Food or special snacks in Laos

Glutinous rice is the favorite staple food of Laos, accounting for about 70% of all foods. The method of glutinous rice is: soak glutinous rice in water the night before, take it out the next morning, put it in a bamboo funnel-shaped container with a lid, and steam it on a pottery bowl full of water. This glutinous rice steamed rice has good viscosity, moderate hardness, and is sweet and delicious. When eating, put the cooked glutinous rice in a small bamboo basket called Dipco. When eating, open the lid of the rice basket, grab a small ball of glutinous rice, squeeze it by hand, and then dip it in the seasoning made of fish sauce and pepper. It is said that the tighter the rice balls are packed, the more delicious they are. In rural areas, eating is irregular. In the morning, a pot of glutinous rice is often steamed and put in a clay pot for the whole family to eat.

Bamboo Rice

Bamboo rice is a delicious food. People add some fish, sometimes coconut milk or coconut milk to soaked rice, glutinous rice or purple rice, mix them, put them in bamboo tubes, seal them with banana leaves, and barbecue them on charcoal fire. When the bamboo tube turns black, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, and the strips of rice are covered with a layer of bamboo film, which is delicious and delicious.

Lapp

"Lap" is a transliteration of Lao language "LAP", which is a kind of Lai cuisine with Lao national characteristics. The general practice is to chop fresh fish or pork, chicken, beef, venison, etc. And mix it with pepper, coriander, tomato, lemon, onion, garlic, salt, fish sauce and other seasonings. , unique taste. Lapp is rare.

pawpaw

Papaya is a delicious dish. The production of papaya has two processes. The method is to chop papaya into shreds, then put fresh pepper, tomato, lemon, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and fish sauce into a stone mortar, mash it into paste, and then mix it with shredded papaya to make sour, sweet, spicy and salty papaya with special taste of fish sauce.

Coton

Coton is similar to the palm of our country. Soaked rice or glutinous rice, pork, fish, shrimp, mushrooms and ingredients are wrapped into rectangles with banana leaves, tied with strings and cooked in water. The taste is very attractive.

pia mater

Soup is made of undigested grass and ingredients in the stomach of cattle or herbivorous fish.

Outdoor barbecue

Lao people like barbecue food very much. There are many kinds of barbecues, such as pork, chicken, chicken gizzards, chicken wings, fish, frogs, sausages and so on, and even some vegetables are used for barbecues. You can often see barbecue stalls on the roadside, which are very popular with Laos, especially teenagers.