Chicken and fruitshakes

If it comes down to food LP is definitely the capital of Lao. No wonder that Pete and I are getting lazy and fat :-)The reasons are diverse and of course really tasty.
Let's start with breakfast; you can have -as the locals do - a big bowl of soup with rice noddles, vegetables and thin sliced meat or -and this is definitely our favorite - a sandwich. Thanks to the French you can get here baguettes that will make you feel like god in France. Pete normally goes for ham and mustard - I prefer chicken, omelet and sweet chili sauce.
With all these millions of varieties it takes you ages to find out what your favorite is!
Around lunchtime the soup stalls vanish and the city is covered in smoke. BBQs everywhere ... and everything! Starting with tasty chicken breast over whole fish to more exotic and unusual stuff like aehm whole pig heads. But yeah, the chicken breast is great!
Mhm, dinner. Of course you can go to one of the many riverside restaurants, but yeah, on a tight budget there are better options. The best - unbeatable - is the vegetarian buffet at the night market. You have a big, big plate and can fill it up with all kinds of veggie and noddle dishes - for 5000 kip ( that's more or less 50 Cents)
Sweets are not really the specialty of this region but if you are craving sugar try an Oreo-Shake: Shoko cookies, coconut milk and ice mixed - sweeter than pure sugar!
The more healthy option are fruit shakes, you just show the vendor which fruits you like - and the choice between dragon fruit, mango and papaya is hard - mix it with ice and milk and ready is a more than delicious desert.

Sarah