Don’t Overlook Laos Cuisine

In an article adapted from his book Enchanting Laos, writer/photographer Mick Shippen gets stuck into the local cuisine that has many outside influences and regional delights.

It only takes a short time in Laos to realize that the country marches, or in the case of this slumbering backwater, strolls rather casually, on a diet and pho noodle soup. Yet despite the increase in visitor numbers, Lao cuisine has yet to take make its mark on the culinary map of Southeast Asia.

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