So one of the servers here, Nok, from the north, tried the gazpacho as she was running in and out of the kitchen. She nodded in approval. She speaks very little english- just enough to take menu orders. And I was trying to explain that it was from Spain. "Spain?" "Espana?" Nope. "Xi ban ya?" Not even mandarin? No, no.
Later, I asked A how to say "Spain" in Lao.
"Spain."
Oh.
I said, then how come Nok didn't understand.
A looked at me, as if I should know better by now.
"TS... she doesn't have a lot of education." Nok is 20-something.
Ope. I felt sheepish.
"For her, yah, maybe China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand. The rest... just falangi."
Made sense.
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