Vegetarian Laos: the hidden paradise in Southeast Asia.

Vegetarian Journal | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

LATELY, when I've traveled around Southeast Asia, whenever I visited Vietnam, Thailand, or Malaysia, I have had no problem surviving as a vegetarian, thanks to the many vegetarian-friendly places. However, I had no idea what I would find when I got to Laos.

Laos is one of a few existing communist regimes in the world and it has been unfamiliar to western travelers until recently. The Internet, let alone guidebooks, gave me little clue as to how difficult it would be to find vegetarian food there. I was thrilled to discover a British website that reported that there was plenty ...

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