This basket, taking up only one burner on the stove, is called a Thip Khao, a sticky rice steamer commonly used in Laos and traditional Lao cuisine. For Nupohn Inthanousay, 29, it was used for ...

Sticky rice is the staple food of Laotian meals, and green rice paddies can seem to spread to the horizon. Lao-lao, a rice whiskey, requires sticky rice to be steamed and washed, then fermented ...