27 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How to make Sticky Rice/Glutinous Rice/Khao Niao
Posted in eatin', tagged cooking, food, glutinous rice, khao neaow, khao niao, lao food, lao recipe, laotian food, laotian recipe, sticky rice, sweet rice on Friday, 3 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More from Coco’s Lao Kitchen!
Sticky Rice is an essential component of the Lao diet. It’s actually a different variety or rice and must be cooked in a different way than regular rice. Usually in a Lao home there will be a large basket full of sticky rice at any moment. The rice will be put [...]
librarians being silly
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged central library, food, laos on Friday, 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We went to eat Pho today for lunch, and then on the way back the ladies wanted to stop and buy some fruit. When we got back to the office they took the lychees and bananas they had bought and arranged them as so:
Then they asked me “Do you know what it is?”
“I think so…”
“Have [...]
sokdee boun bang fie!
Posted in culture, tagged food, insects, lao khao, lao rocket festival, laos, rainy season, rice whiskey, rockets, sunset, vientiane on Monday, 25 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Rocket Festival!
So, this is my basic understanding of the Lao Rocket Festival.
At the end of the dry season (May), Lao people build rockets from PVC pipe and bamboo and laundry detegrent and god-knows-what-else to shoots into the sky in order to, essentially, piss off the skies and make them send down rain.
Here are some [...]
cooking in laos – “fish laap or larb” or traditional “lao salad” recipe with PICTURES!!
Posted in eatin', livin', work, tagged bowling, fermented fish paste, fish laap, food, lao cooking, lao salad, laos, larb, larp, padec, sticky rice on Monday, 25 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the kitchen lately!
Here’s some Lao Recipes:
Coco’s Lao Kitchen
Fish Laap
1 lb finely chopped pieces of boiled fish (I like tilapia) – let it cool before you try to make laap.
1 stalk of lemon grass, finely sliced
1 bunch of green onions, finely sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
Combine in a large [...]
more cooking lessons
Posted in eatin', tagged cooking, fish, food, laos, nem pa on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mrs. Sypha taught me how to make Nem Pa.
It’s basically this really delicious mixture of fish and herbs and rice that you make into spring rolls.
Here are the pictures – full recipe deptails will follow.
vientiane times
Posted in culture, eatin', livin', tagged beerlao, central library, ceremony, food, monks on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Things have been pretty calm an quiet here in Vientiane.
Last weekend I went to a party at Mr. Seethong’s house, one of the people I work with at the Central Library.
I arrived around 11:30 am, and Mr. Seethong had explained to me that he had invited some monkes over to give them alms and then [...]
lao music awards
Posted in culture, eatin', livin', tagged food, fried bugs, frogs, lao music awards on Thursday, 31 July, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I went to the first ever Lao Music Awards this past weekend.
It was a pretty interesting experience. I paid 24,000 Kip (about $3) for a seat in the very back of the upper balcony at the National Culture Hall. Which meant I saw hardly anything. But I was able to discern a lot of choreographed [...]
cooking school drop-outs
Posted in eatin', livin', tagged coconut milk, cooking school, food, laap, papaya salad on Monday, 28 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My pal Meg that I met at the 4th of July party was back in town for a few days and we had lots of fun wandering around town trying strange food. One of my favorite is the “party-in-a-bowl”, shown above. It’s basically coconut milk, mixed with sugar syrup, and then they can put in [...]
i visit the market.
Posted in eatin', home, livin', tagged food, market, pho, weekend on Saturday, 12 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As much as I enjoy the food in the restaurants around town, I also love to cook. So I finally got a stove and some cookware yesterday, and went out searching for raw materials today.
My first stop was the Laos Organic Market.
The Laos Organic makret is some project that is funded by germany or something [...]
