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Message started by Lao Pride Administrator on 22nd Nov, 2008 at 1:31am

Title: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Pride Administrator on 22nd Nov, 2008 at 1:31am
















Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by William Kelley on 19th Mar, 2011 at 11:12pm
Makes me thirsty. I think I may have to go buy one or 2 soon now.  :)

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Pride Administrator on 20th Mar, 2011 at 8:50am
Enjoy it, it's good for you.

Coconut water is my favourite drink.

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by MrLao4ever on 20th Mar, 2011 at 11:52am
I will join you on that and mix with rum.  How much do they sell it for in Vientiane?

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Pride Administrator on 20th Mar, 2011 at 5:39pm
It depends where you buy them.

If you buy them off the carts like the picture above, it's 3,000 kip (38c US). Small shops sell them for 4,000 kip (50c US). And coconuts in restaurants are sold up to 10,000 kip ($1.25 US).

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Democratic on 20th Mar, 2011 at 9:21pm

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 20th Mar, 2011 at 5:39pm:
It depends where you buy them.

If you buy them off the carts like the picture above, it's 3,000 kip (38c US). Small shops sell them for 4,000 kip (50c US). And coconuts in restaurants are sold up to 10,000 kip ($1.25 US).


Wow for 50c I will drink them everyday. I also love coconut. Now I really miss the the motherland.
:'(

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Pride Administrator on 20th Mar, 2011 at 10:38pm
Some locals get sick of them, because they drink them too often.

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Democratic on 21st Mar, 2011 at 12:33am
I remember when I was a kids. My grandfather have few coconut tree in his house. I think I'll get sick of them too if I drink them everyday. But I love coconut. The one in the market here is not that good because its not fresh.
8-) ;)

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by MrLao4ever on 21st Mar, 2011 at 2:48am
Coconuts in Laos should taste better than the ones sold in the US probably of different varieites of coconut.  Coconuts sold in Laos are most likely grown 'organically' as well so taste should be much better than 'conventiionally' grown coconuts.


llX wrote on 21st Mar, 2011 at 12:33am:
I remember when I was a kids. My grandfather have few coconut tree in his house. I think I'll get sick of them too if I drink them everyday. But I love coconut. The one in the market here is not that good because its not fresh.
8-) ;)

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Old Man on 21st Mar, 2011 at 6:55pm

PEACE wrote on 21st Mar, 2011 at 2:48am:
Coconuts in Laos should taste better than the ones sold in the US probably of different varieites of coconut.  Coconuts sold in Laos are most likely grown 'organically' as well so taste should be much better than 'conventiionally' grown coconuts.


It would be nice to believe that indigenous, local varieties grown organically taste better than modern varieties.  Unfortunately, that is generally not the case.

Have you ever eaten a wild carrot?  I have and believe me, you wouldn't like it - they are incredibly bitter as well as being tiny.  The modern tasty varieties of all the vegetables we eat are the result of hundreds of years of selective breeding by farmers.  Unfortunately, in Laos, there has been little selective breeding for taste and size - especially of livestock.

Those of you in the U.S. typically enjoy a Thanksgiving turkey that looks like this:



You won't find any local Lao poultry with even a quarter of the amount of meat on that bird.

Same applies to local varieties of cows, pigs, etc as well as many vegetables.  Boy, what I would give for some of my home country's 'Jersey New Potatoes' right now!

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Democratic on 21st Mar, 2011 at 9:31pm
Thankgiving is one of my favorite holiday. That's a good looking turkey.
:P

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Democratic on 21st Mar, 2011 at 9:36pm
That's true because it's not fresh here. Maybe weather have something to do with it too. Here I think they grew them in California, Florida or Hawaii. For cow, pig, chicken they used protein or vitamin to feed the animals to make them grow faster with more meat.  In Laos it's all natural, organic.
8-) ;)


PEACE wrote on 21st Mar, 2011 at 2:48am:
Coconuts in Laos should taste better than the ones sold in the US probably of different varieites of coconut.  Coconuts sold in Laos are most likely grown 'organically' as well so taste should be much better than 'conventiionally' grown coconuts.


llX wrote on 21st Mar, 2011 at 12:33am:
I remember when I was a kids. My grandfather have few coconut tree in his house. I think I'll get sick of them too if I drink them everyday. But I love coconut. The one in the market here is not that good because its not fresh.
8-) ;)

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Pride Administrator on 21st Mar, 2011 at 10:57pm


I wouldn't mind trying Miss Garland's turkey.

Title: Re: Coconut in Vientiane
Post by Lao Democratic on 22nd Mar, 2011 at 12:42am
Looking good. Nice turkey dinner with cold BeerLao.
:P


Admin Saovaluck wrote on 21st Mar, 2011 at 10:57pm:


I wouldn't mind trying Miss Garland's turkey.

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