Vientienne Market

Meeting place, selling place, eating place. Vientienne's market is all of these.
The above picture is of rice wrappers being made. The tiniest bit of rice flour mixed with water is spread on the hot plate on the right. At just the proper time, the woman will flip the batter and lift it from the plate with two long sticks as shown above. Within seconds the superthin pancake is ready to be wrapped around a mix of meat and or fresh vegetables. The womans deftness at this do-not-try-this-at-home feat was amazing.
As to the top picture, note the bits of paper under the table. I couldnt figure out the game they were playing but scoring, going on here, definitely was serious and open to debate.
The stall in the middle picture is a typical one for that part of the market, however, the jewelry, clothes, eletronics etc were in two story buildings and that had showroom type racks and lighted cases. It took us well over an hour to wander through those building and we got lost and lost each other numerous times. I cant remember why- "nothing to worry about now"- but there had been some sort of terrorist's bomb at that market last year.