Laotian Cuisine Thread

[Anonymous No.18066202]

Any Laotians or Thai here ?
Just made Larb for the first time, butchered it as I used spam for the meat, and carrots for the veggies. The rice powder was made from normal Japonica, not Sticky Thai rice. At least the Fish Sauce was Thai. I have to say, pretty nice Meat salad. What kind of meats can be used ? I don't have access to sour pork sausage.

[Anonymous No.18066211]

>>18066202
Usually the asian grocer has chinese sausage. Hope you made rice

[Anonymous No.18066212]

>>18066202
looks grim...

[Anonymous No.18066226]

>>18066202
You're from the ocean? What ocean?

[Anonymous No.18066230]

>>18066212
Tasted of lemon juice and Fish Sauce. Those crunchy pieces of ground up roasted rice give it an unusual texture.

[Anonymous No.18066247]

>>18066202
I am Raozian herro

[Anonymous No.18066446]

>>18066247
Are canned sardines an acceptable ingredient in Larb ? Also is Japanese Mochi rice good for making the roasted rice powder ?

[Anonymous No.18066447]

everything from that region tastes and smells like burnt garlic and fish sauce

[Anonymous No.18066485]

This is how I make laap.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qv75pz4p3nc

[Anonymous No.18066512]

>>18066202
The ocean?

[Anonymous No.18066657]

>>18066485
What is that ? Instant spiced roasted rice powder ?

[Anonymous No.18066760]

>>18066657
Laap seasoning mix. And if you speak Thai and/or Isan/Lao, the spot is fucking hilarious.
Basically, the woman, a southern Thai, asks the hawker how he makes his laap so good and spicy and he, an Isanese "Thai" (IE a Lao) tells her in Isan, which is a dialect of Thai/Lao that's notoriously difficult for southerners to understand. She asks for it to be repeated, then the lady hawker explains, she asks for it to be repeated one more time then Lobo Man interrupts and the voice over says that you can make laap at home without having to talk to "weird minorities."
And the last thing the woman says while eating her laap in the kitchen is "spicy/tasty!"
Thailand is by far the least "woke" country when it comes to TV spots.

[Anonymous No.18066763]

>>18066760
uh hello, based department?

[Anonymous No.18066784]

I really like green papaya salad. Also everything this lady makes is authentic and she is really good at demystifying everything.

https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/papaya-salad-v3/#

[Anonymous No.18066808]

>>18066784
>authentic
Then where's the mud crab paste or, better yet, the pickled whole mud crab? You start off by beating the dried prawns then the aromatics then the mud crabs and you build from there or, if you're using crab paste, you cook it with the tamarind pulp when making the dressing.

[Anonymous No.18066987]

>>18066808
You don't cook anything at all in som tum and you can use dried shrimp or fermented shrimp paste. I am 100% certain that you don't have any clue what you are talking about.
Source; the entire Laotian half of my family.

[Anonymous No.18067088]

>>18066987
It's som tam you stupid fucking larper. Also OP is trying to make laab moo, but fails.

[Anonymous No.18067092]

>>18067088
Why would anyone want to larp as a jungle Asian?

[Anonymous No.18067113]

>>18067088
Oh no, he made a 1 letter spelling error while giving out completely factual information? Must be a larp.
>>18067092
This guy makes a good point.

[Anonymous No.18067132]

>>18067113
Som tam has cooked crab in it. He's an idiot that ruins all the SEA threads in trv
Nothing he says has any value because it's all made up nonsense

[Anonymous No.18067167]

>>18067132
No.
Som Tam pla ra has crab.

[Anonymous No.18067193]

>>18066202
not Laotian so I can't cook any of that shit
but when I want my dish to have a little taste of Laos...
I open up a bottle of this bitch and
BAM!!!!!!!!!!
Vientiane street flavor in a bottle Mader fakirs!

[Anonymous No.18067215]

>>18066987
If you are Lao, why do you call papaya salad by its Thai name and not Lao? Its tam makheung. Tom makheung has pickled mud crab in it or, if using crab paste, it's cooked with the tamarind pulp to make the dressing.

>>18067132
Who's on trv? >>18066987 or >>18066808?
And the crab is raw/fermented.

>>18067167
Pla ra? More Thai words and not Lao ones? Pa ra. Not pla ra. And pa ra isn't crab, anyway. It's fermented kissingfish paste.

[Anonymous No.18067263]

>>18067215
I never said I was Laotian, I said I have a Laotian family. My dad remarried.

[Anonymous No.18067292]

>>18066202
Thai mutt here. Just use garlic and fish sauce and really you'll bludgeon your way through half of thai cooking right there. Use pork or chicken for larb ideally. You can add mint or holy basil too but I hate that shit with a burning passion.

[Anonymous No.18067296]

>>18067263
Oh. Then you couldn't fall for the trap, since it's not pa ra either. It's padehk.
But that still leaves the question why your family call things by Thai names and not Lao ones. It is weird to me for them to do that.

[Anonymous No.18067319]

>>18067296
I'm not entirely sure but I think that part of the family went to Cambodia with the vietnamese to fight the khmer rouge. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them ended up in Thailand while other parts feld to the US.

[Anonymous No.18067350]

>>18067319
Almost every Lao (and Cambodian and Vietnamese) who fled abroad went to Thailand first because Thailand gave asylum to people fleeing communism. They stayed there until they could get refugee status in a western culture, like Australia, France or the US. They still speak their native language, though, even if they pick up Thai so it is still weird for them to use Thai words for things instead of Lao ones.
Does your dad's wife cook? What type of rice does she eat?

[Anonymous No.18067381]

>>18066226
Fuck off frenchy

[Anonymous No.18067397]

>>18067350
They all love sticky rice. 3 rings is what I usually see at her house. She also uses a lot of golden mountain green label. It's quite possible that she uses Thai words because she was pretty young (probably like 12) when she came over. Most of her immediate family made it over here though, but I can't hardly understand a word they say because they don't speak much English, if any at all. I do really like getting in the kitchen with her sisters. They are the real cooks.

[Anonymous No.18067414]

>>18067397
>sticky rice
Very Lao.
Does she cook keng normai? Maybe you don't know the name. Soup with bamboo, straw mushroom and either pork or fish, thickened with sai yanang. Idk wtf sai yanang is called in English. It is a leaf (sai) that you "melt" in water and add to soup to thicken it.

[Anonymous No.18067465]

>>18067414
I think I have had that during a holiday. It's thick almost like Chinese hot and sour soup, right?
But they also make vietnamese soups like bun bo hue. They found it very amusing at how much I enjoyed the blood cubes. Also that crazy egg pancake thing with all the ground up pork.
Holidays are the best because they usually do half SAE food and half traditional American like turkey and mashed potatoes.

[Anonymous No.18067478]

>>18067465
Idk what Chinese hot and sour soup is. Was it dark green? And did you have it with dried beef?

[Anonymous No.18067485]

>>18066202
Is this cuisine Japanese or Chinese?

[Anonymous No.18067506]

>>18067478
Looking at a pic I'm almost positive I have had it but I think they put squash and pork belly in it.

[Anonymous No.18067525]

>>18067506
Yeah, a lot of people put pumpkin. You can have it with pork belly or crab sticks. There isn't that much fish in Lao cooking because landlocked but Lao people in the west got a taste for crab sticks since it's cheap so some Lao abroad will make keng normai with that or other processed fish instead of pork.
Well, enough from me. It is 4am in France.

[Anonymous No.18067531]

>>18067485


ITS LAO, LAO!! NOT CHINESE AJAPANESE ITS LAO!!

[Anonymous No.18068261]

>>18066202
if you eat Lao food wash it down with this

[Anonymous No.18068764]

>>18067381
Whatcha gonna do? Start a communist revolution?