Sticky rice

Sticky rice is Laos’ favorite staple food, accounting for about 70% of all food. The method of making glutinous rice is: soak the glutinous rice in water the night before, scoop the rice into a bamboo funnel-shaped covered container the next morning, place it on the mouth of a pottery bowl filled with water, and steam it. This kind of steamed glutinous rice has good stickiness, moderate softness and hardness, and is sweet and delicious. When eating, the cooked glutinous rice is served in a small bamboo rice basket called "Dipkao". When eating, open the lid of the rice basket, take out a small ball of glutinous rice, squeeze and pinch it with your hands, and then eat it with fish sauce, chili and other condiments. It is said that the tighter the rice ball is squeezed, the more delicious it tastes. Meals in rural areas are often irregular. A pot of glutinous rice is often steamed early in the morning and stored in a clay pot for the family to eat throughout the day.

Bamboo tube rice

Bamboo tube rice is a delicious food. People add some fish meat to soaked rice, glutinous rice or purple rice, and sometimes add coconut milk or coconut mash. After mixing, they put it into a bamboo tube, seal it with a banana leaf, and grill it on a charcoal fire. When the bamboo tube turns black, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, and a long piece of rice is stuck with a layer of bamboo film. It tastes fragrant and delicious, and has a unique flavor.

Lap

"Lap" is the transliteration of "Lap" in Lao, and it is a Lao dish with Lao national characteristics. The general method is: mince fresh fish or pork, chicken, beef, venison, etc., and mix it with various seasonings such as pepper, coriander, tomato, lemon, onion, garlic, salt, fish sauce, etc. It has a unique taste. There are three types of Lapu: raw, cooked, and half-cooked.

Pounded papaya

Pounded papaya is a delicious dish. There are two steps in making papaya. The method is to chop papaya into shreds first, then put fresh peppers, tomatoes, lemons, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce, etc. into a stone mortar, pound it into a paste with a stone pestle, and then mix it with papaya shreds to make it sour and sweet. The pounded papaya is spicy, salty and has a special taste of fish sauce.

Kaotun

Kaotun is similar to Chinese rice dumplings. Soaked rice or glutinous rice, plus pork, fish, shrimp, mushrooms and ingredients, wrap it in a rectangular shape with banana leaves, tie it with string, and cook it in water. The taste is very attractive.

Pia

A kind of soup, which is made from the undigested grass in the stomach of cows or herbivorous fish and added with ingredients.

Barbecue

Lao people like to eat barbecue food very much. There are many types of barbecue, including pork, chicken, chicken gizzards, chicken wings, fish, frogs, sausages, etc., and even some vegetables are used for barbecue. Barbeque stalls can often be seen on the streets and roadside, and they are very popular among Laotians, especially teenagers.