Alana also preferred local food, and hunted down the "pintos" and chopsticks. Chiang Khong had a kitchenware store with many sizes of these lunch containers (also used in India where they are known as tiffins).
Alana told the story of her Tshirt (Tooker Gomberg for Mayor of Toronto, with a vine growing up the CN Tower) which Umesh summarized as "Vote for a dead guy".