• Cookbooks
• Sticky rice
• Khai pene (seaweed)
• Chilli products
• Fruits, flowers and drink packs
• Seeds
• Cooking implements

Cookbooks

Re-create your Lao food experiences at home, with Tamarind's themed mini-cookbooks.

Sticky rice

This Lao staple food is easy to prepare, fun to eat and a great gift or reminder of your stay in Laos. Its called sticky rice because once cooked, it sticks together so you can use it to pick up morsels of food or dip into tasty and spicy sauces. Also known as glutinous rice, it is in fact gluten-free.

• White sticky rice
• Black sticky rice
• Purple sticky rice
• Purple sticky rice dessert pack
• Triple Treat rice pack

All packs come with recipes and/or serving instructions.

Khai Pene

Now being discovered by top chefs worldwide, khai pene is a culinary delicacy made only in Luang Prabang from a local river vegetable. Pounded into paper-thin sheets with tomatoes, garlic, scallions and sesame, it is dusted with sesame seeds, and sun-dried. We sell it in three varieties:

• Toasted lightly in oil, ready to eat in small snack packs
• Attractive triangular gift packs with cooking instructions
• Conveniently rolled sheets - for the gourmet cook. Makes a great wrap for baking, steaming & barbecuing fish.

Chilli products

• Dried chillies
  Why is there such a love of chilli worldwide? Because when we eat them, our bodies produce a natural high or chilli buzz. Lovers of hot and spicy food are probably addicted! Rich in Vitamin C, they act as natural preservatives.
  Our packs contain two types, including the fiery and famous tiny Lao mak pet kinou with one of the highest ratings in the world for chilli heat. Drying chillies concentrates the natural sugars and intensifies their flavours and dried chillies give sauces complex flavours and spiciness.
• Luang Prabang sweet chilli paste - jeow bong
  This extremely popular chilli relish or dip, is a speciality of Luang Prabang. Mildly spicy yet sweet, its usually served as an accompaniment to sticky rice and steamed vegetables. Great with grilled meats, poultry or fish. (Vegetarians please note: contains fish sauce)



• Hot stuff: Chilli ladder
  Dried chilli powder from local chillies, with three levels of heat. Start at the bottom and work up to the famous, fiery mak pet kinou at the top.

Fruits, flowers and drink packs

• Dried jujube drink packs
  The jujube is a fascinating plum-like fruit, sometimes called "red date. Its flavour is a cross between date and apple. A low-sugar, low-glycaemic fruit, it is dried and can be used in any recipe calling for raisins, dried fruit or dates.
• Dried rosella flower packs
  Rosella, a member of the Hibiscus family, sometimes known as roselle or red sorrel. A sought-after wild food with edible flowers, it makes a delicous, colourful syrup for pancakes, waffles and icecream.
  In our pack you will find recipes for this and other rosella delights, including Iced Rosella Cordial, Rosella Tea and Rosella Rum Fizz.
• Dried bael fruit (or Bengal quince)
  Dried bael fruit resembles candied orange slices, and makes a highly decorative component for craft or de´cor. This fruit, grown and sun-dried in Laos, is highly regarded in many Asian countries as a treatment for travellers gastric problems. It makes a refreshing hot tea or iced drink.
• Suprise summer drink packs
  These packs contain dried jujube fruit or red date, dried rosella flowers and dried bael fruit (Bengal quince). All with extensive recipes and serving suggestions.






Seeds

Packets of seasonally-available varieties of herbs and vegetables from Luang Prabang: Lao basil, coriander, dill, snake beans, lettuce and other Lao greens for the home gardener.





Cooking implements


• Bamboo steamers for sticky rice
• Bamboo serving containers (aep khao)
• Mortar and pestle
  Pounding herbs and spices releases flavours like nothing else can. You can pound harder than with a wooden one. We stock small versions that arent too heavy. Get the authentic Lao feeling, flavour and sound back at home!