Anthony Bourdain in Laos

Anthony Bourdain is the mutharfucc'n MAYOR!!

You fake ass, krab ass gangbanger. It's pretty damn similar. And the Vietnamese make those exact same noodles, you know how I know? I've been to Laos before. We don't make the same stock, the stock is uniquely Lao but the noodles are identical, created through the same time old process. Vietnamese eat those noodles everyday. Those noodles aren't made in secret, everyone knows what they are. Vietnam is food crazy. Ask Anthony Bourdain what country is his favorite in Asia. That would be "Vietnam."

I met this Hmong tribe in the mountians of Vietnam and they all speak Vietnamese. I asked them if they were Vietnamese, and they said no. I asked them if they were born in the village. They said yes. I asked them if they are a citizen of Vietnam, they said yes. As the day went on, I laughed and laughed, they didn't claim to be Viet yet they are citizens of Vietnam, eat Vietnamese dishes, speak Vietnamese and half of them have Viet blood in them. Traditional Hmong dishes are terrible.

Actually, the Chinese invented rice noodles 5000 years ago. But the region of China where it was created is ironically the same place where the first Vietnamese nation was founded about 1000 years later. So in a sense, the Ancestors of the Vietnamese created Rice Noodles. The Vietnamese took a local dish and made some awesome food with it. In my honest opinion, the Vietnamese make the best rice noodle dishes and soups. But it doesn't mean that Laotians can't cook, they too are awesome cooks.

Ignore your parents, and go there yourself. Lao is one of the best places to visit in the world. I traveled all over SE Asia alone against my parents wishes and never regretted a single moment of it.

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