Laos Traditional cuisine

Lao cuisine has inherited many features of the peoples inhabiting the country. Cuisines of neighboring Thailand, Cambodia, China and Vietnam have had a significant impact on the national cuisine of Laos.

Rice - the basis of local cuisine. The most common of its species are "white rice" ( "Khao-yao), fried rice (Khao PHAT" or "Khao chicken") and "sticky rice" (Khao nyau "), which is rolled into balls and drop in the sauce. Typically, rice accompanied with fish or meat dish, soup, which even in the Lao eat breakfast, as well as fresh vegetables or salad, tofu and greens. Sometimes used instead of rice noodles, both as a garnish to many dishes, as well as other dishes like fried noodles "khua, fine noodles, Niamey-nuang" or "mi", noodles with sauce haeng or soup thin noodles "Foé.

Meat on the table a little Lao. However, the local dishes of freshwater fish, poultry, duck, pork, beef or meat, water buffalo, have received due recognition. Worth trying a traditional Lao dish "legs" or "laap" of meat or fish, lime juice, garlic, rice, green onions, mint and chili, a kind of fermented sausage "som-mu, pancakes with meat and greens, rentals, nuang" , fried chicken, kai-lao ", stuffed with rice and cinnamon chicken, a salad of pork with garlic, eggplant, herbs and fish sauce" paws-mu, beef salad with greens, channam-fat, stewed cabbage quail NOC -CWC-hum-Sai kalampi "or" op-lam-yard-CWC, spicy meat in a broth, llamas, or local delicacies from the meat of snakes, deer, squirrels, civet cat or lizards. Also good with fish dishes such as "sushi-dads" - fish in coconut milk, spicy fried catfish, pa-ling-sushi "or little fried fish" sushi-pa-gnon, as well as salad of shrimp "Pla Gung .

Festive menu may include eggs, meat, poultry, beef or bushmeat. Lime juice, mint, lemon grass (lemon grass) and coriander give local dishes characteristic strong smell, and various sauces like fish "we pas" are used instead of salt. In this case, to add flavor to the dish often add hot pepper, garlic, basil, fish paste "padek, peanut butter, tamarind juice, we Makha pyak, coconut milk and other ingredients. The amount of pepper and other spices noticeably different in the same dish different ethnic groups.

But the vegetables in the local menu abound. Moreover, in the manufacture of vegetable dishes Lao use a lot of recipes, handed down a legacy of French rule, bringing to them their national color. Very good, there-mak-Hung "or" there-som "salad of fresh papaya, garlic, chili, sugar, fish sauce and lime juice (often it add shrimp or crab meat), salad with water cress, as well as Thai rice salad with raw vegetables and fermented fish sauce Cao pits. Drinks are served all kinds of cakes and baguettes, which are used as a kind of sandwich, as well as a spoon, picking up their sauce or rice.

The best way to complete the local meal - try the local fruits ( "Poppy-Mai), or desserts such as bananas in coconut milk" us-van-mak-Chiaia "or" Chiaia-namuan ", sweet rice with mango pulp" Khao-neu -Ma-Muang, fried water chestnuts, sweet rice in coconut milk, oranges in syrup, all kinds of sweet puddings, cakes made from rice flour, or a kind of jelly made from local coconut milk, coconut pulp and ice (there are all the colors of the rainbow).

The most popular beverage in the country - fruit juices, poppy-Mai-pan with a high content of fruit pulp, mixed with ice and sweetened condensed milk and fresh fruit juices, citrus-us mak-NAO, sugar cane juice "us-Custom and coconut juice "us-mak-phao. In Laos, annually produce 20 thousand tons of coffee, so it is not surprising that the consumption of coffee country is one of the leading places in Southeast Asia.

Lao drink very strong coffee kafeh-Haunia ", which usually add condensed milk and sugar. Black coffee without sugar is called "kafeh-ladies-Bow-sai-nam-tang" and use much less. Black tea is usually sold in stores and is used with condensed milk (ti-Haunia ") and the traditional green tea drink in his usual form for the region - very hot and almost no sugar. There are a huge number of varieties of green tea, each of whom has a special set of color and flavor.

Local Beer Lao "(" Bya-Lao ") is famous for a rather good taste and very cheap. Because spirits are the most popular rice wine "lao-lao" (in the sale occurs as an industrial distillation - mark "Sticky-Rice, and home production), and rice wine" lao-hai "or" Khao Kam. In many stores you can find a good selection of French wines and imported beverages.