Food on the Go

Here is some of the food that we ate on our trek in Northern Laos.
The first picture was lunch on the first day, but it was prepared by our hotel from the previous night.
Everything was delicious, as one would expect from a hotel restaurant.
Things got more interesting the following lunch.
The finished product was grilled chicken, rattan soup, steamed rice, and a bamboo salad.
The rattan soup was cooked in bamboo, which you can see in the picture, and was surprisingly good.
Rattan, of course, is quite hard, so it is placed in the fire until the outside is charred, at which point the
outside can be peeled away, leaving the edible inside ready for the soup.
The chicken, which was killed in our hut earlier that morning (!!!), was tied to a couple of sticks, seasoned
with a bit of salt and garlic, and grilled to perfection.
This experience sure gave new meaning to TAKE OUT!!!