 So my name's Sue Pretty and today and this is my friend. Yeah, my name is Pat, so I'm from Laos And today we're going to prepare some traditional Laos dishes, sticky rice and a eggplant jao Yes, that's Laos food In Laos, what is eggplant jao called? Jao Mok Kuea The ingredients for the eggplant jao are eggplants which we barbecue and shallots and chilies garlic which and then we have coriander and mint And finish off with lime, but if you can't get lime you can always use lemon so we've barbecued on our Laos barbecue outside and To and you blacken the skin you cook it until it's black and also the The shallots the chilies and the garlic all but barbecued gives it a nice smoky flavor So first of all we'll prepare the sticky rice So we need to rinse it first with water until it runs clear and then you soak it for three hours So we've prepared already the sticky rice, but we'll show you what we do just with it like we would do with a normal rice you rinse it until it runs clean take any of that discolored grains off anything that floats to the surface and This is a so this is a bad traditional bamboo basket that we use for for steaming So can you what can you hold it down and I'll just stick it in Because if we don't wash good the smell is not good Boiling Normally allow we need to abide a finger only to To cross this one. Okay, then we put like this Okay enough, okay So we'll cook it for about 20 minutes, and then we'll turn the rice over might get dare to do that She's good at that and then we cook it for another 10 minutes ready cooking. So we will take out Okay, now this step to cook A fun tail we have to peel A fun skin and A fun skin you have to peel a fun skin like this take it out and Then we have to peel the onion also to get the own skin out like this and Garlic also you have to peel out and cut the heart of the head Yes And then for chili no need to peel. We just put this one out So now we're going to pound the ingredients in the mortar and pestle until it's a nice mood consistency Okay, so now we're going to taste it just to see if the if the combination of flavors is okay Or if we need more salt or more fish sauce Or more chili my taste Hmm good Good, maybe a bit more fish sauce. What do you think? a little more fish sauce Maybe a little more fish sauce or half again Maybe because we like a salty Okay, yeah, I think it's enough. Okay So next we'll add the coriander the lime So we'll just put in one cheek Because we want to get the smell of We can make by spoon Looks good So the taste not too much spicy because we made for kids can eat People the chili like this for more like spicy they can eat with chili And for me it's a plate day Because everyone means Yep, so it's done. So we'll just turn it off and now we need to cool it down a bit The rice will Some part is liquid and not nice. You know why make it a little bit worse Too easy to put Now we'll be ready to serve. So we roll it into a ball Sticks together well because it's got it and then we taste yummy Hmm