Laos

I was in Laos for 8 days in January. Laos cuisine, whilst similar to Thai cooking is more sutble, more fragrant and has some interesting ingredients. Here a few pix to get you started

This was the first food I ate in Laos: a spicy fish and coconut soup.
It was flavoured with galangal, dill, lettuce and other herbs. Blisteringly spicy it made my eyes weep and throat rasp; in short i loved it!

This was the Phousi market in Luang Prabang

Phousi market: you can see the wide variety of leaves/herbs they have on sale!

Yours truly at the Tamarind cookery school with my "scoff":

 

stuffed lemongrass, steamed fish and a non-meat "orlaam"