{"id":316486,"date":"2026-05-15T02:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:52","slug":"celebrity-cookbook-author-saeng-douangdara-shares-lao-cuisine-in-fresno-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316486\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity cookbook author Saeng Douangdara shares Lao cuisine in Fresno visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley foodies got a chance to meet with the author behind a popular cultural cookbook on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Author Saeng Douangdara visited popular Asian bisro Na Nah Thong in northeast Fresno to sign copies of his cookbook &#8220;The Lao Kitchen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The book tour is raising awareness and appetites for traditional Laotian cuisine with a modern twist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Douangdara says many of the more than 95 recipes in his book were inspired in his own home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;From learning from my mom and all the Lao aunties from around the world, I was inspired to make a cookbook that is a resource for the next generation so they will be able to cook Lao food at home or from wherever they go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Lao Kitchen Cookbook can be found in most places you get your latest reads, including Amazon, Target and Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Douangdara says his main goal for his book is to educate readers and bring people from all around the world together through tasty dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley foodies got a chance to meet with the author behind a popular cultural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[132354,112,114,113,1081],"class_list":["post-316486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-132354","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-ta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}