Eateries at Vietiane (Part 1) - Nok-Noy Restaurant

Started off with the budget local delights.

The first meal that we had was at this Nok-Noy Restaurant. It's a restaurant run by 3 girls. There serves traditional Laos food and it's a restaurant recommended by guide book. Prices were moderate. Main dishes starts at USD1 generally.

Lap - Laos-style salad. Strangely it's served hot. More like a mint stir-fry pork to me. The dressing was black pepper with some herbs and spices.

Stir-fry morning glory. Quite plain but tasty. Amongst all dishes, I like this most.

Fish soup. Strong lemon taste. Sour.

Spices stir-fry fish. Normal stir-fry. Sauce was special but the fish... I used to call this kind of fish kampung fish which I don't quite like though, acceptable still.

Spring roll and dragon fruit shake. Laos-style spring rolls taste similar to our "wu xiang". Quite oily... The dragon fruit shake was very sweet. Think it's mainly because of the condensed milk. Laos like to add condensed milk into the fruit shake which makes the shake very sweet, at the expense of the original taste of fruit.

This meal cost us 450 baht for 2. Because of this meal, we decided to exchange our baht to kip to minimise the exchange loss. Hehe. The restaurant converted baht at the rate of 1 Baht = 247 Kip.

** For your information, approximately 1 Baht = 282 Kip; USD1 = 9500 Kip.