No real food today mostly water. But this is our home. V sad to be leaving it. But excited about Luang Namtha adventures.

At the falls we had this rice with our fish. Just freshly made egg and vegetable fried rice. In Laos things are much milder than in china and this dish has a light scallion and soy sauce taste.

Having just said that the food makes us ill we do keep trying :) At the tad sai waterfalls. Delicious steamed river fish with lemongrass chilli and scallions kaffir lime leaves. It's really simply and fragrant. A definite try at home. So easy. They have fresh lemongrass here. So a handy tip for our dried stuff is to pop the stems in a glass of water. After a few days they will form fresh shoots.

More delicious spring rolls. Everything I try something else in Laos like curry or salad or meat just get ill. So sadly the food choices this week have been rather predicable and quite western. Baguettes pizza spring rolls. More greens and exercise needed :) As its still low season the turn around in restaurants is not high enough. The laos food in general is food you would expect from a v poor country.

Nice touch of paprika and touch of chilli powder with oil for the bread sticks. 27th had fruit breakfast and not much else.