Category Archives: Laos

Lao Food: Crickets

Leave a comment Posted by on May 5, 2018

Crickets are normally considered as food by Lao people.

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Snake and Vegetables

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Vegetables and snake at the market in Luang Prabang.

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Lao Food: Ant Eggs

Leave a comment Posted by on April 9, 2018

Ant eggs are a little sour and are eaten with chicken eggs, in fish soup, or just steamed for a snack.

Reference: What’s in the Market?, Sonesulilat Vongsouline, Big Brother Mouse 2010

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Lao Food: Stink Bugs & Cicadas

Leave a comment Posted by on April 9, 2018

Stink bugs

Stink bugs live on leaves in the longan tree and they are usually eaten fried or mashed into sauce.

Plates of stink bugs and cicadas

Cicadas can be roasted, fried, or used to make sauces.

Reference: What’s in the Market?, Sonesulilat Vongsouline, Big Brother Mouse 2010

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Lao Pottery Village

Leave a comment Posted by on November 6, 2017

Pay for the entrance fee ticket

Kiln

Kiln hole. Top view.

Finished product

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Middle Noodle

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Small noodle, big noodle, and middle noodle

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Coconut Pancakes in Banana Leaf Bowl

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Vendor selling round coconut pancakes in banana leaf bowl

Stapler is the secret tool of banana leaf bowl construction

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Side Alley Chilli Pepper Drying

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Chilli peppers drying on a rattan meal base by the side alley. Just one of those random things seen being dried outside.

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Lao Food: Butterfly Pupae 

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Vendor removing the pupa from its cocoon

I saw a couple of these in the garden of my guesthouse. Turns out that my host would buy some from the market to let them complete their metamorphosis. She feared that one day they will all be gone.

Laotians eat them deep-fried with a serving of sticky rice

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Lao Steamed Sticky Rice

Leave a comment Posted by on July 5, 2017

Steaming sticky rice in a bamboo basket that sits on an aluminum pot with water

Steamed in a basket, served in a basket

Aep khaoh – woven bamboo container for cooked sticky rice

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Elephant Dung Paper

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Fruit Combinations

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All possible combinations of fruit to make fruit shake

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Luang Prabang Letter Boxes

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Mekong river in the background

 

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Repurposed Water Gun Toys

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Lao Tuk Tuk

Leave a comment Posted by on June 19, 2017

This one looks nice with its embellishments

A closer look at the wooden embellishments

Parked tuk tuks as seen from the inside of a running tuk tuk

 

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Rooster Carrier

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He looks humiliated

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Peculiar Pineapples

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Laos Post Boxes

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Post box and Beerlao

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