About This Site

LookatLao Studio

This website and the entire Saigon Siblings, Monsoon, and Ba Bar brands are designed and managed by Geoffrey Smith of LookatLao Studio in Seattle. Back in the olden times (late 1990s), Geoffrey was designing and developing websites while moonlighting as a waiter at the very first Monsoon in 1999. The Banh siblings decided to hire him to design the very first Monsoon website (image below, top left), which had a total of three pages. The payment for this project was one bottle of a very rare Zind-Humbrecht Gewurztraminer. At least five different versions were to follow over the years, and this one is probably the last. These days you can find Mr. Smith riding off into the sunset…

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