 Andrew, you said you have a heavy statement to make. I made a heavy statement earlier. This is the greatest sausage in the world. Gordon Ramsay has just said that the best food destination in the entire world is the country of Laos. David, you got something to say to this guy. Yeah, I got something to say to that British colonizer. What? So dominant. Yeah, what? So directives. Say it. He is absolutely correct. I'm telling you, as somebody who seeks out Laos food everywhere I go, even though I have not been to the country of Laos, I'm telling you Gordon Ramsay, he knows his stuff. Now, you can argue whether or not you know why these white guys still dominate all these global narratives about food or whatever. Or some people in the Yahoo comments are like, I'm sick of having diversity shoved down my throat. Give us food. I can pronounce. I don't like it. But we got to get into it. And we got to analyze the micro to the macro of what he was trying to say. Because Andrew, a lot of people don't know. Laos food is probably like the most underrated cuisine in the world, if not. And you've been saying it for years, David. You have been a big proponent of Laos food. You always Google it. You search for it, at least for sure, all in New York and California. So let's go through some of these clips off YouTube. And we'll learn a little bit about Laos food. And hopefully by the end of this video, you are interested in trying Laos food. Like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, Andrew. Let's get into the links. So this is him talking on a Korean TV show. Yes, that's a really good question. I recently came out of Laos and going back to the provinces and spending time in the countryside away from the tourist traps. The food was just off the charts. Vietnam, extraordinary melting pot of Vietnam. And so I fell in love. There was just such a humble approach to eating incredible food. And then Madrid, there's so many exciting things going on in Madrid as well. So I get to challenge my palate by traveling all over the world and finding the best locations. But yeah, Laos. Yeah, Laos. I just came out of there. And I want to go back. I'm real quick, Andrew. We got some videos because we got to explain to people because I would say the majority of people, maybe even including Asians, have no idea where Laos is. If you just graduated high school. For sure, I think if you're like Vietnamese or Laos or Thai yourself, you probably know a little bit more. But yeah, let's go to geography now. I love this channel. He breaks down the geography, food, and people very well about places. So let's just learn a little bit real quick. Let's begin. If I could describe Laos location in two words, I'd probably say beautifully unfortunate. First of all, Laos landlocked in Southeast Asia, bordered by all the other mainland peninsula Indochina nations, as well as China to the north. The country is divided into 17 provinces and one prefecture, Campegna Con, which includes the capital, Vien Tien. Or Vien Chien. I've heard Laos people pronounce it both ways. I don't know exactly which one is correct. I'm more inclined to say Vien Chien though because I don't trust that T, but. Yeah, so I mean, Andrew, like you said, where is Laos located? It's surrounded by a bunch of delicious neighbors. Guys, all the neighbors are delicious. So how can the food not be delicious? Now, maybe it is landlocked, so they're using more river fish for their seafood and stuff like that. However, I'll tell you this, as far as the herbs go, David, the herbs, the Lao herbs, they're top notch, man. And you know what I love about Lao food is I feel like they do have some slight influence from the neighbors, but they really got their own unique thing going on. And even if they were to cook a shared dish, like the pork with egg stew, Andrew, that, you know, a lot of the countries may have, they're going to cook it their own way for sure. All right, guys, let's real quick, let's see what geography now has to say about the food. For 80% of the population works in agriculture and Lao food is quite delicious, similar to other regions around them, but noticeably spicy. You have things like papaya salad or tamak huang, the national dish, la bamboo shoot soup, mok, sour sausage, and kao lam, which is sticky rice made in a bamboo pipe. Oh, and they have this rice whiskey thing called lao lao. That stuff is weird. Like, sometimes they ferment it with snakes. Okay, so I'm part Asian, so I can say this. Asians, why do we do that? Why do we ferment whole animals in our drinks? What's the appeal of power before stamina? Dude, it's a rotting corpse extracting decomposed carcinogens. Stop doing it. What's the little message at the end? Hey, but man, that's just the OGs. That's the way, you know, they put a cobra head in there. Yeah, Andrew, you heard it. A lot of people work in agriculture. The food is extra fresh and it's like extra fermented and extra spicy. If 80% of your population works in agriculture, the food is gonna be fizzier. And I know that the flavors of lao food, they more exist on the extremes, like really fermented, really, really hyper fresh and not in the moderate zone. David, I gotta give you a shout out because back when we were in Dallas with our friend Jack, which Dallas actually has a booming like lao and Southeast Asian food scene, we ate at one of these restaurants and you made a statement that was very similar to what Gordon Ramsay said. Shout out to Donnie and kao noodle shop. Say noodle. This ain't right. Kao noodle shop is one of my favorite restaurants. Whoa, whoa. Let me run that back. I'm just saying, man. I'm just saying the world didn't react to that statement the way they reacted to Gordon Ramsay's statement, but I said it like five years earlier. All right, big shout out to Donnie Cera-Sevath. He's a great chef over in Dallas. He got a new chicken spot. Go check it out in Dallas. Go check out Kao Fried Chicken. All right, David, before we wind down, we gotta talk to people about our favorite lao dishes and the lao dishes that they can probably find in America because I think one of the issues about lao food reaching that level like Thai food is that there's just not a lot of lao restaurants and any lao dishes you can get, oftentimes you'll get them at Thai restaurants. Yeah, but a lot of lao people, they came as immigrants to America. They wanna survive. They wanna make a living and thrive, right? So they open up Thai restaurants because they know how to cook the Thai food, but even, but they might only have like one to three lao dishes on the menu because they don't feel like the larger public wants real lao food. They would rather get the Bangkok Chinese Thai style dishes, which is like more like Pad Siu and stuff like that, but they're not gonna get the, you know, all the different varieties of tamakoon and fried sticky rice. But now you're seeing Isan Thai restaurants, which now Isan Thai is pretty much lao food. Right, I would say 90% from what I heard. Yeah, so now that's kind of a way to serve lao food, but still saying it as Thai. But you have to call it Isan Thai in the same way that like Sichuan Chinese is so different from Cantonese Chinese. This is your favorite. I think I ordered too much, but this is what a lao feast looks like. My friends and I went to Oh, I think that these are kind of representative of the dishes you could find in America. Try all their lao food. This place was unassuming, but once we got to the back, it was this gorgeous outdoor dining. Thai lao, man. That's like one of the nicest lao restaurants I've ever seen. So this is all the iconic lao foods we ordered. It was bamboo baskets with rice, ki. Kao pon, Sai o, Oh my God, the sao. Dhamak tang, soup no mai, goi ba, nam kao. This is what it's like when people watch some of our videos. And of course we eat everything with sticky rice. Then we had surprise with stuffed chicken wings. Which dish is your favorite? I think I ordered. The sao oi is my favorite. Can you answer that question? This one right here, oh, David. Can we just clap it up for the sao oi real quick? That's a 10 out of 10, baby. Andrew, you said, you have a heavy statement to make. I made a heavy statement earlier. This is the greatest sausage in the world. Hold up, hold up, hold up, not just in Asia, you said the world. I said the world, guys. I'm talking about the kielbasa. Yes, that is included. I'm talking about the polis sausage. I'm talking about the lap cheong from China. I'm talking about any sausage in the world, guys. This is it. This is him. And I think I prefer it grilled, but the fried one is still good as well. Man, stop. Look at those herbs, bro. I'm just gonna zoom in for you guys. Look at the colors. Do you guys know when you Google Lao food, do you see the rainbow of colors that you're looking at? That's how you know a food is delicious. When you see all these colors, look. Cow soy, too. Cow soy is really good. The pork noodle, man. These are just some of the dishes that you can find. I don't know. Can we just try to say them a little bit? Like I said, Andrew, we haven't had all these dishes because I've only been to maybe seven Lao restaurants in America, maybe 10. Go for it. Try to speak Lao, I mean we'll do our best. Do not be offended, guys. My bad, I have no coaching in this. Tam tang, yam het, pa mok nao. Hey, Judge David's Lao accent. Tot mak il, pa bong fai dang, pa dok, pa dok, Andrew. I'm not gonna lie straight up, I know some people who look like pa dok. Let me try. Ping ka mu, sa oi kwang, ping gai. Guy, yeah, guy's the same chicken. Ping jut, coconut, kao pun. I had that at a kao noodle shop. That was really good too. Oh my gosh. Man, it's crazy to see Andrew. What do you think overall? Because it kind of caused a stir on the Yahoo comments. You know how Yahoo comments always keeping it real middle America? Some people are like, oh yeah, what? Gordon Ramsay, let me guess, he's gonna name some stuff I can't pronounce and I can't find it. I won't like diversity, getting shoved down on throats, 2022, what's new? And other people were just like, you know, there was even a comment being like, how can we support Vietnamese food after the war? And people were like, I'm pretty sure a lot of people still like German food and Japanese food and they were part of the war too. And then so, you know, it's so funny because Yahoo news just gets, you get the boomer comments. I mean, I wish that they would just be like, wait, how come all these people are always saying all this Southeast Asian food is the best? Maybe I should go try it. Yeah, maybe you'd like it. Yeah, I mean. I do think the Badak is like pretty strong for Americans, but, you know, I think there's not only ways for the Lao American purveyors of restaurants to tone it down and meet at a middle point. I think that's what they did, account noodle shop to some extent. And then also like for the local people to step up their taste bud game. So I do think Gordon Ramsay saying all this will kind of spark some tourism to go to Laos. Food tourism. Or at least seeking out Lao restaurants around your area. However, I will say this like, Laos is not maybe in the same situation as Vietnam or Thailand. So it's not as like tourist centric. Like I'm sure you can go there, but it's not as set up for that, right? You know, in the same way that Thailand is. And I heard that that's what people like about it. And that's why the cuisine is so crazy because they don't got 7-Elevens. They don't have these multinational chains like McDonald's there. Like Thailand has all of those now. So that's why people were like, yo, when I go to Laos, it's like stepping into Thailand in like 1962. Yeah, I mean, and that's a compliment by the way. But yeah, I mean, guys, what we mean to say is, Lao food is great. And we've always given it rave reviews on our channel. We got receipts too. We got 600,000 hit. Gordon Ramsay wasn't the first person to say this. But it does mean a lot when he does. You know what, Gordon Ramsay, he doesn't work. Bro, he's swimming in the waters. He's eating the grasshoppers. He's looking like a frog man down there. He does not care. He's doing everything. Hey man, he's like one of those British divers that helped save the Thai soccer team, bro. That's what he is. He's out there. He's out there. Guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think about Gordon Ramsay's opinions. Lao people out there, let us know where we should go. Like in major cities, what spots have good Lao food? Because again, they're hard to find, right? You might find them at a Thai restaurant, for example. So give us that insider info. Yeah, I hope this encourages you guys to check out Lao food wherever you're at or go to your local Thai restaurant that's owned by a Lao person. Ask them for the specific Lao dishes that I'm sure I'd like select on the menu. Let us know what you think in the comment section below, guys. Until next time, Lao food is delicious. We out. Like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. We out. Peace.