Spicy Minced Pork Salad

One of the menus to eat with sticky rice and papaya salad is definitely Lap Mu with its spicy and unique flavor in northeastern style, just like the papaya salad. Its smell from herbs and roasted rice are outstanding. It is the menu that anyone who eats it will say “Yummy!”

With its spicy flavor, it is not hard to guess that Lap is a local food from the northeast and the north of Thailand, including Laos and Xishuangbanna. In the past, Lap was not a food that common people could eat because Lap was a noble food, which were made only in religious or auspicious ceremonies, like house blessing ceremony, wedding, and ordination ceremony. Later, it spread and was adapted to reach the common people and the young generation until it became popular.