Mmmmm! Yummy-looking food! And great-looking photograph! Nice touches in the wavy bowls, colorful plaid tablecloth, and down-home cutting board. Thanks for posting! Dad will be pleased. Btw, what are we looking at here? XOXOX
Beth and I actually made this food (with some help). We went to a Laos cooking class one day and prepared these three dishes.
The top dish is a traditional chicken stew. I forget what the Laos name for it was. It was very spice (we added 2 chilies). On the left is papaya salad which was also spicy. And on the right is a traditional Laos dish called lap, which is minced meat (chicken/beef/pork) with a bunch of spices (mint, coriander, chilies, etc.).
All were very good, but I think we liked the lap the best. We have also had that at several restaurants.
What a fabulous description! Thank you! And what a brilliant idea, when in a new locale, to take a cooking class and actually *make* food unique to there. That way, when you’re back home (or wherever), you know the real deal, even how to encorporate interesting spices. So cool. Sounds like you both like your food pretty spicy/hot. Do you both like about the same amount of hot? That’s handy for sharing, both at the restaurant and with leftovers brought home. I always order “mild plus,” and Dad orders medium. When we went out the other night with the Windmillers (to Siam Spicy in Novi, across–west–from Twelve Oaks, Ron got extra hot or something crazy like that. Maybe Dad gets medium for the very purpose of me not maneuvering my way into his food. Hehe. Thanks again for all the detail. XOXOX
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Comment by Peg — April 23, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
Mmmmm! Yummy-looking food! And great-looking photograph! Nice touches in the wavy bowls, colorful plaid tablecloth, and down-home cutting board. Thanks for posting! Dad will be pleased.
Btw, what are we looking at here? XOXOX
Comment by dadman — April 23, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
NOW you’re talking! Looks very tasty! Any description?
Comment by josh — April 24, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Beth and I actually made this food (with some help). We went to a Laos cooking class one day and prepared these three dishes.
The top dish is a traditional chicken stew. I forget what the Laos name for it was. It was very spice (we added 2 chilies). On the left is papaya salad which was also spicy. And on the right is a traditional Laos dish called lap, which is minced meat (chicken/beef/pork) with a bunch of spices (mint, coriander, chilies, etc.).
All were very good, but I think we liked the lap the best. We have also had that at several restaurants.
Comment by Peg — April 25, 2009 @ 5:06 am
What a fabulous description! Thank you! And what a brilliant idea, when in a new locale, to take a cooking class and actually *make* food unique to there. That way, when you’re back home (or wherever), you know the real deal, even how to encorporate interesting spices. So cool. Sounds like you both like your food pretty spicy/hot. Do you both like about the same amount of hot? That’s handy for sharing, both at the restaurant and with leftovers brought home. I always order “mild plus,” and Dad orders medium. When we went out the other night with the Windmillers (to Siam Spicy in Novi, across–west–from Twelve Oaks, Ron got extra hot or something crazy like that.
Maybe Dad gets medium for the very purpose of me not maneuvering my way into his food. Hehe. 
Thanks again for all the detail. XOXOX
Comment by josh — April 26, 2009 @ 1:52 am
I would have figured dad would go for the extra spicy. Beth and I both like it spicy… I might like it a bit more spicy than her…
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