For today’s meals we have seaweed crackers for breakfast and no photos for lunch. For dinner there are pork stir fry with green beans and pumpkin soup. People in Lao tend to have soup for dinner to wash down the sticky rice. There is…

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For this particular dinner, they are having Beef Laap and soup with various vegetables. My two aunts are afraid to eat raw laap so they cooked the laap after it has been fully prepared.
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I decided to start a food blog of what my two aunts in Vientiane are eating these days. For this dinner, they were having Pon Pa with steamed vegetables. There are six people living in this house and having a couple of bowls of Pon Pa and…

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Pastry Chef Akiyama and I have been working on our new Desserts Menu over the past week.
Equal importance is placed on our Desserts Menu, as all courses of a dinner are significant as each other.
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This week we made some Banh Xeo, also known as Vietnamese Crepes.

Filled with a mixture of Pork and Ear Mushrooms, and served with a little Sweet Chilli Sauce, these went down really well. The Banh Xeo were cut in to 5cm discs, making them a nice sized Amuse Bouche.
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How to make green mango salad by Manivan Larprom.
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A dinner at my aunt’s house in Vientiane with fried noodles or khua mie and nam jeem (fried noodles sauce). I know most people in Laos would eat this dish with sticky rice and it’s considered by many to be a good meal with…

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A few weeks ago I bought a package of sour pork sausage, made in France and exported to the Netherlands. It was the next best thing to homemade ones that you would normally find at a market in Laos. I then made a batch of aubergine chutney…

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These small Amuse Bouche bowls are filled with Junior´s “Beetroot and Garlic Purée which sits on a Tamarind Jelly with Cod Flakes and Orange Segment”.

Beetroots are grown on site and have a lovely colour. Ours tend to be a little sweet, so we decided to add some Garlic and a small amount of cream. The [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Beetroot and Garlic Purée”, url: “http://laocook.com/2008/05/04/beetroot-and-garlic-puree/” });

The last set of photos from the Lao Food Festival in Vientiane 2008, showing various dishes and snacks for visitors to the festival to choose from.

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