"Blazing Bowl, the only explicitly Laotian restaurant on the Eastside, opened in 2019 in the Crossroads Mall food court. The restaurant offers a sampling of Laotian dishes including sour fermented sausage, crispy fried rice with a bouquet of herbs, and hand-pulled noodles. If you don’t already know the entire Laotian food lexicon, that’s alright — the digital menu board rotates through pictures of each dish. Blazing Bowl also offers conveyor-belt hot pot: heating elements are embedded in each table, while ingredients traverse the belt, a holdover from a Japanese restaurant that was the previous tenant. An extra order of its Jiew Mak Len sauce, a spicy and aromatic tomato-based condiment, is always a good idea for now and later. The restaurant is open for on-site and takeout dining." - Brett Bankson, Eater Staff
