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The food is quite good here. There is a circuit of restaurants here that the foreigners living at the Manoly go to because the food is good, reasonably priced and safe. The little restaurant around the corner is the breakfast spot; the lady there serves fried eggs, a half baguette, and a café lao for about $1. Because Laos used to be a French colony, the bread and especially baguettes are really good. Café lao, is this rich, thick coffee that comes with some condensed milk on the bottom. Mmmmnnnn. According to the Lonely Planet, Lao coffee is supposed to be some of the best in the world.
The Indian restaurant down the street has incredible curries. Dinner there goes for about $3. And of course, we often order traditional Lao food which is also quite tasty. One of the most popular is called laap which is a spicy meat dish. It is traditionally eaten with sticky rice, which sticks together and is served in a little bamboo container. You grab a bit, roll it up into a ball, and then you scoop up some laap with it and eat it. It is incredibly tasty. Nick and I like sticky rice better than regular rice.
The food stalls serve some very tasty treats. There's sticky rice and coconut combinations, rice cakes (that are really good), banana chips. There are Chinese noodle shops, Scandinavian bakeries, and other western restaurants. Thankfully there are no multinational restaurants here; not one McDonalds, or Coffee Time, or 7eleven...it's quite nice.
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