What we've been eating

Breakfast is included with our hotel rooms...a fried egg, two pieces of wonderbread, two small hot dogs, and all the nescafe you want to drink. After such delicious repasts, we've been finding ourselves taking pastry breaks in the mid-morning. The Scandinavian bakery does some nice eclairs, croissants and other pastries.

We've had some not so great lao food, but also some very good lao food. It's a bit spicier than Cambodian, which is nice (for all but Declan). Several times we've eaten "special pork" sandwiches, which are a lot like bahn mi, but with a combination of lao pate and pork lunch meat.

We also had a nice French meal one night. Richard ate the eggplant lasagne (I know, not all that french really), Aidan had a steak with red wine sauce, and I had a steak with a basil and chevre sauce. And a huge green salad, with an olive oil dressing.

We've been living dangerously here, but Lao food features lots of beautiful fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, with miscellaneous other fresh veggies. Too hard to avoid, and they taste so good after eating nothing but cooked veggies for a month. We'll probably pay for it, but everything thus far has seemed really clean and no one's had any problems.