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About Lao Cafe - Covent Garden
A Laotian meal is all about the joy of sharing. A typical meal is made up of an array of dishes to be had with sticky rice or noodles. For two guests, we recommend at least two salads and two main dishes. For larger groups, one salad and one char-grilled dish per person, and at least a curry or a hot pot to share.
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Spicy sour pork rib soup
£15.50Char-grilled pork neck
£12.50Mixed Mushroom
£12.50Papaya salad Thai style
£12.50Papaya salad with anchovies
£13.50Lao style papaya salad
£13.50Papaya salad with salted egg
£13.50Stir Fried Lao Vermicelli -Pork
£12.50Stir Fried Lao Vermicelli - Prawns
£13.50Whole Fish with aubergine dip
£20.50
Papaya Salad
These papaya salads are made in a traditional wooden pestle & mortar, with customisable spiciness level depending on how many chillies you prefer.
Papaya salad with anchovies
Pla Raa£13.50Lao style papaya salad
Tum Lao£13.50Papaya salad with salted egg
Kai Khem£13.50Papaya salad Thai style
Tum Thai - shredded green papaya, carrots & green beans in our classic papaya salad dressing.£12.50Papaya salad with pickled crab
£13.50
Spicy Salad
Soop is the art of mixing and balancing the four flavours of Lao food: salty (fish sauce), sweet (palm sugar), sour (lime juice) and spicy (chillies).
Bamboo Shoot salad
Soop Nor Mai£11.50
Laab Dry Salad
Laab is a dry salad mix of crunchy toasted rice, whole roasted chillies, mint, fried shallots, spring onions.
Char-grilled pork neck
Nam Tok Kor Moo - Char-grilled pork neck tossed in our laab sauce£12.50Boiled Liver Laab
Tub Wan£12.50Popular
Grilled
Jee - Marinated meat, grilled until charred & succulent. Found on every street corner of Laos. Served with a spicy dipping sauce. Best with sticky rice.
Chargrilled Pork Neck
Jee Kor Moo£11.50Chargrilled Pork Skewers
Jee Moo - Chargrilled marinated Pork Skewers.£9.50PopularFermented Lao Sausage
Sai Gork Lao£9.50Whole Fish with aubergine dip
Pla Pao Gluer Salt - grilled Whole Fish served with aubergine dip, vermicelli noodles & fresh herbs for 2 or more.£20.50Herbal Northern Sausages
Sai Oua£9.50
Curry
Om - Laotian curries don’t use coconut milk; after all, coconut trees don’t grow on a land-locked mountainous terrain. Instead, it’s packed full of fresh herbs & spices to make your taste buds tingle.
Mixed Mushroom
Om Hed Bai Ya Nang£12.50
Hot Pot
Mor Fai - A spicy & sour soup, eaten all year round. Traditionally served from a communal pot over charcoal to keep the soup (and the house) warm.
Spicy sour pork rib soup
Tom Zaap Gadook Moo£15.50Popular
Stir Fried Noodles
Stir Fried Lao Vermicelli -Pork
Stir-Fried Lao Vermicelli pork£12.50PopularStir Fried Lao Vermicelli - Prawns
Pad Mhee Lao - Vermicelli noodles with prawns and beansprouts£13.50Stir Fried Lao Vermicelli
Pad Mhee Lao - Vermicelli noodles with vegetables£12.50
Sides
Sticky white rice
Currently sold out£4.50Sticky rice
Brown sticky rice in banana leaf.£4.50Grilled Sticky Rice
£5.50Rice Noodles (kanom jeen)
£5.00
Beer Snacks
Deep Fried Chicken Wings
Beek Gai Tod£8.00
Drinks
Coke
330ml can£3.50Harrogate Still Water
330ml glass bottle£2.00Harrogate Sparkling Water
330ml glass bottle£2.00Diet Coke
330ml can£3.50