Nang Keophommavong is no rookie in the kitchen. She's been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years — both as a cook and as a consultant to help open restaurants in other states. At 60, she ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): The Vientiane Administration Office has announced the temporary closure of the First Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge in Vientiane from 6 to 7:30am on Sunday (April 21). The ...

The owners of Lao restaurant Snackboxe Bistro in Duluth will open Naga Bistro this fall in Chamblee. Taking over the Wild Ginger Thai Cuisine space on Savoy Drive, Naga Bistro will include a full bar ...

VIENTIANE (Bernama-Xinhua): The fifth Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge, linking Bolikhamxay province in Laos to Thailand's northeastern province of Bueng Kan, is set to open in December 2025, enhancing ...

PHETCHABUN, ThailandPHETCHABUN, Thailand — Thai troops packed more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong into military trucks for a one-way journey to Laos, all but ending the Hmong’s three-decade search for asylum ...

“Hot? Hot-hot? Hot-hot-hot?” Sanaa stands there, in one hand a big pestle at the ready, in the other, a bunch of nasty little green and red chili peppers ready to throw in for crushing. Ready to burn ...

Sacramento eaters are used to getting their southeast Asian dining fix in the southern reaches of the city, but new Lao-Thai restaurant Green Papaya is so far south you might be forgiven for ...

I had only just walked into the place, a new dine-in/takeout strip-mall venue in Sanford, and my dinner plan was unraveling like the plot of an old Keanu Reeves movie. Pop quiz, hotshot: There’s a ...

Let me just preface this by saying that regardless of the food quality, this whole area was a parking nightmare and you might risk losing your sanity in search of a spot here. Now that we’ve ...

Stiks (Asian food chop chop!) is the new name denoting “chop sticks” at the Taste of Asia, a popular Sarasota restaurant that updated its image and reopened recently. “We decided to rebrand our ...

Fresh herbs, hearty soups and powerful, funky fish flavors are just a few of the hallmarks of Laotian food, a cuisine that isn’t widely represented in the United States but is showcased at a number of ...