Cooking Lao-style always means using fresh ingredients, some intriguing and with unfamiliar flavours. You'll start with a visit to the major food market, explain what these are and what they are used for.

Then you'll take you to ‘Tamarind Gardens to cook and eat:
 - Varieties of jeow: the fundamental Lao spicy dipping sauces 
 - Mok Pa, a popular dish of fish steamed with herbs in banana leaves
 - Tamarind's speciality: lemongrass stuffed with chicken & herbs
 - Orlarm, Luang Prabang's eggplant based speciality: delicious & unusual
 - Dessert course: a surprise!

And of course you'll learn the art of perfecting sticky rice and its eating etiquette.

 Guests meet at Tamarind Restaurant next to Apsara Hotel on the banks of the Nam Khan River.  From here a trip to the market gives a great introduction into the sights, smells and everyday life that surrounds Lao food.  From here its of to the Tamarind Gardens for a morning of cooking and eating!