In the Twin Cities, Laotian food is cheap and easy to find - we have a huge southeast Asian community (the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam, with ma

In the Twin Cities, Laotian food is cheap and easy to find - we have a huge southeast Asian community (the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam, with many Hmong). Around here, there's nothing particularly "exotic" about Vietnamese or Thai. More specifically Laotian and Cambodian food is also easy enough to find, although they're sometimes hidden in "Vietnamese" restaurants. Larb and sticky rice? Yeah, we got that. :) Filipino, on the other hand, is almost nonexistent. We just don't have a significant community here to support it.