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.

Opened in a Concord strip mall in 2022, Spicy Joi makes some of the best Lao sausages in the game, vividly potent papaya salad and hearty, rarefied noodle soups. But much of its star power has to ...