Looking good. That's good with sticky rice and papaya salad.

PEACE wrote on 11^th Mar, 2011 at 6:46pm:


Over here we "cage" ours. Aren't there flies where you stay? (I have already made clear my contempt for flies, to do so here would be redundant).

I don't think I need to say what my favourite dish is, do I? My name speaks for itself, doesn't it?

Any Lao food for me, but "larp dip" (raw meat salad for non-Lao speakers).

It's raw and unhealthy.

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 12^th Mar, 2011 at 1:43am:


I (and my whole extended family) can't get enough of the "Larp Dip!" The more blood dripping, he more energetic I feel. "Larp Paa" is good too! (Lao sushi). I always thought "Larp" was the national dish, as it's very popular, especially among the peasant class.

How do you know it's unhealthy? I have never gotten sick from "Larb" nor sick of "Larb". Nor have I heard of anyone that has. 

Well, I've seen people who eat "larp dip" take regular toilet visits.

Raw meat will produce some kind of bad bacteria in your system, but I guess if you eat it once in a while then it shouldn't be a major problem. A fresh kill is more safer to eat than meat older than a week.

Okay, I'll leave it at that because it's your body, and not mine.

There's no doctor in this world who will advise you to go out there and eat as much "larp dip" as you can because it's "healthy" for you.

I am in Houston, Texas and it gets very hot and humid 9 months out of a year so timing is everything to make sin hang and it is more necessary to hang the meat outside and let the sun dry the meat better.  I have to make sin hang only during winter when the weather here is dry and cool (60 degrees day and 35 degree night and relatively dry).  No 'cage' necessary when it is that cool in Texas and thererfore no flies.  But occasionally there are bees hovering around I think it is because I have included honey as part of the ingredients.

Larb Dip wrote on 12^th Mar, 2011 at 12:29am: