Emergency food

Sherpas are quite small.....

We usually carry Clif Bars, a kind of nutrition bar(http://www.clifbar.com/). I wouldn't exactly call them "emergency" food. We resort to them when we're too busy for lunch--we want to get across town and see a certain museum before it closes. They run about 240 kilocalories. One will take the edge off your hunger and make you less cranky when you're standing on the street corner with your map trying to figure out which way to go.

On our recent two-week trip, we took 12 bars with us and came home with three.

So nice to see other people staring at Laos with the same eyes! Great country, great people, but terribly repetitive and simplistic cuisine. Here in Yunnan - which in my opinion beats Laos hands down on rice noodle variety and taste - I usually did the peanut or cashew stash (cashews are far pricier and also hard to find fresh in small places, though). However, distances here between towns are far smaller so not carrying food is generally fine. I carried baguette and cheese, tomatoes and a knife in France, nothing in Romania, and nothing in Taiwan.

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