Posts Tagged ‘Pho’

Laos is renowned for its wide variety of tasty food. High on the list of favourites are barbecued chicken, spicy papaya salad and sticky rice.

A day isn’t complete without a good bowl of noodle soup, known locally as feu. But you might not be aware that the dish can be addictive for reasons other than its delicious flavour, or that it could even cause you to collapse from exhaustion.

Mixing up a bowl of pho, Lao style.

Taste of Lao food day 34 highlight with green papaya salad, pho, and yum salad.

In this episode of Eim Zap Kham Thang from Lao Star Channel, Nana shows you how to make Pork Stuffed Bitter Melon. She also made a visit to best pho restaurant in Savannakhet. If you are in the area, then make a visit to Ban Phongsavang Tai and taste a bowl of pho at Mair Khiam restaurant.

Eim Zap Kham Thang part 1

How to make Lao Beef Pho, a video recipe by Jada. I like the various ingredients that she uses in her pho stock, especially celery. For those of you that are not fond of celery, then you can leave it out.

Taste of Laos for day 17 with pho as breakfast. For dinner we had the following on the table: green aubergine chutney, boiled bamboo shoots, yum salad, and aor hoy.

Another day for more taste of Laos. For breakfast it was soy milk with galapao and dragon fruit, home grown on the other side of the Mekong River in Muang Khao. Then we went to have pho for lunch at a pho shop across the street from Champasak Hospital. Later it was grilled squid for snack and for dinner it was khao phiak or Lao noodles soup.

Day 12 for the Taste of Laos. Breakfast was mostly left-over with green banana salad and BBQ squid. For lunch it was pho and dinner consisted of khao phoon and laap duck with duck soup.

What did they put on the table for me to eat on the first day in Vientiane? Trying to decide what to eat was not that easy for me. I mostly eat fruits and soy milk for breakfast over here and then fruits, soy milk, and green tea for lunch. If not then it would be two slices of bread with sandwich spread made from vegetables. In Laos however they eat a normal breakfast before heading off to work or school.

First breakfast in Laos was khao jie pate.

Lunch was a big bowl of pho.

A relative brought a few fishes from Pakse today so for lunch aunt Kian made goy pa or minced fish salad and fish soup to go with it. For dinner it was pho and non-sweet sausage.

Pho is what is for dinner tonight. It’s plain and simple with no meat balls but delicious enough for the entire family to enjoy.

For lunch today aunt Kian made her own special pho. Later she went to pick some mushrooms at a mushroom farm and made kang het with pa or mushroom soup with fish. The only thing that is missing is a nice and spicy chili dipping sauce to go with the dinner. If you don’t have jeow to go with a meal, then you don’t have that extra kick.

During the cold moths, a bowl of fer (pho) is food for the soul. Homemade pho is even better because you can have as much in a serving as you want without having to pay the extra fee. It’s a pity that I can’t find fresh sticky rice noodles for my bowl of pho here. For now I can only look at photos of my aunt’s cooking from Pakse.

Take a tour through the capital of Laos.

I miss Pakse. I want a bowl of fer or pho right now. One more year seems so long and far away to wait….