Culinary Delights of Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 17 October 2008 | 6 Comments
Categories: Eating, Laos, Recipes, Thailand, Travel with children

I just wanted to share two of the many foods that I enjoy in Laos.

In Laos there is a lot of buzz about a little dish called papaya salad.
When I first heard about “papaya salad”, I pictured a lovely syrupy sweet fruit salad, perhaps artfully carved complete with butterflied pineapple.
In reality, papaya salad, or (Tam [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Street Food in Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 15 October 2008 | 27 Comments
Categories: Eating, Laos, Traveling baby

This week in Vientiane is the annual Boat Racing Festival. We went to the river front today and stayed only long enough to purchase some tasty snacks.
It was just too hot with a CRUSH of people to hang around!

One of the toddler-friendly snacks we picked up is one of my personal favorites, grilled, seasoned sticky [...]

That Dam Stupa (Vientiane, Laos)

Yazan: CanCan | 08 October 2008 | 17 Comments
Categories: Laos, Teaching kids different cultures, Travel with children, Traveling baby

That Dam Stupa. It is pretty fun to type, but it isn’t pronounced how you think. It is a transliteration of the Lao name, and Lao language has it’s own alphabet. “That” is pronounced like “tot”, “Dam” should read like “dahm”, and “stupa”, well, yeah, that’s “stoo-pah”.

That Dam Stupa (you know you want to snicker [...]

Snapshots of Luang Prabang

Yazan: CanCan | 12 September 2008 | 10 Comments
Categories: Laos, Luang Prabang, Pictures, Riding in cars with kids, Winner's List

On Monday I’m going to start five days of fun and games-related giveaways! Grab this button and put it on your blog, then leave a comment on this post telling me you did. This will be your special extra entry into EVERY giveaway. I wanted to do it this way so that people who actually [...]

Wordless Wednesday: My Favorite Unphotogenic Food

Yazan: CanCan | 10 September 2008 | 11 Comments
Categories: Eating, Laos, Pictures

I have tried before to photograph one of my favorite foods in Laos: fresh vegetarian springrolls.

I got these from an outdoor market near the bus station in Vientiane. I had them made special, boh sie seehn (no meat).

I like to get them from this market because they have homemade peanut butter inside. Yum! The dipping [...]

Singapore

Yazan: CanCan | 09 September 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Singapore was a lot of fun. I kind of compared the entire country to a theme park in my mind. Everything was so clean and organized…street food is safe to eat, the drug penalty is VERY severe so that seems to be a non-issue in society there. We stayed in the Malay part of town [...]

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