Lao cuisine

The Lao cuisine is the national cuisine of Laos. She is influenced by the Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, in the capital Vientiane also by French cuisine. There are various regional cuisines.

Staple food in Laos sticky rice and fish from the Mekong River. Rice is eaten at every meal of the day.

As a national court applies Laap (also written Larb ), a salad of marinated meat and / or fish and vegetables, herbs and spices. Meat and fish can thereby be cooked or raw. It is also served on festive occasions and weddings. Play an important role galangal and fish sauce as a condiment, as well as garlic, chilli, shallots, lemongrass, tamarind, kaffir lime leaves, coriander, Thai basil, mint and dill.

Breakfast is often sticky rice with dried beef in the sun (see pemmican ) served with salt and sugar. Common side dishes are also jao mak len, a paste of chili and fish, or Padek, pickled salted and fermented fish that is a staple food, fresh mangoes, grated coconut, tamarind and fried eggs. For a main meal except rice are usually a soup, vegetables and fish or meat as well as a sharp spicy sauce. Desserts are often made ​​with coconut milk.

Every household in Laos has a mortar, a wok and a rice cooker, which consists of a bamboo basket and a high metal pan that is filled with water.

Typical food

  • Laap ( Larb )
  • Tam Mak Hung, green papaya salad
  • Ping Sin, Grilled Beef
  • Pin Kai, grilled chicken
  • Ua No Mai, bamboo -filled pods
  • Keng no mai Sai Yanang, a soup made ​​of bamboo pods
  • Or Nok Kho Lam, boiled quail
  • Keng Tom Yum Pa Kho, a fish soup with lemongrass
  • Sat tone Sin Ngua, beef dish
  • Or Lam Sin Kuay, dish of young water buffalo
  • Sai Ua Moo, pork sausage
  • Khao Poon Nam PhiK, rice with chili sauce
  • Yum Kai Tom, cooked chicken
  • Pon Pa Leum, a fish dish

Drinks

While eating almost only water is drunk in Laos. Widely used is lemongrass. Alcoholic drinks such as the Lao beer and spirits Beerlao Hai Lao and Lao Lao bidding only after a meal at the " palate cleansing " to. Lao Hai is a Sake similar liquor, which is ladled out earthenware jars and is usually drunk with a straw. Lao Lao ( "white liquor " ) is a type of whiskey from glutinous rice.

In addition, a coffee called Paksong is grown, which is also partly exported. He is traditionally drunk from a glass with some condensed milk and a dash of green tea.

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