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| - Vientiane, the capital of Laos, is not in Thailand. This is a Laotian restaurant, that does serve some Thai dishes. I just want to point that out. I would be surprised if a place called "Guadalajara," or "Tijuana," or "Montreal," served the best "American food in town," though I suppose it could be the case in Madison. At any rate, this is a pretty good place for Lao food, which is admittedly similar to Vietnamese and Thai cuisine, but this place is authentic enough that you can taste the differences. The atmosphere is somewhere between corner diner, cafeteria and hole-in-the-wall, but it is reasonably clean. Our waitress was not Laotian, she was not Southeast Asian, she was in fact Clueless-American in terms of ethnicity, an odd and somewhat challenging choice, as she presented a bit of a barrier between my taste for authentic and the authentic kitchen. Could not get the food spicy hot, could not get enough rice. Asian customer here, I don't get enough rice, that costs a star. Still, all in all, the food is good, the prices very reasonable, but the place wouldn't be able to compete in the Silver City neighborhood of Milwaukee.
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