He described the food as being "just ... that placed a spotlight on Laos, Gordon Ramsay also sampled lao-lao, which is a local moonshine made from steamy, sticky rice -- a staple of the ...

it's been a staple food in Laos and northern Thailand for most of that time. Sticky rice, which is also known as sweet rice and glutinous rice, contains almost 100% amylopectin starch, far more ...

Sticky rice, for the most part, is eaten with your hands “Khao niao,” says Phanhvilay, repeating its name in Lao. “It is a glutinous rice that is grown in Laos and Northern Thailand.

In Laos, most dishes are shared and one uses little kneaded balls of sticky rice, and the aid of a thumb, to transfer food from bowl to mouth. The process should be neat, quick and elegant ...

Vendors from surrounding villages – mostly women – arrive before sunrise, setting up pitches on the floor and offering everything from rice to foraged herbs, chilli peppers, frogs, dried ...