Local food market and cooking class

We got up early today to enjoy a 5 hour cooking class (including visit to the food market) with the staff of Tamarind restaurant. We had a such a great experience doing this in Cambodia that we were very keen to do it again in Laos. :-)

The food market was great. Everything is very much hands on - you can see and smell all the various herbs and vegetables. Fish are in various states of either being still alive in their water basins or being skinned and chopped into pieces by the sellers. The meat section is also more involved than what most western tourists would be used to from home: all different parts of the animals are on display (stomach or intestines, anyone?). When they are not busy selling their goods, the vendors are chopping apart animal pieces, shaving off fur from pigs faces or making jelly out of animal blood. 🐖 -> 🍖

The cooking lesson was fun and in a great setting (outdoors in a country villa). We cooked 5 different dishes and then enjoyed lunch together with the ~10 other attendees. We also met a very friendly German couple, Felix and Jessica, and passed on our enthusiasm for doing a world travel. ✈️

We very pretty tired after the cooking class so we went back to the hotel for a little rest. In the evening we checked out “Utopia”, a hip restaurant/cafe (where we also got shelter during heavy rain that passed over Luang Prabang for about an hour) and then walked back home :-)Read more