{"id":69,"date":"2011-02-15T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-03-01T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:12:31","slug":"food-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Food Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"
When bicycling through the remote mountains of Laos, it is easy to build up a hunger.\u00a0 One of the things about cycling is that you need energy – lots of it – which means you\u00a0get <\/span>have to eat\u00a0 much more than normal.\u00a0 Many calories out\u00a0make us need\u00a0many calories in. <\/p>\n

However, this is a problem when\u00a0 cycling through humongous mountains and remote primitive villages without a shop or restaurant within a hundred miles.\u00a0 But we didn’t have to worry.\u00a0 Our fantastic bicycle guide, Chit, came well-stocked with noodles and fresh vegetables to make soup.\u00a0 The Vietnamese call this type of concoction pho, but the Laotians simply call it noodle soup.<\/p>\n

Chit also brought along a camping stove,\u00a0a cute little folding table with bright plastic chairs, glass bowls, and chop sticks.\u00a0 The van driver carried all of these items along with a cooler of cold drinks and went ahead to have a little picnic site organized by the time we pedaled there.\u00a0 We felt so pampered sitting around the table placed on the lightly traveled mountain roads and eating our warm and nourishing meal.\u00a0 Take a look.<\/p>\n

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Our little lunch stop is set up on the rarely-used road.\u00a0 What you don’t know from\u00a0this photo is that two of us fell over the edge of the road while sitting in our little red chairs right before this was taken.\u00a0 We were okay, and I didn’t even spill my soft drink.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here is my broken chair.\u00a0 I really don’t weigh that much, do I?<\/em><\/div>\n

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This little camping stove worked perfectly for cooking our soup.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Chit used this little basket to carry the fresh vegetables and seasonings which included very hot, hot peppers which we didn’t eat.\u00a0 We thought mint was an interesting addition along with the tomatoes, spring onions, lettuce, cabbage, and rice noodles.\u00a0 Broth wasn’t available, so he cooked everything in water, and we added lots of soy sauce.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ahh!\u00a0 Lunch is served and the colors are beautiful.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When bicycling through the remote mountains of Laos, it is easy to build up a hunger.\u00a0 One of the things about cycling is that you need energy – lots of it – which means you\u00a0get have to eat\u00a0 much more than normal.\u00a0 Many calories out\u00a0make us need\u00a0many calories in.  However, this is a problem when\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}