Ia was not alone in fleeing Laos. Over time, well over 100,000 Hmong would resettle in the United States. In 1981, one of them managed to have 12 rice seeds from Laos sent to him in North Carolina ...

So we taught people how to grab sticky rice and roll it up in the ball and eat it with larb. Laura Barrón-López: She renamed Bangkok Golden in 2017 to Padaek, the very sauce she was taught to hide.

So we taught people how to grab sticky rice and roll it up in the ball and eat it with larb. LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: She renamed Bangkok Golden in 2017 to Padaek, the very sauce she was taught to hide.

First, wash the rice with cold water several times to remove excess starch. Then boil it in double the amount of water until the rice has the ideal sticky consistency.

May 16—July 20, 2023. That's the day Sam Phommahasay made the leap and started the food truck, Rice Box. "I come from a restaurant background," he says. "All my life, my family have had three ...

Flash floods and heavy monsoon rains have battered Laos, killing at least 20 people, washing away roads and damaging crops, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.

China funded much of the new infrastructure that transformed Laos. But the land-locked country of 7.5 million is in economic distress because of its debt. ... No sticky rice and laab.