How to pronounce “lao” in English

Again, it transforms an impulse into a choice.Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, said it even more succinctly.

It looks not like what we're doing.- Laowai Style.

It looks not like what we're doing.Laowai Style.

There's Vietnam. If you talk out against the government, you're in trouble.Laos is a communist country.I just got back from Cambodia.

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.Laos is like Thailand was like 50 years ago.

So we went from Laos to Thailand.And Laos is a kind of third world communist country that has more dirt roads, things were more primitive.But in Thailand, things are much more westernized.

Here's in 1889. The world's fairs in Paris, you know France was the colonial power that ruled Cambodia,and Laos, and Vietnam.Holland ruled Indonesia. Britain ruled Burma.

The 4-minute scene represents about how long, what do you think?.Typically Laos show for instance.Maybe it's a four, five, six minute meal scene.

It's like the California CBO.Just look at the LAO's projection in the next, just the next four years.In the next four years, there's a $93 billion hole, a deficit in the budget.

All right. So you got your hot pan.I'm Lao. And-- Hi.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?Thai and Lao-- OK.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?they're all Lao. So they go to the city, you know, to roll the dice on the dream, and make a living in a big city.

And the language of the north is different from the language of the center is different from the language of the northeast ,which is where mostly Lao and Khmer people live.The climates are very different.

up I couldn't understand a single thing that I was hearing and I couldn't say a single word and to the point where Iwondered if Hmong Lao sure my teacher had possibly been teaching us Cantoneseinstead of Mandarin but you know we I've we sorted it all out I mean I later

thing to have that sense of, "Okay I don't know what my future's gonna hold, but I am gonna live more mindfully; I am going to make time for the things that matter to me." SoI-I love Lao, they say Lao in-in the local country 'cause it's French or Laos here, because they just opened it up to tourism not that long ago and I feel like in other parts of

It looks not like what we're doing.This is "Laowai Style." So this is the week that I moved here in 2012 to start the Fulbright was right at the same time

It looks not like what we're doing.So this is Laowai Style.

You may recall terms like the domino theory, the idea that the United States had to intervene in Vietnam, because failure to do so might resultin other countries like Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, being vulnerable to Soviet or Chinese backed aggressionor insurrection. So there's a sense in which geopolitics provides a very vivid, powerful language as well as a kind of visual medium through maps

So this is nothing new.It's that Laos enters into these agreements knowing perfectly well that there's a kind of what I would call a sovereignty bargaining going on.

So this is nothing new.But what Laos has off also discovered is that, and it's true of, I think, a lot of trade agreements, is that they

Something else is kind of taking over in a way.There's the Laozian stop trying.

Now the last kind of experience I wanted to talk to you about, with the unknown, it was in Thailand.So we went from Laos to Thailand.And Laos is a kind of third world communist country that has more dirt roads, things were more primitive.

Or to Laos, of course.

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.This is over in Laos.

Southern China into Laos and it had been captured by border patrol soldiers as I stood there with my hands in the air I

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?difference between what you consider Thai and Lao?

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?used to be part of the Lao Kingdom, when Thailand was called Siam.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?And then that's how the Lao culture, you know, infused into Thai culture.

And then you might eventually get to Lao or Uzbek Setswana, or you may never get there.

I'll be like a laos underneath the collar of your tunic.

All right. So you got your hot pan.--laab is the national dish of Laos, actually, along with sticky rice.

It's not like this Laos egg versus that Laos egg.

So this is nothing new.So I think what you heard in Laos, you're going to hear in many other parts of the world.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?a lot of it originated from Laos.

Is this one of your more popular sellers at the restaurant?I haven't been to Laos.

And so what started in rural Laos grew to Nicaragua and Guatemala, eventually Ghana.

My dad set up the Laois Arts Festival, which was a big deal at the time.

Little girls that he met in Laos who had never been in a classroom, had never had a classroom before.

So we had of a Laos man who was really the young woman that said, social media is good.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.The last one is Rene in Laos.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.He up and moved to Laos knowing zero language, just to make a difference, and thought it would be a great experience.

I'm coming back in an hour to see if you've started.If a little kid in Laos steals our bike, everybody knows it's not his.

We have 3D printers in Laos that are producing literacy tool kits, and then we're using sign language to teach early stage phonetics, which is, in my mind,

I just have to get off this ship so I'm taking some snapshots just walking around the ship.This picture taken out in Laos early one morning, I love the clouds, I love the setting, but if we take the person out of the scene -- this is taken a few minutes

were living in was called Laoteria.

All right. So you got your hot pan.Essentially, every Lao family makes their own roasted rice for laab.

You might have to try a little bit more searching.I think Chef took a trip to Oakland to some Lao marks and Thai markets to find a couple of ingredients.He was searching a little bit.

They own Singha. They're connected to the royal family.But you can also go down to the local Lao Khao stand and you can buy a whole bottle of rice whiskey for 80 baht.

They own Singha. They're connected to the royal family.And that approximates what kind of a crappy Lao Khao, or whiskey will be like.