Lao Food In a Glance

Lao food consists of some Siamese and Vietnamese influence, hence it is not easy to learn about Lao food in a day.

It is even possible to have tried most of Lao Food in two days.

There's a lot of soup and fried noodle, fruits, baguette and salads involved.

First there are a lot of fruit shakes.




This drink of mine is banana and pineapple shake, I asked them to make it. Pretty good I'd say.




The Lao salad. Made differently by different stalls but the concept is the same.




Chicken soup noodle, one of the more stable dish. You can find this everywhere.




Chicken soup, mainly consist of raw vegetables, chicken and Maggi seasoning packet in soup.





Noodle soup. More vegetables than noodles.




Fried Rice Noodle with vegetables. This is quite yummy. But it gets dull after you eat it for what seems like weeks. Everything is practically the same. It's good still though.




One of my favourite. Mix fruit with yogurt. Easy to make, nice to eat. Laotian yogurts are mainly very sweet, so mixing it with fruits creates the perfect concoction.

Influenced heavily by the Siamese, you can also find the famous Mango sticky rice with coconut milk here in Laos.




However this stall made it rather differently and I find it too sweet to eat.




The sticky rice isn't as sticky and cooked too. I much prefer Thai sticky rice.




The only "odd" food I have been during my stay in Laos. Egg and yam custard in between pumpkin slice, pretty sweet stuff. Goes well with sticky rice, but comes off better as a dessert dish itself.

Lao(s) Noodles in Vientiane

Laotian food is not unexpected as it bears similarity to the Thai and Vietnamese food, and even a strong culture of the French.

Noodles and rice are the stable food in Laos, not to forget tons of baguette everywhere.

Located at one of the seaside stalls just right in front of my inn,




this particular dish was my first meal in Laos, which also left a distinct impression of Laotian food in me.




White vermicelli sprinkled with peanuts and stir-fried with vegetables. It might look innocent but by god it is the freakishly spiciest food I have ever tasted since… I don’t know? Since since since.. since I drank that bottle of Tobaccos sauce by accident. No I’m just kidding, not that idiotic yet but I assume it would taste about the same.

It’s nice, no doubt. That is if you can handle the spiciness of the sauce.


5000kip coconut


The other very unique that sent tickles down my tummy (like really funny dish) was the fried crispy noodle with vegetables.




They weren’t joking about the crispy part.




It’s like eating Twisties, without all the salty seasonings and it’s dipped in diluted salty sauce and vegetables.

I can’t get myself around to get used to this dish though.

I still prefer Twisties on its own.