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Eating blood or blood dishes is extremely common with Lao people both in Laos and abroad.

Noodle soups, especially "kaow poon", frequently contain cubes of blood jelly (blood tofu), and duck blood salad is a dish that usually contain fresh duck blood from a freshly slaughtered duck getting a slit on the neck with a knife, poor thing.

Please be aware that not all Lao people approve this sort of cruel and inhumane death to ducks.






Duck blood salad

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Blood jelly cubes

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hmongs have a a similar dish like these that uses blood mix with all the insides of a chicken e.g heart, lung, intestines, anus etc etc good stuff baby!

Nothing goes to waste, but not my kind of meal.

I like my food cook or medium rare :)

Cooked foods kills the bacteria.

If you're a tourist, the travel advisors don't recommend eating raw foods in Laos. Raw food is safer in your country.

Cook food tastes better to me. Still don't know why some people like raw. :o

Maybe it brings out more flavour. The Japanese are known for eating raw fish and seafood.

Only thing I like raw is sushi. Because it taste good too, and very healthy. :)

oh ,this is one of the dish i would never try to eat even though i grew up in laos and here in Canada our ppl eat this too :-X

Sap lai elee! Man my mouth is watering for raw duck salad ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D!

You eat raw duck?

You can put raw beef and fish in Lao style meat salads, but I've never seen anyone eat raw duck salad before. Maybe because I don't mingle with the "Lo-So".

From my understanding, duck meat is always cooked, and the blood is the only thing raw. If the blood from the duck is not enough, some people mix it with raw pig blood which is okay.

Are you guys vampires? I don't even like kow poon with cooked blood in it. I guess it's better than the vietnamese drinking snake blood with liquor.

Did someone say Loso? *lights a lighter*

I don't mind a small amount of cooked blood tofu in "kaow poon" and "kaow piek".

Well not entirely true on what I have stated earlier.  My folks prepare the raw duck salad and I normally pour them into an extremely hot frying pan and then continuously stir the salad for 2-3 minutes.  So the duck meat is medium-rare but the blood in the salad is medium cooked. 

Chicken or laap duck I like mine cook. :)

But I do enjoy 'raw' beef salad with stomach linings, spleen juice and/or whatever inside the cow.  Nothing goes to waste! 

Never try before. But maybe if it's medium rare.

i am very surprise that you never had this before.  Hm..must be a 'regional' or 'jungle' dish then. 


llX wrote on 21^st Apr, 2012 at 7:56am:

Never try before. But maybe if it's medium rare.

My parent like them. But I just don't like how raw food taste. :)


HAIR wrote on 21^st Apr, 2012 at 5:07pm:

i am very surprise that you never had this before.  Hm..must be a 'regional' or 'jungle' dish then.  llX wrote on 21st Apr, 2012 at 7:56am: Never try before. But maybe if it's medium rare.

I think you have to be 'khon bon nauk' to be really into this rau food stuff. 

The only things I would eat raw are oysters, and perhaps sushi.

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To be safer, experts suggest to eat raw oysters only in months that end in 'er' - September,October, November and December.

Raw oyster I dont kind. Eat them all the time at casino seafood buffet.


Buk Hoo Kee wrote on 24^th Apr, 2012 at 6:30am:

The only things I would eat raw are oysters, and perhaps sushi.

Have you ever attempted raw grasshoppers?  Oh man very crunchy!


llX wrote on 26^th Apr, 2012 at 1:20pm:

Raw oyster I dont kind. Eat them all the time at casino seafood buffet. Buk Hoo Kee wrote on 24th Apr, 2012 at 6:30am: The only things I would eat raw are oysters, and perhaps sushi.

No but they taste good fries or grill on fire. Smell good too. We used to catch them in the rice fields with net.

You do not catch them anymore because I still do 8-)?


llX wrote on 28^th Apr, 2012 at 7:33am:

No but they taste good fries or grill on fire. Smell good too. We used to catch them in the rice fields with net.

Too much snow in MN not much grasshopper. I think  ;D

3 more weeks they will be ready for catching ;D!

Yum might be good with cold beer :)

Grasshopper, crickets and other insects are very high in protien.  I need at least 1.25grams of protien times my weight to increase muscle mass.  These insects are a perfect solution ;D.