Laab, a salad of ground meat and herbs seasoned with fish sauce and lime juice, is sometimes said to be the national dish of Laos, the landlocked Southeast Asian country that borders China, Myanmar, ...
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — It was 1974, and American bombs had only recently stopped falling here. In less than a year, Pathet Lao rebels would take over the entire country, establishing a communist ...
The word "sap-sap" literally translated from Laotian means "delicious delicious." SapSap owner Alex Hanesakda strives not only for good taste, but for community outreach as well. Hanesakda learned the ...
When chef James Syhabout set out to write his new cookbook, Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots, he sampled a recipe that is not on most American dinner tables: ...
Missy Frederick is the Editorial Director for Eater’s dining team. She has covered the D.C. restaurant industry since 2007, offers expertise in business reporting and regional American dishes, and ...
Finding Lao cuisine — the true, authentic version of it — is difficult. That's what makes AJ Asian Kitchen in El Monte so special. There aren't any restaurants in L.A. County dedicated solely to food ...
At times spicy and bitter, salty and pungent, herbaceous and sour — Lao food is intensely delicious. Thum mak hoong, or papaya salad, is a fundamental dish in Lao cuisine, with as many variations as ...
A lvis Huynh pretty much always knew he was queer, the same way he pretty much always knew we wanted to be a chef. The 31-year-old has taken winding and introspective journeys in both his identity and ...
You need to go to the suburbs to find the Bay Area’s current champion for Lao food, one of the region’s most underrated cuisines. Opened in a Concord strip mall in 2022, Spicy Joi makes some of the ...
Dallas-Fort Worth has the biggest Laotian food scene in North America. More than a dozen eateries, ranging from traditional mom-and-pop markets to brewery-hopping food trucks, are introducing Texans ...
When he started writing the cookbook, chef James Syhabout went to his ancestral homeland, Laos, to sample the food. Now, he hopes to introduce... With 'Hawker Fare,' Chef James Syhabout Shares Laotian ...