Laotian Rice “Pops” with Dipping Sauces

Grilled rice cakes are enjoyed throughout Asia—in Japan, for example, where they might be stuffed with miso or bean paste to make a popular snack called onigiri (you find this not only at yakitori parlors, but at kiosks in train stations). Or in Thailand, where khao-tung, round grilled rice cakes, come with nam prik pao, roasted sweet chile jam, dished up by sidewalk grill jockeys. Here’s the Laotian version, from a vendor in the French colonial town of Luang Prabang, w