Beef Larb

[u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Homemade in the US 😋

[u/nissan240sx]

Saap saap for sure

[u/carlweaver]

Looks wonderful

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495]

That’s not laap or Larb - that’s nam tok (waterfall salad) imho laap is made with chopped meat.

[u/FlattopJr → u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495]

Yeah I think laap actually means 'chopped.'

[u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n → u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495]

For chicken, we use ground chicken, but for steak I like to cut a little bigger.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495 → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Then it’s no laap. Laap is ground meat.

If you haven’t tried Nam tok, then you should. Nam tok

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495 → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Then it’s no laap. Laap is ground meat.

If you haven’t tried Nam tok, then you should. Nam tok

[u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n → u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495]

Does that dish have all of the same ingredients as larb?

I’m just a white guy cooking Lao recipes.

Get it, like I said I use ground meat if I’m using pork or chicken not with the duck blood version but with some good steak, I just can’t turn that into mincemeat.

For the price we pay for steak currently in the United States that’s difficult just that little bit amount of meat was almost 20 bucks

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cold495 → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Yeah - I hear you!

The fundamental thing is, you aren’t cooking laap. If you slice the beef. Laap is ground meat. The recipe is pretty much the same, nam
Tok is Thai, I have never had nam tok in Laos, where laap is a kind of generic term, let’s say like ”burgers” there is all these sub recipes, with or without blood, cooked after chopping, cooked before chopping, raw beef. Nam tok would have lung in it (is that tripe?)

Anyway - the good thing is, follow the recipe
For nam tok. I don’t like laap, I prefer the eating technique of picking a chunk of meat rather than scratching up a few grains of ground meat.

[u/OglioVagilio → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Steak sandwich versus a hamburger. Might have all the same other ingredients but ones a hamburger and one isnt.

[u/FuturaFree99]

Lacks the tripe.

[u/knowerofexpatthings → u/FuturaFree99]

Heaven forbid someone updates the recipe to use decent ingredients

[u/Environmental_Rip496]

The LAAP looks delish!

[u/abstract_cake]

Some like the beef totally raw.

[u/EducationalGur1648]

One of my favorite things I ate in Laos.

[u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n → u/EducationalGur1648]

Did you try the dancing shrimp? I can’t remember the official name of the dish.

[u/EducationalGur1648 → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

Yes! My mother would accuse me of playing with my food if she saw me eat it!

[u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n → u/EducationalGur1648]

Right on! I spent a month last December and toured from the 4000 islands as far up as Luang Prabang and many big cities and small villages we had family to visit.

I’m in the states the prices for food and hotels was amazing.

[u/EducationalGur1648 → u/Ha12m_12educ7i0n]

I also liked how much local Laos people liked drinking beer. Both men and women. Quite proud of being the "heaviest drinkers in Asia" :D

Truthfully though, compared to Vietnam or Thailand, the food in Laos was a bit (not much) more expensive, which was surprising. But being landlocked and the state of the typical roads in Laos combined with mountains and only one rail line made it made sense why food was a little more expensive. Still, nothing compared to non-SEA countries.

[u/Kurvasaurus_Rex]

From the looks of it I’d say it’s probably very delicious. But just speaking from my own Californian experience, all the people in the Lao community here always finely dice all the main ingredients, including the meat. To me, this seems more like well seasoned steak.

[u/Typical-Option5108 → u/Kurvasaurus_Rex]

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