Troy McNaughtonLiquid refreshments in a hot, wet country
July 18th 2006 14:43
What do they drink in Laos? (in no particular order)
1. Lemon juice with the very minimum of sugar and lots of ice. Okay, it IS good on a hot day. And every day IS hot.
2. Orange drinking yoghurt. I can't think of anything worse. It was masquerading as orange juice and poor Miss E was the first to get the little poppa (popper? juice box? drink box? whatever) straw in and have a suck - both thirsty after a night out before. My heart went out to her when she found it was drinking yoghurt of the worst kind. I have never laid eyes on an orange yoghurt in the developed world!
3. What looks like orange cordial but is actually bits of floating solidified jelly that is VERY gelatinous - quite a bizarre combination of liquid and solid. Not unpleasant but again certainly a shock if you're not expecting it!
4. Beer Lao - apparently Laos' primary industry! The beer company is also the biggest supplier of bottled water (which is all most people who can afford it drink). Beer Lao is a very very light lager. Even a non-beer drinker like myself can down it with only the minimum of lemonade (shandy pamby), or if pressed and if the beer is VERY VERY cold (-2C) then maybe without. Shock and horror. I'll even wear the T-shirt!
5. Condensed milk in their coffee - get out of town! Yum yum yum. More of that. I might start carting around a tube of the stuff (greatest marketing ploy ever - much better than a lollipop) It's great - it takes care of your sugar and milk in one and you don't have to be paranoid about the dairy product factor in a place where most tourists avoid ice, salads and dairy altogether.
1. Lemon juice with the very minimum of sugar and lots of ice. Okay, it IS good on a hot day. And every day IS hot.
2. Orange drinking yoghurt. I can't think of anything worse. It was masquerading as orange juice and poor Miss E was the first to get the little poppa (popper? juice box? drink box? whatever) straw in and have a suck - both thirsty after a night out before. My heart went out to her when she found it was drinking yoghurt of the worst kind. I have never laid eyes on an orange yoghurt in the developed world!
3. What looks like orange cordial but is actually bits of floating solidified jelly that is VERY gelatinous - quite a bizarre combination of liquid and solid. Not unpleasant but again certainly a shock if you're not expecting it!
Inventive name, eh?
5. Condensed milk in their coffee - get out of town! Yum yum yum. More of that. I might start carting around a tube of the stuff (greatest marketing ploy ever - much better than a lollipop) It's great - it takes care of your sugar and milk in one and you don't have to be paranoid about the dairy product factor in a place where most tourists avoid ice, salads and dairy altogether.
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It's got to be the cheapest place to holiday - it's close (only about a 9 hour flight) and the exchange is definitely in our favour - how many currencies can you say that about?!?!
Do it!!! And book flights as soon as you can - we got stuck with a very ordinary price =P