Kees wandered about the old town food market while I shopped for ingredients to take out to Vandara’s Kuang Si Falls Guesthouse, where we planned a magnificent cook-up together. More on that later! Meanwhile, here are some of the goodies to be found at the open air market.
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- Grilled sour pork
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- Fresh shitake mushrooms
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- Smoke-dried fish
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- Locally made sausages
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- Grilled pork and sausages
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- Savoury rice and tapioca flour cakes
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- Chickens, the preferred black leg and ordinary
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- Frogs for dinner
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- Wild bee pupae and cone – a Lao delicacy
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- Smoke-dried rat or squirrels
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- Grilled small tilapia
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- Sakharn, peeper wood, used in aw lahm
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- Grilled pork intestines and other bits
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- Snacks in Luang Prabang
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