Lao meal and Japanese food

1. Food of your country
Start from the traditional manner of eating was communal, with dinners sitting on a reed mat on the floor on the floor around the raise platform woven out of rattan call ”Ka toke” or “Pha khao”  each Pha khao will have one or more baskets of sticky rice.

Lao meal typically consist of a soup dish, a grilled dish, a sauce,  green and a stew or mixed dish, the greens are usually fresh raw greens, herb and other vegetable.
Lao people enjoy fresh vegetables and herb, for this reason they appear in almost every lao meals, meat and fish are usually grilled or steamed as result, the famous are fresh and dishes low in fat.

Dish
The staple food of the lao is steamed sticky rice, which is eaten by hand. In fact the lao eat more sticky rice than any people in ASEAN country. Sticky rice is considered the essence of what it mean to be Lao, Galangal, lemongrass and Padaek (fermented fish sauce) are important ingredients. Especially Padaek will add into almost of food in Laos.
The most famous lao dish is Lapp which mean Lucky , a spicy mixture of marinated meat or fish that is sometime raw with variable combination of herb, green and spices.

Papaya salad more famously

Khao poun nam sin
This is a dark hearty soup with chunks of beef and tendon boiled until tender. Bamboo shoots adds a slightly sour flavor to balance the dark meaty soup. It is accompanied by thin rice noodles.
Khaipen with jaewbong  is a popular snack, khaipen is made of fresh water green algae, peppered with sesame seeds and sundried into paper thin sheet.

Lao sausage
Also know as sai uoa lao sausage makes a pleasant appetizer or snack. Chopped pork meat, season with herb such as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, shallots. Cilantro, galangal and flavored with fish sauce, good with sticky rice and fresh vegetable.

Beverage
There are two general types of traditional alcoholic beverage, both produce from rice: Lao hai and Lao lao
Lao hai mean jar alcohol and is served from an earthen jar, it is communally and competitively drunk through straws at festive occasions it can be likened to SAKE in appearance and flavor.
Lao lao or lao alcohol is more like a whisky. It is also called lao khao or, in English, white alcohol. However, there is also popular variant of lao lao made from purple rice, which has a pinkish hue.

2.Japanese food
That I mention before I had a chance to go to japan, and I went to 4 city in japan such as: OSAKA, KYOTO, NAGOYA, TOKYO. All of these city have many delicious food. For me Japanese food have many dish in one set, the first i eat, it is funny I do not know how to eat. So now let start from food that I like the most:

sweet
matcha can make a lot of thing about food especially tea and sweet that I know Japanese people like to drink green tea and they say to me it is important part of Japanese food culture, green tea is also the central element of tea ceremony. Green tea ice cream or matcha ice is Japanese ice cream flavor. I heard that is very popular in japan when I tried it, it is very smooth and good taste.

Bento box
It is single-portion can make easy to take out and eat in the other place because Japanese has the limitation of time. There are many thing in one box such as: rice, fish and meat with pickle or cooked vegetable, usually in a box shaped container, when the schedule are very fit they provide it for us. But it is very delicious and cute.

Ramen
I love this dish because when I eat I feel I am hone, exactly the taste is look like noodle in Laos, we call khao soy. But different a little is there is many things that topping that I saw in menu.

Sushi
I believe when a person who talk about food in japan the first thing that they can imagine is sushi because it is freshy, sushi can prepared with either brown or white rice, it is often prepared with raw seafood and serve with wasabi and soy sauce.

SAKE
I like the flavor, in japan, where it is the national beverage, sake is often serve with special ceremony.

I do not have enough time to try the food that I find in website (recommendation dish in japan) such as: oden, kaiseeki, Takoyaki and sukiyaki.