On a summer evening off, its time to enjoy a BBQ in the garden. We invited a special friend along for dinner.

Along with the Sucking Pig, other dishes were prepared for the grills.

A BBQ wouldn’t be the same without “Ping Gai”, the lovable Laotian Grilled Chicken.
Most of the herbs that we used in [...]

Aunt Phone made laap moo or Lao minced pork salad for dinner tonight. I hardly eat pork but this would be a meal that I will not say no too. It just needs a good vegetable soup to go with and jeow maak phet naturally for the extra kick. Of…

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Happy Friday everyone. Here are a few delicious recipes from Dola Restaurant for you to keep busy in the kitchen: Kai Dola or Chicken Dola, Poo Pad Pong Kali or Curry Pad Crab, and Pa Kor Loy Suan, Fish Swimming in the Garden. The…

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Pho is what is for dinner tonight. It’s plain and simple with no meat balls but delicious enough for the entire family to enjoy.

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Aunt Kian often visits Khua Din Market in Vientiane in the early hours in the morning. You can pretty much start off your day here with what to eat for breakfast or lunch. Khua Din Market is across the street from Talat Sao or Morning…

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Dinner in Vientiane tonight is stir fried green beans with onion and pork as the main dish with jeow maak phet or spicy dipping sauce to dip the warm sticky rices for the completion of the meal.

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We call them “Matchstick Mushrooms”, but they also go by the name of Golden Enoki.

When most of us think about Enoki, we picture the White variety with long stems. Golden Enoki are much shorter and grow in cylindrical clusters. These have a more nutty flavour than their cousins, and can also be used in Soups [...]

What are we eating in Vientiane today? For lunch it was deep fried fish and tum maak thua or spicy green beans salad.

For dinner it was mok pa or steamed fish, tum maak dteng or spicy cucumber salad and pin kai or Lao BBQ chicken. I…

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Three recipes from Bounyan Boat Restaurant, which is located in Tha Gnon, about 50 meters from the Tha Gnon bridge on the right side. We drove by this place last year when we went to my aunt’s fish farm not too far from the…

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Three dinners in Vientiane. The first is fish minced salad and fish soup. Second dinner is pork soup with sqush. Third dinner is banana stem soup with pork. The banana stem pith is quite delicious in soup. I have eaten pickled banana stem…

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