I visited Expo 2005 in Nagoya, and can thoroughly recommend attending if you can, it was a rather surreal but fascinating experience.
Amidst a lot of glitzy building-size displays by various Japanese household names and wealthy countries, there was a rather modest Asian & African pavilion for all the countries too poor to afford their own. Inside was Laos's little booth, which could have been straight out of a high school science fair, with a couple of posters and some wooden baskets. Nevertheless, they were doing a roaring trade by selling little flasks of lao lao, the local rice "whisky", for around 300 yen. Three cheers to alcohol, the universal language!
Amidst a lot of glitzy building-size displays by various Japanese household names and wealthy countries, there was a rather modest Asian & African pavilion for all the countries too poor to afford their own. Inside was Laos's little booth, which could have been straight out of a high school science fair, with a couple of posters and some wooden baskets. Nevertheless, they were doing a roaring trade by selling little flasks of lao lao, the local rice "whisky", for around 300 yen. Three cheers to alcohol, the universal language!