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Laos Top Travel Street Food Guide - Duration: 14:09.

If you're into good food and cheap beer,

Laos is the destination for you.

Right now we are in Vientiane in Laos, and

we have an interesting afternoon planned.

Today's our day off.

We've been filming for our new travel show,

which premieres on Tastemade YouTube TV channel this fall,

and we're going to go explore the capital of Vientiane.

So we've been here for the last couple of days.

We've been on set.

We pretty much sweated out every single article of clothing that we have. It's humid.

So it's really hot and humid here, and we need to do some laundry.

That's first on our to-do list, but we're also going to try to do something

that's a really a specialty from here, getting a custom-made tailored suit.

That's because Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam used to be what was called French Indochina,

and the French brought the European tailoring to this part of the world,

and it's really affordable.

You can get custom-made suit for under $100

So we're going to do laundry.

We're going to get some street food, probably get a massage

because those are pretty cheap here, as well. Five dollars.

And try to get a custom suit. So let's go.

We're at the tailor. It's called Bin Tailor.

Hopefully, they actually do custom suits here.

This might just be like a menswear store.

The first place that we were recommended, not actually a tailor, so one strike.

That was not a wild goose chase.

This is the promised land. We're here.

Nobody in here actually speaks English, and we don't speak any Laos;

we're using Google Translate,

downloaded the app; you load the language.

Hopefully this works.

The guy has called his boss.

Marko's on the phone with him

explaining that we have less than 24 hours to get these suits made,

so fingers crossed.

I think that we might have to go to a different shop.

The prices depend on the materials so you can't just ask them for a quote because everything's different quality.

You can just see right here. They're all different prices,

and then you pay for the labor on top of that.

I mean the main question is whether we can get it done in 24 hours

because we leave tomorrow night at midnight.

Two useful phrases in Lao sabaai-dii, which is hello and

traditionally you greet people by clasping your hands together and doing a little prayer.

Then the next one is khop jai, which means thank you or khop jai lai lai, which is thank you very much

Wait a second guys. We just got led back to the first place

But the guy on the phone said he can do custom suits here.

Maybe the guy just was upstairs and wasn't there, but we'll see.

if you've watched this vlog long enough, you know

that occasionally we get sucked into some Marko wild goose chases.

This could be one of them.

I hate to say I told you so,

but I told you so.

Okay. Can we just do our laundry, get a massage, get a beer, eat some street food?

All right, well we have accomplished one thing on our to-do list, which is the laundry.

Granted, it's the easiest thing to do.

Getting a tailored suit in 24 hours is difficult.

So we might try this again when we're in Hong Kong.

It's also very famous place for tailoring.

But now the afternoon is open. It's raining like crazy.

We're here during Typhoon Maria.

So there's a lot of water being dumped in the Pacific.

One thing that I've noticed here is that in Laos,

often times your beer is served with ice.

Laos is not a very developed country,

so there's not a lot of refrigeration.

I think that's why they serve the beer with ice,

but the really cool thing here

Is that in Laos when you get a beer the person who buys the beer pours the beer himself, first

and then the rough translation is, " To me." I got this. It's very funny.

It might seem kind of strange to a westerner because we are usually, " To you," and we bought you a beer.

It's our gift

But here it's like I bought it, so cheers to me first,

and then you pour the beer into one cup and pass the cup

around until the whole bottle's done and then open the second bottle.

So quick introduction.... our friends joining us in today's vlog are:

Nathan from the previous Monaco vlog -assistant camera op, and Katie, the producer.

I love it here. This is my favorite place we've been here on the show, without a doubt.

The people here are fantastic- super nice.

We had from two separate stores walk us over to

the laundromat and translate for us.

Who else is going to do that? Where else?

They're very friendly. They know that we're just lost.

We're totally lost here. Lost in Laos.

And everyone here is really funny.

I don't know how many times people will just be like

all the women are just giggling at us all the time.

We walk in and we're trying to vlog and get suits

and using Google Translate to try to say what we want and there's (giggle)

They just take us and lead us to the next place.

It's a little adventure.

For me definitely, the best part about Laos is the food.

It's very unique; it's definitely different.

There's a little bit of overlap with Thai food, a little bit of overlap with Vietnamese food.

But it's done in a very special way, in a very Laotian way.

I am in the kitchen now and

I think we should just get... let's get in there and see what it's like,

see what it smells like, see what it looks like,

see what it tastes like.

Alright, moment of truth.. some quick little roadside noodles

I feel that so many people come to Southeast Asia, and they skip this country.

I'd say probably not a good call.

There's so much on offer here,

and it really is not that touristy, which is great.

We're at the trip the dragon massage. Five dollars for one hour of massage. Let's do it.

He says his shop is famous for the foot massage.

So I think we're going to start with a foot massage

and then maybe get a shoulder massage or something like that.

This is a guy rubbing his giant belly. Is this not amazing? Here's the belly button.

It's actually just you rubbing his giant Buddha belly.

My favorite part is his hands. Look at his tiny hands.

Okay, we're going to check back in with you in an hour.

Both of us together was fourteen dollars and fourteen cents,

and that was a generous use of the exchange rate.

Very, very affordable and that lady's elbow worked me.

I feel so good.

She was putting her knees into the back of my hamstrings and it hurt so good,

but I feel amazing right now.

It's all about pressure points and stretching and acupressure,

as you can see on this diagram here. Here you can see.

This is the stomach. That's the liver. It's crazy. It's good. It's great deal. I think we should go eat more drink more.

We have made our way to a little night market to grab some food,

and there's quite the array of delicacies on offer.

Just behind me here is pretty much every single kabob imaginable: chicken feet,

organs, an entire skewered little chicken with the head still on.

Wow, look at that.

That's like a whole butchered pig right here. Look at that.

That is the tail of the pig right there.

There's the snout, too.

Street food in Southeast Asia is definitely the way to eat well on a budget.

There's tons of stuff here.

One of the best things is just chicken.

They take a whole breast of chicken all the way in the arm,

and they roast that and that's about

15,000 Kip which is about just under $2.

There's also fish that's roasted in salt. There's full duck.

There's an entire spatchcock chicken. There's a bunch of pork,

and the other night I found some funky stuff. I ate some

variations of larb, which is like a basically a meat salad here.

I had snail larb the other day.

Would not recommend that, but duck, beef, and pork is all really good.

Supposedly, it's not pronounced larb.

It's lab, , and here in Laos, it's actually called goy.

Yes, so that's a dish that a lot of people associated with Thai food,

but actually does come from here in Laos.

It's really good though. You can easily spend about 3 bucks and have a really good meal.. 5 bucks,

you're cruising, and 10 bucks, man

you're the king of the town.

Vientiane has a lot of nightlife. Back in the 60s and 70s,

this was an R&R spot for American soldiers who were fighting in the Vietnam War.

So they were allowed clubs that were built up then.

The country became communist since 1975,

and they wiped out most of the clubs.

But these days, there's still quite a bit of nightlife.

Even though we're at that street food market,

we've had a couple of nibbles.

We popped inside of this little restaurant right next to it, and we're going to have a hotpot.

Thank you

Nathan with the Laos ladies! Wow.

It's the mustache dude. It's the mustache.

This guy's the full package. Yeah.

Oh we didn't get suits..

No, we didn't but, we had a great day.

More of an afternoon/ evening,

but let's not split hairs here.

It was a fun time

Vientiane was sick. Honestly,

I was here nine years ago as a budget backpacker.

I did not like the city, and in filming our episodes, I had a great time.

We discovered another side of the city that I'd never experienced before.

We will not let you know who was budget. You have to watch

the episode to find that out, but let me just say

this has transformed itself into a

very big surprise for me,

and now I would say one of my favourite cities here in Asia.

I have never been to Laos, never been to Vientiane, and

I would have to say that

what I really loved about it is that it has all of the best things about Southeast Asia,

and it's lacking so many of the drawbacks of Southeast Asia.

And one of those being over tourism.

Yeah. Like you go to Thailand

or you go to Bali and those are great places or beautiful places,

but there is the downside of tourism

being too many people and too much tourism that it actually changes the place

that everybody wants to visit because it's so cool.

And that I feel like is not happening here. Laos is incredible.

The people are super friendly. The food is incredible. It's really affordable, and

we would just like to encourage you on your next trip to Southeast Asia to stop through here.

Stop in Lao, experience the culture, experience the food, and enjoy yourself.

On that note, we're going to go to bed. We're tired and we're going to Okinawa

tomorrow to film the next episode of this show.

So if you enjoyed the video, you know what to do:

give it a big thumbs- up, share with your friends,

subscribe and turn on notifications, if you haven't already, and

make sure to check out the show when it goes live in September of

2018 on Tastemade's channel on YouTube TV.

And in the meantime stay curious keep exploring.

We'll see you guys on the road. Peace

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Get Started with Your Italian Family History Research – "footnotes" guest Margaret Fortier, CG® - Duration: 22:20.

Welcome back to Genealogy TV and this is another footnotes episode. I call them

footnotes because it's footnotes where the real sources are. Today's real

source is Margaret Fortier, she is certified from the Board of

Certification for Genealogists and as a member of the APG, which is the

Association for Professional Genealogists. She's an expert in several

areas such as French Canadian and Portuguese ancestry as well as

Immigration and Naturalization, but today we're going to talk about one of her

favorite subjects for which she is also an expert in and that is how to get

started with your Italian research. We're gonna jump into that interview in just a

few moments but before we do, I'd like to remind you to subscribe to Genealogy TV

on the YouTube channel and ring the bell so that you get notified of every new

episode I upload. And now on to our interview with Margaret Fortier. I'm so

glad you're here because I know nothing about Italian genealogy. I don't have any

Italian that I know of in my tell us tell us where if we're just discovering

that we have it Italy in our background. where do we start? Well you start here in

the United States that's your basic

workflow for any immigrant because you want to find out as much as possible

about them here before you jump the pond and the reason for that is because Italy

has no none zilch nada no national databases mm-hmm so if you do not know

the town you can't really look over there so you want to mine the records in

the United States to get as close to the town as possible before you look in any

Italian records so they don't have any national

archives online. Oh boy oh they have archives but they are by province and a

province has many many many towns and there isn't like a provincial index.

You have to know you have to know the town. Okay that sounds very familiar with

a lot of jumping the pond kind of research we avoid and for Ireland I know

even for myself I have Danish ancestry you kind of have to figure out the towns

here and we can do that through a lot of different records here in the United

States once they emigrated here somewhere in

those records it's going to say where they're from beyond just the country so

well that's good to know. All right so if we know this say we know the town of the

province...Province is like a County right? District maybe? Yes yeah. Okay and so once

we know that then what do we do? Well if you know the town mm-hmm

Then there are several websites you can go to look for the Italian vital records.

Family Search has a number of them and that's good because they're free. mm-hmm

Ancestry has some of them, and there's a wonderful site of the Italian provincial

archives called Antenati, which currently has about a little more than

half of the ninety-five archives online so you can't go to that site and it

actually has an English version so you don't have to... all right... the Italian and

...put that link in the show notes too for people watching... and the thing there that's a

little bit difficult is it it will tell you well here are births for these years

and then you go into a folder and you have the year and you kind of have to go

page by page. Sometimes there's an index right not but if you but if you

no the year within a year or two if you can find it. The the more difficult thing

is figuring out the handwriting. Yes I am familiar with that from my Danish

ancestry. And here's a tip so on Facebook I managed to find friends in Denmark

when I was doing Danish research so I imagine you could do the same thing... that

would translate for me. So I'd say hey I don't understand this little loop in the

handwriting can you tell me what that is? And they would write back and tell me so

I've met cousins that way actually using DNA research to that our descendants you

know we have common ancestor so there in Denmark so if you're fortunate enough to

have or discovered cousins in Italy I would imagine you could do the same

thing. Yeah there's actually a Facebook group called genealogy translation and

people go in and just post you know a snippet or a record or something like

that and there's guarantee be guaranteed to be someone who can translate it for

you. Well that's that's a new tip for me too because I had heard that you know

one of the things that I've discovered beyond just the normal Google Translate

which is on Chrome, is the Google app have you seen that, the Translate app? So

if you're traveling Italy right and you have the Google Translate app on your

phone you can hold it up to a sign a road sign or you can in it translates

you'd like just immediately. My husband showed me that yeah that's

pretty nice. Well alright so what's next for us? If we are now... tell me again the

name of that website? Antenati. So I'm imagining that not

everything is online. No, no. If we are fortunate enough to travel to Italy

where would we go, obviously... You go to the town hall for the vital records

mm-hmm and they would probably have them. You can also go to the Catholic Church

in the community for the baptism and marriage records. You can go to the

provincial archives for the military records because every male in Italy

after born about after about 1860 or so... right... was registered at birth for the

military draft for when he was 18 so they didn't have any of this show up

when you're 18 they had you from birth and if you are if you weren't there like

you had emigrated because many many young men emigrated at that time they

would have a notation emigrating we've got to the United States you would have

the provincial archives for that kind of records and if you wanted to go further

there are some areas that have censuses and other kinds of things but that's a

little more advanced you know if you if you get the birth marriage and death

records that gets you started because like all of the most of the European

records it will give you the parents the mother's maiden name and then you can go

back. I think of them like Russian nesting dolls you may find one record

you do it and then there is oh there's more and then you undo that you can keep

going back. Well that's that's what you want yes right... yes... that's awesome. Yeah.

Is there any nuances with the family clusters the family groups? I imagine you

know back in the day like many of the countries lots of family groups live

together in small quarters or you know farming villages where there's you know

aunts and uncles and cousins all living in the same place? Actually many of the

Italians from a certain town all moved to a certain area in the United States.

In fact there are some u.s. towns that can trace directly to the Italian town

because so many of the people went there. Because don't forget it was a huge huge

emigration you know I mean and... What time period would you say that

the biggest part of that immigration was happening? 1900 to 1924 because the

immigration act in 1924 greatly reduced the number who could come over. Okay so I

know from some of my immigration classes that there was a push or a pull. Either

people were leaving the country for a reason or they were returning or you

know they were they were seeking something better...

What do you think the case is with Italy and the migration no I don't know the history

very well... so admittedly I'm naive. There there are so many reasons I mean there

was the poverty semi-starvation there was there was no public education no

required mandatory public education in Italy until 1911.

Well if kids got to the age of 8 they went to work in the fields were lots of

natural disasters earthquakes there was a tsunami and Sicily that followed an

earthquake that wiped out like 250,000 people in the early 1900s. Wow

be enough yeah there were cholera epidemics typhoid because in southern

Italy you've had long hot dry summers followed by wet winters just the perfect

conditions for mosquitos to you know transmit these and then there was just

the the structure which was really practically a feudal structure where you

couldn't get ahead you know the land owner owned everything and if you were a

peasant you had your little home and you walked to your fields it would could be

like an hour away and then you walked home for lunch

and they know back and you know it was just there was no your lunch with you

know to the field right and then the military draft you know when you were 18

and from 18 to 21 you could be conscripted for up to three years and in

the nineteen hundred's Italy was very active

in Ethiopia and other areas so you could be sent far away for many years you know

so I think a lot of people just said you know this is not going to get any better

and so let's take a chance and go. Okay so all right so let's pretend for a

moment that we know somebody is immigrating to the United States where

would you suggest they go to find those travel records and/or the immigration

naturalization records? Well for the passenger list you can look on ancestry

and I believe family search. What I would recommend is actually using Steve

Morse's site he hasn't won a link for that too he has a one step website that's

kind of like a front end to the other ones that makes it allows you to search

more broadly so you can for example search by the place they came from

mm-hmm not something that you can normally search for an ancestry or

whatever and this is where you have to be really flexible with your spelling

some of the listings you know they didn't get it right or they you know

part of those last names blotted out or whatever right not to look for the

passenger manifests and don't assume that they came in through New York or

they came in through Boston unless you know for certain just do a very broad

search. Okay all right good to know good to know. And then when you get the record

if you're lucky enough they came late enough that the manifest will tell you

who they left in Italy mm-hmm who they're going to in the United States

and you always want to take those names and find out about them because the

person that they're coming to in the United States

they had to have come over at some point and you want to find their record and

sometimes it will say it's a friend but if you go and research it you actually

find out it's a cousin or something. Part of that chain migration yeah you know

that's I'm constantly talking about almost in every video it seems lately

about you know the concept of cluster genealogy or Elizabeth Shown Mills FAN

research. Yeah so yeah so that's a good tip that's another set of rocks that we

need to be turning over as far as doing our cluster genealogy. Do you want to

jump into these slides and take a look at what you sent over. You see that? Yes I

do this is my great-great-grandfather who was born in 1852 and I'm just

thrilled that I have a picture I know I know he was I think he was about 70 he

was coming from Buenos Aires Argentina to New York

that's this immigration card and the reason I say on the slide that my

ancestor was not Italian is because when he was born

there was no Italy it was just a collection of states Italy wasn't

unified completely until 1870 so he would have said he was from Avellino

which you can see over there in the right with the red star which was in the

Campania region he would have said he was Avellinese. He wouldn't have

said he was Italian. The Italians became Italian when they

came over to the United States really. Well isn't that interesting I who knew?

Yeah. Wow. Well still this document right here is just... I know.. You were probably

doing a dance around the house when you found that one. Yes and it was so

interesting because it was the second wife of his grandnephew who had kept all

this stuff and gave it to me at a family reunion about 10 years ago because

she she knew it was important and she just wanted to give it to the family

history person in the family and there I was and I was just thrilled. That is just...

that's... well the photograph just is... right now is blessing for sure

alright I'm gonna move on the next slide here tell us about what we... I think I've

got that centered up pretty well. Yes. The naming patterns in Italy there was a

very strong naming pattern as it came as they came to the United States it was

followed less and less but this is why your grandfather has five cousins named

Vincenzo because then Jen's oh and Maria get

married and they have three sons Antonio Pietro and Luigi. So Antonio has two

daughters first and he names the first daughter Maria after his mother.

The first daughters always named after the father's mother. Then he has a son

who he names after his father Pietro gets married he has a son he names them

after his father. Luigi gets married he has a girl names her Maria and then he

has a son names him Vincenzo. So now you have three Vincenzo's born in the space

of six years, with the same surname, in the same town This is why you have to be

really careful you have the right Vincenzo and he could have more sons who

could have more sons this is just three. So it's important to know and understand

this it's not always followed but it is followed more often than not. Wow. All

right very very good to know all right so anything else on this slide

the only other thing is that in the Italian naming pattern you never named a

child after a parent unless the parent had died. So a child could be named after

the parent posthumously if the mother died

child words of the father had died before the birth, and that's the only

only... They had the same ten or twelve names running around all the time. Yes but

they're not not as bad as the Irish names were I think they took four names

and just recycled them forever. Right Wow. Alright let's see what it was there

anything new that you didn't discuss on this? This is just the the pattern that

the first son after the father's father, the second son the mother's father, the

first daughter the father's mother, and the second daughter the mother's mother.

Excellent alright so the last slide that you have here I can't quite go ahead.

This is a picture of the pasta eaters in Naples in the early 1900s and think of

these as like the the food trucks we have today where they would have vendors

set up and you were well-off you had a plate of pasta with sauce and maybe a

little meekness sauce you know you had to be pretty well-off for that okay look

quite so well-off you had a plate of pasta maybe with a little oil in it and

if you were poor and this was all you could afford you had the pasta water the

water the water the pasta had been boiled in that had some starch in it and

that's what you had and to me that illustrates the the poverty better than

all the stats in the world Wow Very good story . Anything else we need to

talk about? I would just recommend if somebody really wants to explore the

Italian genealogy a book that came out last year by Melanie Holtz, The Family

Tree Italian Genealogy Guide, which is very useful there really hasn't been a

good guide for U.S. research into Italian ancestry and its

Melanie does exclusively Italian research she

travels there and it's it's a wonderful resource. Well that is a great tip I will

put a link for that in the show notes - are you speaking anywhere soon? Yes

actually I'm speaking at the at the end of January at the Merrimack Valley

Chapter of the messages Society genealogists in Georgetown mass on

Andiamo Finding your Italian Family. Awesome well

I know that you are experienced in other areas as well so hopefully we'll get you

back on to talk about some of your other other areas you want to tell us about

those real quick? Yes I do French-Canadian, I speak speak read write

French I also do some Portuguese American and because I'm in Boston I do

Irish because they're here. Well if anybody wants to find you how do they go

about finding you? My profile is on the APG the Association of Professional

Genealogists website and I'm on Linkedin and Facebook and I assume I can give you the

link for my email. Absolutely, I can put all of those links on the show notes if

you wish I can certainly do that. And I appreciate you taking the time right

after the holidays here to to talk to everybody about doing their Italian

research. Thank you so much...Thank you so much. Well that was great fun. I know I learned a

few new tips along the way. As always look in the show notes for the links

about the things that we discussed in that video. Be sure to sign up for the

Genealogy TV newsletter... Links for that are also in the show notes. If you found

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You're a pig!Furious girlfriend catches new boyfriend trying to cheat on her - Duration: 10:48.

You're a pig!Furious girlfriend catches new boyfriend trying to cheat on her with fitness instructor

A woman whose ex-partner was filmed falling for the charms of a 'cougar' was left furious when her new boyfriend also seemed willing to cheat on her, by arranging a date with a fitness instructor - and again it was all caught on camera.

The unnamed girlfriend had moved to Mexico City with her new partner and decided to test his loyalty via the YouTube channel To Catch A Cheater - just as she had done with her former beau.

Convinced her boyfriend will 'do good', she watches on a monitor as he is seen in a gym where he is working out with a trainer, known only as Andrea.

Overweight, and wearing red shorts and top, he lifts some light weights and does a few stretches while slender Andrea bends over in front of him. Instructing him to 'go down' while he does some squats, she feels his thigh.

'You want to work out muscle? Can you feel it?', she says, before slapping his bottom. They then engage in small talk - him asking about bars and complimenting her on her physique; her being overly tactile in response.

At one point, Andrea bends over and beckons him to stand closer behind her - while his distraught girlfriend is seen in the studio looking aghast.

Towards the end of the clip, the trainer asks: 'Can I get your phone number?' - to which he replies, 'Maybe you can get it. She then suggests a beer or coffee, and he replies, 'Yeah, why not?'.

When Andrea says, 'But you don't have a girlfriend right?', he responds ,'No', whereupon his girlfriend rolls her eyes. There then follows an innuendo-laden conversation between the two about 'meat'.

Cue the break-up phone call from one very angry partner. After he denies everything, she screams down the line: 'You are a son of a b***h!'.

'Shut up! You're a liar! You're a pig! Pig!. It is not clear whether the episode is genuine.