Sweet food, spicy food

Tong, our horny 27 year old guide, spent most of lunch talking about discotheques, how he was a monk for a few years because he had a hard breakup, and how obsessed he is with women. This is how sweet food, spicy food originated.... it's amazing what sort of euphemisms for sexy time that you hear of abroad. So the story is, a native Laotian culture has this practice of putting young couples in a hut for a period of time, a trial period. Here, they can decide whether or not the other person's food is too sweet or too spicy. If incompatible, they separate, if not, they continue to make food together.

Here are some pics of Tong, who was generally an agreeable person but personally quite annoying.

Tong trying to arm wrestle Lucas. He could only win by cheating, and once at that. 

Pretending to drown. 

Tong's sexy face, as he's showing us how he dances at the disco - from hanging off the back of our tuktuk