Yoyo Owner of Yoyo Laos Sauce Home yoyolaossauce yoyolaossauce Halifax, UK “I really wanted people to know about Laos and lao food. Laos is such a small country and people don’t know about it.” What’s the name of your business and how did you come up with it? My business name is Yoyo Laos Sauce, …
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Lea Owner of Black Gold Sauce https://blackgoldsauce.net/ blackgoldsauce blackgoldsauce Orlando, Florida “Black Gold was a humorous name we gave the product due to its significant value as a mother sauce for our family traditional cuisine.” What’s the name of your business and how did you come up with it? Black Gold Sauce ( Lao Padaek). …
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BETHEL — The owners of Mu Noi Brunch closed the popular Center Street restaurant in June after almost a year in business to focus on their original Bethel location, teasing at the time about opportunities for growth. That growth is almost official: Le Mu Eats is moving from a food trailer on Mechanic Street into …
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An unassuming food stand at the Vancouver Farmers Market, WeLa Lao has been quietly churning out some of the best Southeast Asian food in the Portland-metro area since May. Last year, proprietor Suzanne Phengsy was displaced by the Almeda fire when it devastated the town of Phoenix, Oregon. She was readying to open WeLa in …
Alex Hanesakda and his family came to Wisconsin as refugees in 1982 following the Secret War in Laos. As he grew up in Burlington in western Racine County, his mother would sell egg rolls to help the family get by. The egg rolls not only helped the family afford basic necessities like clothes, but also …
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Yoyo’s Laos Sauce was established in 2020 in Halifax by Hatsadee Xayavongchanch (Yoyo), who is originally from Laos and is supporting the MAG to clear landmines and unexploded bombs, which have killed 20,000 people since the Vietnam War ended, almost half have been children. A donation from the sale of every bottle of Yoyo Laos …
I had the chance to go on a short trip to Japan for the annual “Laos Festival in Japan.” It took place from May 25 to 26, 2018 in Tokyo (Shibuya), Japan at the Yoyogi Park (however, I was only able to attend on Saturday the 25th). Because the Lao population is small in numbers …
Taurine, the energy-drink ingredient purported to increase stamina and athletic performance, was first isolated in beef bile — hence the brand name Red Bull. Today, the taurine in sodas and supplements is synthetic, but South Area Market, one of Sacramento’s longest-standing Lao restaurants, serves the real thing. Order thom keuang nai, roughly translated “intestines soup” …
Donny Sirisavath—the chef and owner of lauded Lao restaurant Khao Noodle Shop in Dallas, Texas—has been interested in food for as long as he can remember. In fact, it was this curiosity and obsession with trying new things that landed him in the hospital to get his stomach pumped after mistaking a box of rat …
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While Southern California is home to a spattering of Lao restaurants and other businesses, it is by no means the epicenter of the Lao and Lao American communities in the United States like it is for many other peoples. In addition to the Northern Virginian outskirts of Washington D.C., Dallas and its surrounding area became …
