Makes me thirsty. I think I may have to go buy one or 2 soon now. 

I will join you on that and mix with rum.  How much do they sell it for in Vientiane?

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 20^th Mar, 2011 at 5:39pm:


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

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.

PEACE wrote on 21^st Mar, 2011 at 2:48am:


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!

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.


PEACE wrote on 21^st Mar, 2011 at 2:48am:

Looking good. Nice turkey dinner with cold BeerLao.


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