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The many-different-kinds & exotic morning & night market of Luang Prabang

// June 7th, 2010 // Food & Beverage, Photography, Travel

After giving alms to the monks (Tak Bat in Lao) we visited the morning market of Luang Prabang to get a better picture of the culture and what’s getting on our plates during lunches & dinner here. The raw ingredients on sale on these markets will be a surprise for many since we don’t usually ingredients like pollywogs (tadpoles), squirrels, bamboo rats, rodents, bush meat, buffalo skin, buffalo legs, bugs, and fresh seaweeds. I didn’t manage to see a lot of these for sale on that day as compared to this link here.

Typical architecture of a house here. Mostly squarish with big doors.

The place where the local shop for groceries and food.

Many different kinds of rice, vegetables, groceries on sale, but placed on the floor.

Some young bananas, wild mushrooms and pollywogs/tadpoles !!! I wonder how it be cooked, and how it would taste like, I never see this cooked and selling on the streets. Something new to try.

Fresh fish from the Mekong river and some bugs.

Papaya, small fish, big Mekong fish (a bass?) and tadpoles.

Fried bee hoon in banana leaves, smells good.

Fresh honey in banana leaves.

Buffalo skin, they cook it in a soupy dish served with rice. Looks chewy.

The usual dry goods, like garlic and onion and not so usual vegetables like this thorny sticks (sticks with thorn), not sure what’s it called) on the right.

Familiar? Yes, yau char kwai (you tiao) or Chinese fried bread cruller, beh kar (horse leg in Cantonese), and ham chim peng

More Buffalo skins.

Fresh seaweed from the Mekong river. This is freshness straight from the sea, not the usual dried and flavorred seaweed in your local supermarket.

Lady culling tadpoles.

Waffles in traditional charcoal fire.

More seaweeds and raw ingredients like this tree log here. Not sure what is it for. Anyone could educate me on this?

Before we leave, we bought some Pork sausages ala Luang Prabang style.

Pork sausages served with sticky rice (Khaw neow in Lao)

This is their dried and sesame flavoured seaweed in plastic. You serve it with hot chilly sauce.

Buffalo whole leg raw and fresh !!! You also have some marinated meat at the back and some skins for sale.

Dried lotus roots and condiments.

Lao economy “sticky” rice. A lot of sausages, fish cakes, animal internals, eggs, and other soupy dishes.

This is good food. Flavoured sticky rice in bamboo. Much like our Malaysian Lemang but this one’s a lot better. Handy food  on the go as well.

Aunty selling lottery. This is Lao lottery selling system. Look at the chart and let her know the lucky number to buy.

Different kinds of fragrance rice on sale anywhere in the market.

Laos Pharmacy. Pharmacist in yellow.

Famous french loaf and barbeque.

Yummy. Barbeque fish/meat/sausages/ served with sticky rice.

Dinner time in one of the restaurants. Beer Lao, the official home grown beer. Not bad, try it.

Sticky rice for most of Lao meal. Served in a small basket, it’s very presentable and taste very good.

This lady is trying to sell roti canai. Roti pisang, roti telur, roti epal, roti nenas, all sorts. 5000 kip for a piece = RM 2/pc.

Haha… most tourist would gather around her to see what kinda “pancake” was that.