Lao cuisine
If you are looking for a restaurant where you could try traditional dishes, then better than Tamarind Restaurant can not found. By the way, the restaurant also has a culinary school (the lessons need to be recorded in advance). Be sure to try their Meuyang (roll with herbs and fresh vegetables) and branded smoothies with local ingredients, such as hibiscus flowers and exotic fruits. The dishes in this restaurant are adapted to the "gentle Europeans" (service and furnishings are appropriate, pleasant), but you can try more exotic Lao options, ordering Adventurous Lao Gourmet. Be careful: ingredients and flavors are not for the faint of heart or not for weak stomachs! The extraordinary popularity of the restaurant means that in the high season it will be necessarily full tourists, and therefore the booking of the Stoics is extremely recommended. Most likely, in the evening there will be noisy and crowded, but what to do! But for such a popular and good restaurant, prices here remain extremely reasonable.
"Cafe Toui" - Tiny restaurant on the alley near Sisavangvong and night market. Lao food in this place is one of the best in the city. Curry with coconut milk and meat in banana leaves, and still delicious vegetarian options and cool snacks, for example, pancakes. Cafe is clean and simple, like many budget restaurants in the city. Accordingly, the prices are fluid here in the area of 40000 boiled for the second dish (which is nice - pork and chicken dishes do not contain fat, cartilage or bones). It will be more expensive if you order a steak from buffalo, but it is worth it.
Tourist favorite for more than ten years - Tamnak Lao . Here you can taste authentic Lao dishes, plus a mandatory paste and hamburgers. Since the restaurant is very popular among tourist groups, there may be a lot of people, so you have to be patient. Try here Stuffed with pork minced bamboo shoots, fish with lime and lemon grass on a couple of fish and eggplants with fresh baguette.
Another restaurant beloved tourists, "Vegetarian Buffet" , responsible for stability and quality. And although there are several other places where you can dine only 10,000 instrumentation, there is probably fatty food, and the food is too simple and monotonous. Immediately the menu changes every night, but you can always count on fried vegetables, noodles, pumpkin curry, potatoes, salads and rice. And fresh rolls for 1000 boiled. The restaurant exhibits several tables along the street of the clock at 5 pm, and also sells beer and gas production - and so about 21:00.
Nudle-Soup - a favorite breakfast and lunch in Laos. As a rule, the local noodle-soup-restaurants are open either only for breakfast, or for lunch and breakfast, and then closed, sometimes at 11:00 in the morning. Kao Soya Noodles in Prabang is very different from the famous version in Chiang Mai. In Laos. Kao Soy - Bowl of rice noodle with bolognese from minced meat pork, fermented soybeans, tomatoes and chili peppers. Try the restaurant on the main street of the city, opposite Wat Seneshukharam. You can also try Lao FD soup, as a rule, with pork. "Xiengthong Noodle" , on the main street almost at the end of the peninsula, near Wata Xienegzong, Cao Rica, rice noodles with pork, fried garlic and greens are preparing. It's easy, tasty and cheaply - only 10,000 kips - and, perhaps, this is the cleanest toll-soup restaurant almost in all Laos.
If Cao Soy is passionately, as in Chiang Mai, go to "Noodle Chiang Mai" Where for 15,000 kip you will get a classic yellow noodle with coconut milk and chicken. There are also a vegetarian curry with vegetables and tofu.
A restaurant ROOTS & LEAVES (Former Pond View Terrace Restaurant) saved the pond and fruit trees, expanded the menu and added an evening show. These shows are traditional music and dancing, as well as the game on traditional Laos tools (runs from about 19:00 to 21:00). Booking tables are recommended, because there are often large groups of tourists who occupy a majority of space.
Restaurants on the river
It is difficult to choose the "best" restaurant on the river bank, however, the restaurant at View Khem Khong Guesthouse Something exceeds its competitors. The menu is not so big, but the dishes are traditional and well prepared. It is strongly recommended to try Luangprabang sausages, algae from the Mekong River and Lahap, a salad of chopped meat with greens. You can also make a vegetarian version with fried tofu. A large number of local is the original indicator of genuine cooking quality and fair prices, and, to all of the time, it opens a stunning look! Do not confuse this restaurant with a nearby restaurant called View Keamkong Restaurant.
Restaurant category "cheap and angry" - Rosella Fusion , with a cute terrace overlooking us Khan. The dishes are only 24,000 boiled meals, and the types are much cooler than in many restaurants in the district. Fruit cocktails with coconut milk, curry, lap, salads and soups - all this can be ordered here. Just do not come here too hungry, as it works too few people for fast maintenance.
You may be surprised to find out that there was no Thai restaurant in this city before in 2013 it was opened "The Terrace" . And before that moment on the entire coast, there was no such an elegant restaurant, like this, with beautiful backlit, high trees and soft seats (just once for couples). Here you can order perfect curry or fried fish with Tamarind sauce and pan ped (when the lettuce is wrapped in the leaves, for example, fried duck, noodles, sliced vegetables, herbs and sauces). The menu is a little expensive: snacks from 55,000 boiled, and grilled meat - from 100,000 kip, but the main thing here is the location!
Lao barbecue is called Sindad. And you simply must try it, being in Luang Prabang, especially in cool evenings. This is a real merger of Chinese hotpto and a Korean barbecue, where thin slices of meat in the center of the pan, and noodles, green vegetables, mushrooms and eggs swim in the broth nearby. This beauty can be tried in most restaurants on the banks of the Mekong River. Unfortunately, the best sindad restaurant burned down in 2013, but in second place "KHEM KHAN SINDAD" On us Khan (not far from APSARA HOTEL).
