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Festival of Lao Foods on Saturday: Don’t Miss This!

On Saturday, Wat Lao Saysettha, a Lao Buddhist temple in south Santa Rosa, hosts another of its festivals featuring delicious home-style Lao foods and beverages, like beef laarb, papaya salad, pho, meekahtee (a noodle soup with ground pork, coconut milk, eggs and peanuts), meatballs, chicken wings, sticky rice, iced Lao coffee and more. (Not all items are offered at every festival; there have been several celebrations this year.) Melanie Wong, as enthusiastic and knowledgeable an eater as you’ll find anywhere,… Read More »