Laos — Tamarind Restaurant, Luang Prabang (ຫລວງພະບາງ/ຫຼວງພະບາງ), Laos
Last Dinner in Laos
September 2015
It was my last evening in Laos, and I wanted somewhere that served authentic Laos food or claimed to serve authentic Laos food. I found the Tamarind Restaurant.
The restaurant was very popular, so get there early after sunset. The restaurant also offered cooking classes if you want to learn Laos cooking.
It was a nice place. It had no Wi-Fi but a good menu and a charming table outside.
I was still a little dehydrated from my hot and sweaty hike over at Ban Xieng Man, so I ordered a Tam Cooler (which came with a bamboo straw) and a beer. The Tam Cooler was too sweet for my taste, and the beer was the coldest I had ever drunk. It was amazingly cold. (Or that could have been another side effect of my hot walk.)
To eat, I had the Five Bites, which consisted of sticky rice with five popular Lao snacks:
