welcome back I'm Gary Butler with the roaming cook
and today I am in cool crisp Luang Prabang in northern Laos
why am I in Luang Prabang well I'm here to eat one of my favorite soups of all time Lao Kao soil so
I came here in 2017 in December so just over a year ago and I first had this love khao SOI now
if you're not familiar with that Lau Khao SOI it's got absolutely nothing to do with the the northern
Thai khao SOI that i'm always banging on about you've seen some of my other videos and you'll
see me eating in Bangkok or a couple I've done in Chiang Mai mayor Sally young in Bangkok and
click those links above if you don't know what I'm talking about that's a thick creamy coconut based
curried noodle dish so when I heard khao SOI in lao i was intrigued so I was expecting it to be
pretty much the same thing but it couldn't be more different so I'm not like its northern Thai cousin
it this khao SOI is made with medium fresh rice noodles the same sort of noodles you would get
in a vietnamese bath the soup pace is pork bone the stock but it's flavored with this amazing red
bean paste important since I clicked on Portman's with fermented soy beans and chili so let me try
this now because I hope haven't overhype this has been a year since I've tried this broth
now it's incredible the red bean paste is not dissimilar from light Chinese fermented
bean paste Korean chili paste it's got hands minced pieces of fatty pork with like a tomato
he brought so it's like Helen describes it as a as a Bolognese like a la Bolognese she doesn't
usually eat noodle soup and be sure happily this so I do think it needs a bit of work though so
I'm gonna get a couple of these limes we've got two limes squeeze both of those in go in with a
little bit of bean sprouts some of this spicy Chow I'm not really sure what's in that I will find out
but it's like a it's like a roasted chili paste and another thing I absolutely love about lao
noodle soups like in vietnam is the abundance of fresh herbs and that you get with the soup
so you know it just really really live see it freshens it up the one that interests me most
pac-man which means water vegetable in English watercress and it tastes exactly the same as
English watercress it's so come in so rich but it's the combination of the tomatoes the mint
it's a little bit like kanonji numbing out in northern Thailand but it's got that fermented
bean paste as well it's time we had some are only brought salty sour really spicy it's a big lump
that jaew it once you've got all the noodles out the way you're at the bottom of the bowl
you're just left with pork and it's been paste so you've probably seen my videos of me in Lao
eating khao jee which are the Lao baguettes and also khao piak sen which is another famous soup
in Lao that and far that you can get everywhere this Khao SOI is is native to luang phrabang on
the northern Lao area so you can't get it all through Lao I know my friend Mick did
just find one in vientiane so I'll stick a link up so you can check him out check that
out if you're in vientiane but this is really something you have to come to the one prevent
or be in any self-respecting noodle soup lover like myself would do that alright so I will
stick a map with directions and opening times in the description box below there is another khao
SOI shop a couple of doors down which is more famous a lot busier but for me this one's much
much better so you are looking for a shot and I'm under script job it's just the looks like
a it's a half a newsagent half noodle soup shop opposite band not what Nam which is a school on
the main drag in luang phrabang big yellow signs say khao SOI khao piak and a couple of blue tables
outside and this lady cooking de su all right so i hope you found this video interesting if you
did don't forget to like share and subscribe thank you very much again for watching your
support is very much appreciated i will see you again back in bangkok so the next video