{"id":7571,"date":"2022-02-10T02:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatlao.com\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2022-02-10T02:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:38:43","slug":"a-lao-couple-opened-a-new-restaurant-and-bar-that-serves-asian-comfort-food-on-milwaukees-northwest-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatlao.com\/a-lao-couple-opened-a-new-restaurant-and-bar-that-serves-asian-comfort-food-on-milwaukees-northwest-side\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lao couple opened a new restaurant and bar that serves Asian comfort food on Milwaukee’s northwest side"},"content":{"rendered":"
A couple from\u00a0Laos\u00a0recently opened\u00a0a restaurant and bar that serves Asian comfort food on Milwaukee’s northwest\u00a0side.<\/p>\n
Sia Xiong and Johnni Sihavong named their new business AN\u00a0OX Caf\u00e9\u00a0after their\u00a0birth year: the Chinese zodiac year of the ox.<\/p>\n
The restaurant specializes in Lao\u00a0and Thai cuisines, and features\u00a0starters, salads, soups, curries, noodles, entrees and a\u00a0hot fudge s’mores cake for dessert, according to its menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sihavong said one of the most popular salads so far has been the Larb ($15.99), a “meat salad” that has thin-sliced beef, rice flour, fresh lime juice, red onion and fresh mint. For soups, he recommended the pho ($15.99), which is made with\u00a0rice noodles, beef soup, beef, meatballs and tendons.<\/p>\n A popular entr\u00e9e has been the volcano chicken ($16.99), he said, which features lightly breaded chicken breast served on a bed of saut\u00e9ed cabbages and carrots and topped with the restaurant’s special volcano sauce.<\/p>\n