Originally Posted by
Begbie
Set lao - ready...not finished. Usually refers to food but can also refer to a task.
It just means finished or ready. Certainly doesn't 'usually refer to food'. It has also more recently been highjacked by teen speak as referring to finishing oral sex. So if you are out and about and you say loudly to your wife 'set laeo' and a group of teenagers laugh, you will know why.