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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snackboxe Bistro opened last month in Doraville, offering a rare taste of Lao cooking in an area where so many other styles of Asian and Southeast Asian food can be easily found. First-time ...

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 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: ...