10000 kip is equal to 53.something Rs. Laundry is done by weight. 1kg of laundry costs 10000-20000 kip. You put your dirty clothes into a plastic bag and give to the laundry who will weigh it on a kitchen scale and that's it. Collect the same evening washed and ironed clothes.

I had a Laotian Tom yaum soup today with tamarind, galangal, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shitake mushroom besides other veggies. It was yum but the servings in Laos being very big, I could not finish. I had it with steamed rice and it was like having rasam satham with vegetables, sllllllllurrrrrrrrrp!