He and Bianca's father, Mark, flew out the next day, by which point the girls were in a hospital in Udon Thani, over the border from Laos in Thailand.

It has this gorgeous udon dish.

I think most people think udon is a whole bowl of noodles.

Phattanawong Chanphon, the superintendent of the police station in Muang Udon Thani, the town in Thailand where she died.

The curly noodles are lighter than the darker buckwheat “soba,” or “udon,” which are also usually flatter or thicker.