fruit flies like a banana.

Monday, June 26, 2006

sticky rice trademark of food in Laos. sticky rice which i cannot digest sticky rice is called "kao niao"
where "kao" is rice and "niao" is sticky.
i lost my entire newly made Lao 'dictionary' on the last day. how apt. and sad.
anyway related words are.
"hew khao" --> hungry
"eeem" --> full
"saap" --> delicious
"saap lai" --> very delicious
"wan" (as in bowl in chinese) --> sweet
"kin kao" --> eat food
"aa haan" --> FOOD
"kin kao sao" --> breakfast

icecream for 3000 kip which is 30 cents us which is about 45 cents sing.

"ker larm" --> icecream
important word in our vocabulary

morning market vientiane
weee many many purchases and running aroudn and souveniers and lao skirts and knick knacks.
opens at 8am and closes at 4pm
where
"pet mooong" --> 8 o clock
"pet moong kern" --> 8.30