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This is Day 2 of our food culture trip in Laos, if you haven’t seen Khmu Food Part 1, you can watch it here:
We woke up naturally to the sounds in the early morning and sat around and hung out, just enjoying the fresh cool are. We strolled around the Khmu village for a little while before we packed up and headed to a Hmong village not too far away.
When I reached out to you during my trip to Laos and asked you for suggestions one what I should eat or cover, many of you said I should try Hmong food. Now Hmong restaurant are not that common, so the best way to eat Hmong food is to go to a local family home and have them cook. Along with Alex from White Elephant Adventures (http://www.white-elephant-adventures-laos.com/), he was able to arrange it for us.
Our Hmong meal was buffalo, all types and variations. The two main and favorite Hmong food dishes they made were raw buffalo with a huge amount of bile, and cooked buffalo with raw blood. We also had some buffalo stew, soup, and roasted buffalo.
Probably the most fascinating thing to me about Hmong culture and food as opposed to most of Laos is that Hmong typically eat white steamed rice as opposed to sticky rice. And unlike just about every other culture I’ve witnessed in Asia, where you get your own bowl of rice and share all the side dishes, in Hmong culture you have a communal bowl of rice and share everything. It may seem different to Western culture, but it really brings out a sense of family and community.
The food was awesome, all things buffalo. I especially liked the raw buffalo with bile, that was the best Hmong food of the meal.
It was an amazing day and I learned a lot about Hmong food, a quick introduction. Thank you for watching!
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I gotta shut this off ur are turnin Andrew zimern
Mark take my silly advice don’t eat all those weird foods these things can make u sick u are not accustomed to these foods and they also have these weird viruses going around there can be nothing delicious about bile it is bitter and nasty so is raw meat
Lam muab lub npe rau Hmoob ris xwb sav! Txhob txaj muag tias Hmoob tej zaub mov tsis qab no mas, thiab cas tsis cia rau Hmoob ua?
Assume video brother!!!!
alright Mark! Hmong food! Love it!
Mark, where is your mother land?
Thanks for answering in advance.
I love how respectful you are when you show us other culture.
When you join the winning side of the war (Pathet Laos/Vietnam), you're rewarded (Khmu), when you joined the losing side of the war (Kingdom of Laos/America), well… you live in stick houses.
Hmong here in 2019?♥️
Mark, if you ever come to Milwaukee Wisconsin. Come visit me. I’ll cook you some Hmong soul food. Pumpkin leaves with pork rinds.?
I was born in luangprobang Laos but my family came to America when I was a baby. Never gone back to visit. I was raised here in America and have been here for 39 years. It is interesting to see you visiting and trying out Hmong food. Thank you for sharing this.
i’m happy u visited the hmong a blood taste good
All hmong food are from the country they live in i dont think they have any that are originally theirs….
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Mark wien I'm so happy to see you trying out hmong food.
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great video!! would love to visit someday as well, thanks for sharing.
I’m salivating watching this.
shows how much hmong people watch this guy, dang thought i was the only one
Please come us in USA taste more Authentic Lao Cuisine.
He has a always smile
my people
My 70 year old Hmong mother and I just finished watching this. She says this is not a Hmong family. According to her, Hmong houses don’t look like that and Hmong women don’t carry babies like that. She mentioned that many Hmong communities in Laos are still being persecuted and the Hmong travel guide misled Mark because the Lao government still wants to hid media/outsiders from Hmong people. She says these folks look more like Khmu.
Nyob zoo,I Thank you for going to Visit my people,Even when I never went to Thailand or Laos,Too be honest I'm only 11 and I never got too see my Grandpa before he died,I hope too see him in heaven,plus the food looks delicious.
Mark please go to Facebook and ask when the next July forth or New Years because the hmong people have big festivals in the us. Especially in Minnesota and please get a guide so they can bring you the best spots in the festival. They rent out 100 acres and soccer fields to throw celebration
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