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Laos > General Information > Food
For breakfast, try Lao coffee and ba-tan-gho, fried dough available from street vendors.
Sticky rice and chicken or laap (delicious chopped spicy meat), and spicy soup are great introductions to Lao food, as is waterfall beef.
Do not drink tap water. Even in the smallest guest houses in the remotest villages there are thermos bottles with boiled water to prepare tea.
Beer Lao
Tha Beer Lao tastes very good. It contains about 5% alcohol and is
served either in bottles of 3 dl and 6 dl, or in 2 l jugs. In Thalat,
north of Vientiane, they sell 4-5 liter bags.
Eating on the bus
Since busses leave very early and sometimes arrive late in the
evening, it can be a problem to get a decent meal in a restaurant.
However, there are many people selling food when a bus happens to
stop near their food stall. They sell eggs, rice, fried chicken, fried
bananas, fresh fruit, bread, etc. Most of the time the food is cold
and not of outstanding quality, because it is kept in the open and
gets dusty.
They also sell drinks in bottles and cans (cans are much more expensive than bottles). The bottles must be paid or left back. If you do not finish your bottle sellers are happy to fill the drink into a plastic bag which they give to you with a straw.