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老挝烹饪 Laotian Cooking: The Forgotten Tradition

Laotian cooking — the culinary tradition of one of the world's most landlocked and least developed countries, bordered by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar — is the least documented of the major Southeast Asian culinary traditions in English. It is simultaneously the closest relative of Thai cooking (the Lao and Thai languages are mutually intelligible; the Lao diaspora in northeastern Thailand is so large that Isaan cooking is essentially Lao cooking) and distinctly itself.

Overview

The Laotian culinary foundation.

Source

BURMESE + CAMBODIAN + LAOTIAN + SOUTH CAUCASUS

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Isaan Thai cooking (essentially the same tradition — the Thai-Lao border is a political line through a continuous culture), Vietnamese cooking (shared colonial French influence — though Lao shows less