Isan Food

Isan food is mixture of the Lao and Thai cuisines, but it has taken something from both. Very typical is the use of sticky rice that accompanies almost every meal rather than plain rice.

Popular dishes include tammakhung, or in central Thailand, som tam (papaya salad), which is eaten at least once a day, larb (meat salad) and gai yang (grilled chicken).







Food market in Sangkha







Grasshoppers


Many people in Isan eat a wide variety of creatures, such as lizards, frogs and fried insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms and beetles.