Village Cooking in Laos | Meeting Family For The First Time in Savannakhet | Travel In Laos
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Village Cooking in Laos | Meeting Family For The First Time in Savannakhet | Travel In Laos
After Vientiane, I take an overnight bus to my families hometown Savannakhet, Laos. This was an emotional experience since it was my first time meeting my family and cousins in Laos since 1992. We got to face time my family in Wisconsin and meet all the kids. My cousins took me to their village an hour away and I got to see how they lived and they cooked me amazing Lao meals. All the villagers came to meet me and through me a baci to wish me a safe travel.
Xeno - This area is about 2-3 hours away from Savannakhet. It is very small and quiet. There is a bus stop in the town that you can take to get back to Savannakhet. My cousins live in a village near Xeno and it is very remote. The village had a few houses and they are all on stilts because of the heavy rain in Laos. My aunt had several cows and a pig in the back. There are several wild dogs just running around the kids play with them.
Lao Village Food - All the food was very fresh. They butchered fresh chicken for my visit. They had a few jeaws to enjoy with sticky rice and a soup.
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Saeng Douangdara is a professional chef and cooking instructor that advocates and raises awareness for Lao food through food videos and cooking classes. He is Lao American and was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. He lives in Los Angeles.
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I have family I never met from there too! My family fled and made it to America in 1979. Been here ever since ! I want to go to Laos at least once in my lifetime.
I encourage you to visit one day! It’s life changing. Laos is so peaceful and beautiful. I want to go back and visit
Thank you for sharing this video and your experience. Both of my parents are originally from Savannakhet before finding refuge in France during the Vietnam War. I look forward to visiting Laos, specifically Savannakhet once the pandemic is under control. Watching your video makes me think how both of our lives could've been so different if our parents never left. Wishing everyone good health and blessings in the country.
I hope the pandemic ends soon so you can visit. Laos is so beautiful and has so many things to offer. I also hope to visit again soon
Thank you for the video so good to see my hometown. I left in 1975 and haven’t been back
You’re welcome. I hope you get to visit one day if you want to go back and see things
Hey that's my hometown Savannakhet.
Beautiful family you got and I can't wait to visit Laos next year
Thanks for sharing. Lucky you. The memory came back pouring back watching your video
I feel very blessed and thankful to be able to visit my extended family. I learned a lot
I love visiting Laos. I love eating Laos food, especially food that comes directly from the farm.
Me too! I hope to go back soon once things are safe
I enjoyed watching your clip. Thank you so much for the beautiful views of ban nork and city life cos i am planning to spend part of my time in Savannakhet starting next month or in May after i met a really nice lady and her family online last year who are from that city. It will be my first time going back to Laos since i left the country i 1977. I really miss the food and traditional Lao culture and the friendly people. Hopefully, my daughter will get to experience her new life there too. Thanks again for sharing and so glad to see you got a chance to meet your extended family.
Hi ! I just recently subscribed to your channel! My family is from Savannakhet. I hope to go visit there one day. I love it how you said “This is a true BAN NORK Style!!” 😂😂 Thank you for sharing this video and I wish you the best on your journey!! 🙏🙏
Hello! And welcome to my channel! I hope you get to visit ban nork one day 😅😅😅 it’s a great place! 🤓
Anyone who fled their mother land. It is a bucket lists to do before X feet under.
I've been to Laos several times visiting distant relatives. I was really happy to see them, unfortunately, I can't say the same for them. Of course, they are VERY happy to meet and befriended with my $$$$$. After several visits and in each visit, my valuable just happened to be gone AWALD unnoticeably and I have a good idea of who assisted with the AWALD. For safety reasons, I pretended as nothing happened.
Wow so sorry to hear that happened to you!
Thank you for this video, it was really interesting; I'm happy you got to get acquainted with your family in Laos👍🙏
Thanks for watching. This experience was very eye opening for me. I hope to go back soon
This is SO cool!! I am so glad you got to meet your family :)))))
Thanks so much! It was a blessing to meet them 🙏
Nice vedio love it i ho🎉pe to move back to laos less than 2 years. Been tgere many time love it al my relatives still there.
I love this video!
Thanks! I miss my cousins
Wow, great video and great format. I was watching this with my mother as Savannakhet was also her province, she escaped during the war and it was nice to show her what a glimpse of her town was still like today. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us the opportunity to travel with you
That’s where my parents are from !! Love the vid
Awww we both are southern Lao!
So cool !! We visited a few years ago but I can’t wait to go back !
Smart
This is where my family is from
Very nice for going back visiting your family's. My advices is for is to have Khao maow ( green rice) there are many varieties of menues.if you have a chance to see Cicadas eggs ,you should try it and you won't regretted it
I never had khao maow before and really want to try it!
Thank you for sharing your experience makes me miss visiting there and I want to be able to take my kids so they can have the same experience and see what living in the motherland is like and u my friend were in my dads home town which I can't wait to take a trip back there❤💙.
I hope more people go back to visit Laos and reconnect with family and the motherland. It’s so important. I’m glad you want to take your kids back to show them! I’ll be going back soon since I love being there
@@SaengsKitchen yes the reason I want to take them back to show how life really is in our country and for them to appreciate everything we have in the states and not be materialistic I mean that's ok to be of course if you have it but u don't necessarily need it. Love your videos as i always tell you so keep up the great work Saeng.
Beautiful people love it.sabydi❤
Next time you in Savann hit me up I'll show you how we get down out here lol
For sure! I hope to visit again once it’s safe 🙏
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I was born here
4:07 buck sifa, soup sah
Did you have to bring a suitcase or 2 full of gifts and clothes? I had to do that for Chinese in-laws and Korean relatives
That’s funny he is name after a snack . My name is Glem which you know it means ice cream . My mom was pregnant with me at the camps and my dad was selling ice cream at the time so that how I got my name lol
So what was rhe exact village called? Yr really near my family around the seno area but outskirts in the woods lol
Laos. Viet. Ảnh em
Is it recent trip or prior to the pandemic?
Prior trip in 2019
That’s what I thought.
Tell your cousin .keep the farm .tell them not to sale it for chinese. An. Buy car.car is bo good
Just curious.... did your Laos relatives befriended with your$$$ even before they noticed you when they meet you face2face? lol. Mine did!!!
Well I came in visiting them knowing I’d be giving them money as a way to show my support.
@@SaengsKitchen good for you.
You can’t speak Lao? Just wondering
Not all Lao people from the USA can speak their mother language perfectly especially if they can't read or write Lao scripts. Most real Asians will write in scripts. Lao scripts, Thai scripts, Chinese scripts, Japanese scripts, Korean scripts. We don't copy Westernized writings like Vietnam do.
No wonder your food you cook dont look traditional lao food from the city bc ya parents from the country. Now I know why you put laab seasoning on your burgers 😂
No need to show your face all the time.You facous at the subject wchich you want to describe🙃