Los Angeles · since the backyard
I'm Tharathip but you can call me Thip. I'm an obsessed home cook, I am a record of Lao culture, I share the dhamma, and I put on weddings. It's all the same job.
What's happening right now
Happening now · Eat Yum Sະlut
Lao refugee eats, cooked in front of you. Dates, menus, and wherever the table turns up next.
See the dates
Four doors, one house
The one thing under my own name
The baci, the groom's procession, house blessings, the full day from the morning through the last song. Most planners can run a Lao ceremony as a checklist. Fewer can tell you why each part is there, or catch the thing quietly being left out.
Everything all three of them make, one checkout.
From the kitchen, the table and the workroom
The long version
A grandmother who cut altar flowers out of gift wrap because Virginia had no banana leaves. A mother who sold Lao food out of a car and was never once embarrassed about it. How I lost a business, came apart, and found the thing I'd been standing next to for thirty years.
