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"I was particularly enamored with the pho Lao som soup at Sen Khao, the noodle stall from Thip Khao and Padaek chef Seng Luangrath: with its base of sour chicken broth, the soup is a collision of colors and ingredients — garlic chips, scallions, stewed tomatoes, chile oil, fish sauce, dried shrimp, celery, preserved cabbage, peanuts and noodles — and its power is derived from its twin poles of attraction and repulsion, life and death, sweetness and decay. You won't understand it, even after it's gone." - Gabe Hiatt