Laos
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Larb
Laos's national salad of minced meat: warm minced chicken, pork or fish tossed with lime, fish sauce, toasted rice powder, shallots and a storm of herbs. Ingredients: minced chicken, pork, beef or fish, lime juice, fish…
Tam Mak Hoong
Green papaya pounded to fire: Laos's version of the famous salad is darker, funkier and fierier — fermented fish sauce (padaek) is its soul. Ingredients: green papaya, cherry tomatoes, long beans, garlic, chiles (many),…
Or Lam
Luang Prabang's peppery stew: a slow wood-fired pot of buffalo or chicken, eggplant and yard-long beans, thickened with sticky rice and perfumed with sakhan pepper wood. Ingredients: chicken or buffalo, eggplants (round…
Khao Piak Sen
Laos's hand-cut noodle soup: thick, chewy home-made rice noodles in a pork or chicken broth, with tomato and herbs — breakfast comfort in Vientiane. Ingredients: rice flour and tapioca for noodles, pork or chicken broth,…
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