Traditional Lao cuisine
Be sure to try local dishes of local cuisine, since it turned out to be here. It is in this city that there are restaurants where Nobl-Soups (that is, with noodles) almost the best in the country, what can we talk about street kitchen! If there is, sitting on a small chair almost the road - this is for you "TU Mach", then browse the options for Lao cuisine with a good service and atmosphere.
You probably heard about Vietnamese FO . There is also a Lao FD, with its own taste and aroma, as a rule, with beef or pork. FO soup is served in large plates, with greens - salad, mint, basil, fresh lime, beans sprouts, green beans. Good rule: if local residents flock to a particular institution to eat this soup even in the hottest days, then he is exactly tasty. By the way, most tall-soup cafes work only during breakfast and / or dinner, or lunch and dinner.
Beautiful FO can be tried on "PHO ZAP" On the Phai Nam Road, behind the angle from the Stupa Thahat Dam. Founded in 1958, the restaurant today offers large portions of soup with richly seasoned broth, aroma of roasted cinnamon, fenhel and anise. The standard plate of soup FO is there 20,000 boiled, large - 25,000 boiled. The restaurant is open daily from 06:00 to 15: 00. A good alternative is - "PVO NOODLE SOUP" Located less than 500 meters from the central bus station, next to the new Vientiane Center Mall.
Of all the various types of toll soups, Khao Piak. I like very many Western tourists. This is a noodles soup to some extent unusual for Laos: with a round rice noodle of a similar size and shape, like Japanese Udon, with pork broth, sprinkled with fried bowls or garlic.
One of the best options for this soup can be found in the restaurant, located 1.5 km from the city center - and at the same time, this restaurant is always filled with guests. Look for Cafe on Dongpalane Road , Opposite all Time Travel Agency. If you are at the store where yellow and silver stupas are sold, then you have come too far. This soup is served here with pork ribs with very gentle meat. Tell the waiter "Baw Sai Leua" if you do not want meat to bring a little with blood (as they like to order local).
Office workers flock to another place, on the eastern side of Khunboulom Road, north of Hengboun Road. They come here to dine fried noodles with beef and vegetable sauce. This is something more Chinese, and this is generally not enough to soup, as it is almost no broth. It is a dish about 20,000 kip.
Restaurants mentioned above are not the cheapest. And you, of course, can find cheaper options for these soups. And it would be nice to learn the names of the portions: Noy (small), NYAI (big), Tamada (medium). If you failed to explain what I want, just poke your finger or depicting your hands - well, is it worth telling here!
Separately, it is worth highlighting a restaurant "PHA KHAO LAO" . He hid on the Alley between Wat Ong Twee and Coastal Dear. This restaurant is often overlooked, and in vain, because there is an excellent Lao and Thai cuisine. The restaurant has a terrace and garden with lanterns and jasmine bushes: a beautiful and very cozy atmosphere! Perhaps it is here that the best Laap duck is served in the city. Soups and curry are as good, and it is necessary to try fried fish in a tamarind sauce or shrimp, fried with pieces of a young coconut. Prices in the restaurant are from 50,000 kip for the dish, and portions are so big that they can be ordered for two. The restaurant is open every day from 11:30 to 22:00.
As well as very good restaurant Tamnak Lao . He has been almost 25 years old, and this is a local favorite. People are preparing a dish of Lao cuisine, and the decor is a renovated colonial house with a garden. Try the tasting set of six dishes of traditional cuisine or just order LaaP with greens, a fish from Mekong, cooked in coconut milk, as well as other seafood or vegetarian dishes. A large elegant restaurant is popular among tourist groups, and even here cultural events and even wedding ceremonies are organized. The restaurant is located immediately for the Patahai Montument at 23 Singha Road (the road that leads directly to the Stope of Thahat Luang).
No less interesting place - "Makphet" . It is not surprising that this popular restaurant Vientiane had to expand the space: a lot of people have it for a lot of people. Today there is a bunch of tables, and the atmosphere is more than nice. The popularity of the restaurant is deserved, and not only because of delicious food, and even because of the social programs for, youth from risk groups. That before the kitchen, they are spicy, fragrant, with a modern look at the selection of ingredients. Try, for example, buffalo curry, pork sausages with spicy herbs and fried tomatoes, and how delicious sauces that are served with each dish - they are absolutely necessary to try. There are decent options for vegetarians in this restaurant. And try cold cocktails and leave a place in the stomach for dessert, for example, for homemade coconut ice cream or sticky rice with mango. After lunch, you can look into the craft shop immediately to buy some kind of handmade product from recycled materials. You can bring home the secrets of restaurant cuisine by purchasing the book "From Honeybees to Pepperwood", a mandatory thing for anyone interested in Lao cuisine (naturally, it is sold in English). This restaurant is located on the alley between Wat Inpeng and dear along the Mekong River.
If you want to try genuine Lao cuisine in an elegant restaurant, then go to "Amphone" which gives a calm atmosphere. What we try here? LaaP, fried fish and curry, richly seasoned with greens and fish sauce, and if you are a fan of acute food, then it will be necessary to ask for the pillars in advance, as the dishes bring pretty gentle and nonostile. In the heat here it is very pleasant to lunch for air conditioning and shady trees in the courtyard. "AMPHONE" is located near a small alley leading from Jazzy Brick to Wat Xienghuen.
