Today, we’re going to examine a possible cocktail you can try, Lao-Lao Coffee, which isn’t really anything more than an Irish Coffee done Southeast Asian Style. However, at the moment it’s extremely uncommon to get a really good cup with top-of-the-line ingredients in it. You could just make a plain Lao Coffee and just pour Lao coffee into a regular Irish Coffee. A plain Lao Coffee is going to be pretty easy outside of Laos if you can get a bag of Lao coffee. But that’s being lazy. Let’s kick it up a notch and look at what would happen if we used Lao-Lao. The Khmu drink a variation called Lao-Hai: Usually drunk neat, without any flourishes, this traditional Lao rice whisky is increasingly being used in a cocktail named the Pygmy Slow Lorange (a play on the local animal, the Pygmy Slow Loris) which nearly went extinct during the war from all of the bombing, shelling, agent orange, and other hazards of war. No Pygmy Slow Lorii are harmed in the preparation of a Pygmy Slow Lorange. Whew. On the other hand, some pots of Lao-Lao are infused with honey or …