Talk:Larb

message: wrt the variant "which does not use lime or fish sauce, but rather other local condiments," it would be great to specify those local condiments. I've had larb only a few times, but at least one of these I'm pretty sure there was no fish sauce, only mouth-burning (but oh-so-delicious) chili, lime, and ... perhaps vinegar? It was so delicious, my stomach rumbles just to think of it. 
timbo 05:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The spice mix refers to Northern Thai lap, which is virtually unavailable outside of (northern) Thailand. If the larb you have eaten contained vinegar in addition to lime juice, and omitted the fish sauce, I would complain to the restaurant. - Takeaway (talk) 17:49, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Spices used as almost always modified for the local consumer base.  Somebody that has only had the meal a few times is probably away from a large SE Asian population base.  You need to take the best (in your opinion) that you can get at the time. - Thomas Chongruk (talk) 17:23, 1 Dec 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Which spices?

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message: The "creator" parameter in the infobox isn't even relevant for traditional dishes like this. I'd like to begin by suggesting it be removed altogether. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:11, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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message: There is a similar dish apparently with no Wikipedia article but many Google hits.
Its name appears Chinese and appears in many spellings such as "san choy bau".
Could it be that this is a Southern Chinese dish inspired by contact with their Lao neighbours to the south? — Hippietrail (talk) 07:40, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would have to do further research, but I would not be surprised since it is a known fact that southern Chinese culture was influenced by Lao culture. The Mekong River in southern China is known as Lan Cang in Chinese, which is another spelling for the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang. Lao people migrated from China...to Laos...and then to Thailand. That was their migration route. During those times, there was no northern Thailand as that area was comprised of Lao principalities that were collectively known as the Lan Na kingdom. In Southeast Asia, Lao people referred to their kingdoms as Lan followed by a noun, such as Lan Xang and Lan Na to show power and strength in numbers because Lan means a million in the Lao language. In the Lao language, Lan Xang means a Million Elephants and Lan Na means a Million Rice Fields. Lan Xang became Laos and Lan Na became northern Thailand. Both kingdoms originated from the Lao people. - Wikicentral (talk) 07:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It is fairly unclear where "sang choi baw" comes from as it only seems to feature on menus of Chinese restaurants in Australia. Perhaps it's Chinese, perhaps it's an Australian-Chinese restaurant adaptation of Lao/Thai larb. Who knows? As for Lanna being originally Lao principalities: the Lanna language is closest to the Shan language of Burma and the Dai language of Yunnan in China, and about as related to the Laotian language as it is to the Central Thai language. The French colonial masters of Vietnam and Laos had proclaimed the ancient Lanna Kingdom in present-day northern Thailand as being "Western Laos", and the British colonial masters of Burma proclaimed it the Southern Shan States, both hoping to eventually also colonialise the former independent Lanna Kingdom which had in the meantime fallen into Central Thai (Bangkok) hands by the late 18th century. - Takeaway (talk) 20:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this dish related to "Sang choi bow"? 

message: I'll never get why Larb is always called a salad.  I mean, it's cooked with meat and eaten warm with rice.  It's as much a salad as a minestrone is a pudding. Maikel (talk) 12:10, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A salad doesn't necessarily need to be made with raw vegetables, or served cold. Western examples would be potato salad, pasta salad, or warm cabbage salad from Austria. What makes something a salad is that the individual ingredients are assembled (not cooked together) and mixed in with a dressing. This applies to larb. - Takeaway (talk) 18:09, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Salad?

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