Comments on: Laos Food Bonanza http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/ Khmer food, restaurant reviews and recipes served to you from Phnom Penh by Phil Lees Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: food http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-37661 food Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:30:39 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-37661 <strong>food</strong> Buy Cheap Vigra http://psplab.csie.nctu.edu.tw/forum/index.php?showtopic=6350 food

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]]> By: somchai http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-15060 somchai Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:57:53 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-15060 I like both the Thai Lao food blog and laocook for a number of reasons. I try to look past any lapses in style and just appreciate the blogs for what they are. They are blogs by Lao people writing about Lao food. Thai Lao is a fusion of the two styles of cooking and in real life there is also a lot of cross pollination amongst the styles, heavy Chinese and Vietnamese influences also. The videos are great in that you can see what it is she is actually doing. Lao cook is obviously influenced by his work as a chef, and although many of the recipes are presented beautifully on clean plates with artful vegetables surrounding etc etc the food is often representative and to be found in many kitchens. I’ve never heard of a blog reviewing restaurants. Myself, I like Lao food but don’t like restaurants as a rule. In Laos I seldom eat at anything fancier than street food, keeps me from being let down. Indeed most Laotians don’t eat in restaurants. Having returned to the states recently I think going to Lao restaurants won’t be a problem in that there aren’t any. I’ve blogged about lao food on occasion, click on food in the section called labels on the right hand side. http://laobumpkin.blogspot.com/ The raw prawns are great. If I worried about anything it would be the liver flukes in the uncooked plah dek that’s in the tom mak kune. Sun Saap Somchai I like both the Thai Lao food blog and laocook for a number of reasons. I try to look past any lapses in style and just appreciate the blogs for what they are. They are blogs by Lao people writing about Lao food.

Thai Lao is a fusion of the two styles of cooking and in real life there is also a lot of cross pollination amongst the styles, heavy Chinese and Vietnamese influences also. The videos are great in that you can see what it is she is actually doing.

Lao cook is obviously influenced by his work as a chef, and although many of the recipes are presented beautifully on clean plates with artful vegetables surrounding etc etc the food is often representative and to be found in many kitchens.

I’ve never heard of a blog reviewing restaurants. Myself, I like Lao food but don’t like restaurants as a rule. In Laos I seldom eat at anything fancier than street food, keeps me from being let down. Indeed most Laotians don’t eat in restaurants. Having returned to the states recently I think going to Lao restaurants won’t be a problem in that there aren’t any.

I’ve blogged about lao food on occasion, click on food in the section called labels on the right hand side.
http://laobumpkin.blogspot.com/

The raw prawns are great. If I worried about anything it would be the liver flukes in the uncooked plah dek that’s in the tom mak kune.

Sun Saap

Somchai

]]> By: Sao Noi http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-6853 Sao Noi Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:03:04 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-6853 Jam-ez says...." an “authentic” recipe using uncooked prawns. As a resident of landlocked, generally dirt poor Laos I can safely say if you eat uncooked prawns here you will die. " Never had Sao Noi Disco? The prawns are raw and alive, i have eaten them, and i am not dead! Jam-ez says….” an “authentic” recipe using uncooked prawns. As a resident of landlocked, generally dirt poor Laos I can safely say if you eat uncooked prawns here you will die. ”

Never had Sao Noi Disco? The prawns are raw and alive, i have eaten them, and i am not dead!

]]> By: Phnomenon: Cambodian food, food in Cambodia » Grape-Nuts http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-6189 Phnomenon: Cambodian food, food in Cambodia » Grape-Nuts Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:01:46 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-6189 [...] Over the weekend, a friend was in town for a reciprocal visit from Laos and we did a run to Lucky Supermarket for a selection of processed Western goods unavailable in the Land of A Million Elephants. While I was perusing the specials bin, I spied a packet of Grape-Nuts. They sounded vaguely like an insult that you would throw around the playground as a child, so we deduced that they must be a good thing. They were also half the price of any other imported breakfast cereal available in Cambodge. [...] [...] Over the weekend, a friend was in town for a reciprocal visit from Laos and we did a run to Lucky Supermarket for a selection of processed Western goods unavailable in the Land of A Million Elephants. While I was perusing the specials bin, I spied a packet of Grape-Nuts. They sounded vaguely like an insult that you would throw around the playground as a child, so we deduced that they must be a good thing. They were also half the price of any other imported breakfast cereal available in Cambodge. [...]

]]> By: Jam-ez http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-3524 Jam-ez Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:12:01 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-3524 Phil, Excellent write-up on Laos. Checked out those Lao food blogs you found. They were a tad disappointing - uninspired, humourless, overly Thai influenced and lacking your commitment to street food. I struggled to get past the first's sanctimonious introduction "The reason for my blog is to preserve the authenticity of the Thai and Lao food" (yeah Toronto is definitely the best place to do that). The second lost me when it referred to "deconstructing a dish" and includes an "authentic" recipe using uncooked prawns. As a resident of landlocked, generally dirt poor Laos I can safely say if you eat uncooked prawns here you will die. The last is written with annoying tone wonderment. It also gives credence to the oxymoronic, self-serving claim of one restaurateur that his is "the only restaurant in Luang Prabang that serves authentic local food". Finally, it bizarrely and insultingly uses Mick Jagger as a barometer for culinary modernity. It is unsurprising that this reprint of a rejected article failed to find a publisher. Perhaps you will just have to become a regular visitor to Laos. Phil,

Excellent write-up on Laos. Checked out those Lao food blogs you found. They were a tad disappointing – uninspired, humourless, overly Thai influenced and lacking your commitment to street food.

I struggled to get past the first’s sanctimonious introduction “The reason for my blog is to preserve the authenticity of the Thai and Lao food” (yeah Toronto is definitely the best place to do that).

The second lost me when it referred to “deconstructing a dish” and includes an “authentic” recipe using uncooked prawns. As a resident of landlocked, generally dirt poor Laos I can safely say if you eat uncooked prawns here you will die.

The last is written with annoying tone wonderment. It also gives credence to the oxymoronic, self-serving claim of one restaurateur that his is “the only restaurant in Luang Prabang that serves authentic local food”. Finally, it bizarrely and insultingly uses Mick Jagger as a barometer for culinary modernity. It is unsurprising that this reprint of a rejected article failed to find a publisher.

Perhaps you will just have to become a regular visitor to Laos.

]]> By: Austin http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-2237 Austin Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:27:33 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-2237 Howdy, I'm unfortunately not a Lao blogger, but I do have several mentions on the food of that country at my blog here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2006/04/real-lao.html, here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2006/05/food-of-luang-prabang.html, and here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2005/12/worlds-greatest-sandwich.html, as well as elsewhere that I may have forgotten... And I hope to include more, as I find the food in Laos, especially in Luang Prabang, wonderful. Austin Howdy,

I’m unfortunately not a Lao blogger, but I do have several mentions on the food of that country at my blog here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2006/04/real-lao.html, here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2006/05/food-of-luang-prabang.html, and here http://realthai.blogspot.com/2005/12/worlds-greatest-sandwich.html, as well as elsewhere that I may have forgotten… And I hope to include more, as I find the food in Laos, especially in Luang Prabang, wonderful.

Austin

]]> By: Phil http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-2228 Phil Fri, 26 May 2006 04:22:35 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-2228 After a little bit of searching, there does seem to be a few Lao expats writing food blogs: http://thai-laos-food.blogspot.com who is logging recipes in Canada; and http://laocook.com/ which is from Spain, doing upmarket Lao food. Probably of interest to you, pieman, Lao Cook is testing <a href="http://laocook.com/2006/05/14/may-13-saki-half-a-turbo-and-a-rainbow/" rel="nofollow">che made with champagne jelly</a>, which I'm sure will be waiting for you on the streets of HCMC next time you're back. After a little bit of searching, there does seem to be a few Lao expats writing food blogs: http://thai-laos-food.blogspot.com who is logging recipes in Canada; and http://laocook.com/ which is from Spain, doing upmarket Lao food.

Probably of interest to you, pieman, Lao Cook is testing che made with champagne jelly, which I’m sure will be waiting for you on the streets of HCMC next time you’re back.

]]> By: pieman http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-2227 pieman Fri, 26 May 2006 03:56:23 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-2227 A Lao foodblog is sorely needed to complete the set, IMO. A Lao foodblog is sorely needed to complete the set, IMO.

]]> By: Lord Playboy http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-2226 Lord Playboy Thu, 25 May 2006 02:51:23 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-2226 Nicely written, as always. I have some trips to Lao coming up later in the year and I am looking forward to it now. Lord Playboy Nicely written, as always.

I have some trips to Lao coming up later in the year and I am looking forward to it now.

Lord Playboy

]]> By: Bill Tucker http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/street-food/laos-food-bonanza/#comment-2130 Bill Tucker Tue, 23 May 2006 13:37:02 +0000 http://www.phnomenon.com/?p=71#comment-2130 If you're ever back in Vientiane, I would recommend checking out the Golden Horse, on the waterfront about 1.5km south of the main strip. The food is good (seafood), but the real star is Kevin, the American owner who, according to him, went to Laos on a mission to recover remains of US soldiers, but would up marrying a Lao and staying. He's the sort of character Graham Greene would have written about. BTW, tried the coffee at the Mondulkiri Cafe yet? If you’re ever back in Vientiane, I would recommend checking out the Golden Horse, on the waterfront about 1.5km south of the main strip. The food is good (seafood), but the real star is Kevin, the American owner who, according to him, went to Laos on a mission to recover remains of US soldiers, but would up marrying a Lao and staying. He’s the sort of character Graham Greene would have written about.

BTW, tried the coffee at the Mondulkiri Cafe yet?

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