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Laomerican Cooking HalLaoween Edition: The 5-Layer Phi Dip!

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It always happens, you spent so much time getting your HalLaoween costume ready for the big party, you’re just about out of time to bring over a dish for the hosts? What to do, what to do? Thanks to almost a year of trial and error experiments with our families and friends (Thanks for being the test subjects!) we can present the 5-Layer Phi Dip, which isn’t “fancy” but it’s saep lai and easy to fix on the run, if you’ve got the right stuff on hand. You’ll need: 1 tub of cooked beef laab (most guests hate raw laab in this dish) 1 can of refried beans or a can of chili with beans 1 white onion diced 1 tomato diced 1 green pepper diced 1-2 Lao chili peppers, diced 1 dash of ghost pepper powder, if you dare. 1 can mango habanero salsa or whatever good brand you can find. 1 package of shredded cheese (unless lactose intolerance is an issue.) Put the refried beans or chili on top of the cooked beef …

Recipe: The Som Num Na Cocktail

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TBIF. It’s been a long short month. We understand. Friday is here. Spring is upon us. Pretty soon, it’ll be Lao New Year. It’s time to celebrate the weekend with a little Lao kick to your early happy hour. If you’re a Southeast Asian food junkie, you’ve probably had the Tum Yum Siam Cocktail at some point. There’s an array of alcoholic concoctions that are full of the bitter sweet flavors that’s the hallmark of Vientiane. I had the spiciest tum yum cocktail at Sticky Fingers Cafe. At Spirit House, I almost passed out from the Zombie Cocktail, which tasted like a summer dream one second, then the next second, it may have tasted like death because my brain was pretty numb. We got a bigger bite that’s our Lao Diaspora-inspired twist to the Tum Yum Cocktail original. It’s an All-Lao American cocktail to get you dazed through the midnight hour to forget those woes with a potential som num na in the morning. Cheers. The Som Num Na Cocktail   2 oz. of Lao-Lao (A type of Lao vodka/whiskey. Refer to …