Lao cuisine is an important component of Southeast Asian cuisine and has an important position. It's worth knowing.

First of all, the geographical location determines the characteristics of Laos' food: as the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia and a neighbor of China, its staple food is similar to that of China, and all of them are rice and rice products-glutinous rice, coconut milk rice, chicken rice, rice noodles and so on. Therefore, rice-based powder food or grain food is its main food product.

glutinous rice is the favorite staple food of Laos. Almost every meal they have is glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is deeply rooted in their culture. They are called "Luk Khao

Niaow" or "children of glutinous rice". Laos is very particular about the production of glutinous rice. Generally, glutinous rice is soaked in water the night before, and the water for soaking glutinous rice should not be too little, at least about 2 cm more. Wait until the next morning, then pick up the glutinous rice and put it in a funnel-shaped "bamboo tube" with a cover. Then, put the bamboo tube on the mouth of a pottery bowl filled with a certain amount of water, and then steam it slowly with fire for a certain period of time. The glutinous rice made in this way is full of glutinous rice, full of particles, sweet and delicious. Lao people usually put cooked glutinous rice in a small bamboo basket called Dipukou. When it's time to eat, open the lid of the bamboo rice basket, grab a small ball of glutinous rice, squeeze it with your hands, and then dip it in their special natural seasoning to eat. It is said that the tighter the rice ball is squeezed, the more delicious it tastes.

In Laos, glutinous rice is simply used as a staple food, and they also make some glutinous rice products. Using glutinous rice as the main material to make bamboo tube rice, put the washed and soaked glutinous rice into a bamboo tube, add some fish, sometimes coconut milk or coconut paste, mix and put it into a bamboo tube, seal it with banana leaves, and bake it with low fire until it is cooked. You can split the bamboo tube and eat it directly. You can also dig the bamboo tube in advance and cover it until it is cooked. Dry glutinous rice and make it into glutinous rice cake; There are all kinds of handmade glutinous rice sweet and salty snacks.

Although the methods of making glutinous rice or other glutinous rice products are very common in Southeast Asia, and there are many similarities with China, the service rice food made of local ingredients, local rice and local cooking skills is worth tasting, and Laos has also injected a beautiful landscape into Southeast Asian food culture.