Anthony Bourdain from No Reservations TV show made a trip to a local market in Phonsavan, Laos. After having Lao noodles soup for breakfast, he ventured out to the Plain of Jars.
Aug
3
A Cook’s Tour in Thailand and Singapore with Anthony Bourdain. During his stopover in Bangkok, he made a visit to Bane Lao Restaurant to try some Lao dishes. He then did some shopping, tried some Thai food and then headed to Singapore for some spicy food.
A Cook’s Tour in Thailand and Singapore part 1
A Cook’s Tour in Thailand and Singapore part 2
Jul
21
Dancing shrimps is a Lao dish, known to the locals as Sao Noi Disco. It goes great with Beer Lao!
Jul
20
Want a simple and quick meal? Try this deep-frying egg recipe by Kai. Make sure you have some warm steamed rice to go with your eggs.
Jul
17
Cooking with Kai, how to make Spicy Fried Rice.
Ingredients:
1 stalk celery (sliced and diced)
One or half medium sized onion (diced)
1 medium sized carrot (diced)
1-2 jalapeño or spur chili
1-2 tbsp oil
1-2 eggs
2-3 cups cooked rice
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp black or dark soy sauce
1 green onion or parsley for garnish
Directions: Please view the entire for complete instructions.
Jul
10
A short clip from No Reservations from the Travel Channel with Anthony Bourdain showing a market in the remote area of Laos. A trip is not complete without tasting the local breakfast dish of Khao Piak or Lao noodles soup.
Jun
28
ABC News’s segment: The Hungry Hound, found a Laotian restaurant in the north side of Chicago.
Southeastern Asian flavors on Far North Side
By Steve Dolinsky
Only one restaurant in town focuses on the food from Laos, and ABC7’s Hungry Hound has tried everything on the menu.
If you like Thai food, chances are you’re going to really like the food from Laos. There are plenty of similarities– mainly coconut milk, fish sauce, young ginger and lemongrass, but there are also a few differences. As I found out on a recent trip through a tiny Laotian menu, they make the trip to uptown worthwhile.
It’s easy to find Southeast Asian dishes from Vietnam and Thailand while roaming around Uptown, but you’ve got to look a little harder to find the city’s only Laotian option, Sabai-dee, which simply means “hello.”
“Our food is less sweet and it has more spice, salty; to me it’s more flavorful,” said Kevin Wong, Sabai-Dee.
Since Wong is Chinese, he offers a small assortment of native items from a long, heated display case, but it’s the Laotian dishes that are worth the trip. A Nam salad begins with rice, flavored with shallots, lemongrass and a beaten egg; the rice is formed into balls, which are then deep-fried. Those crispy-crunchy rice balls are then broken up, along with fresh herbs and vegetables, plus chopped nuts, to form the eventual salad. Green papaya salads are commonly found in Northeastern Thailand, but in Laos, it’s a little different.
Mar
3
Exploring the many different flavours of Lao Cuisine on the third floor of the new morning market in Vientiane.