{"id":530,"date":"2010-01-22T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/530"},"modified":"2010-01-22T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:21:00","slug":"somchanh-restaurant-luang-prabang-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Somchanh Restaurant (Luang Prabang, Laos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/deadKenny.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the Lonely Planet steers you wrong, most often in the food department. Today\u2019s lunch was one of those cases. We went to a Laos restaurant on the Mekong river, described as serving \u201cthe best choice of vegetarian Laos food in town.\u201d Little did we realize how different \u201cbest choice of\u201d is from \u201cbest&quot;. While there were indeed a lot of dishes without meat, the actual food was terrible. The fried yellow noodles with vegetables were only nominally better than cup o\u2019 soup, and the \u201cpanang curry\u201d was just coconut oil, coconut milk, chicken, and salt. No one should ever advertise this disappointing bland, white sauce as curry. I was too disappointed with the curry to even snap a photo. At least the view was nice.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mekong river view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4299298622\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mekong river view\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2779\/4299298622_874638abd5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Lauren and the Mekong<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fried yellow noodles with vegetables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4299321016\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fried yellow noodles with vegetables\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4299321016_49aca7b61d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Fried yellow noodles with vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: Sometimes the Lonely Planet steers you wrong, most often in the food department. Today\u2019s lunch was one of those cases. We went to a Laos restaurant on the Mekong river, described as serving \u201cthe best choice of vegetarian Laos food in town.\u201d Little did we realize how different \u201cbest choice of\u201d is from \u201cbest&quot;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,50,52,68],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-laos","tag-luang-prabang","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}