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Laab Muu (Minced Pork Salad)

Nong Khai, Thailand – Laab, Issan’s famous minced meat salad, can be found all over Thailand.  The chopped meat, usually pork or beef, is mixed with lime juice, fish sauce, herbs such as mint, chilies, shallots and roasted rice powder.  I’ve always found it to be spicy and almost light, an effect due to the citrus punch and mix of herbs.  Here in Issan though, they commonly include a few elements that I haven’t seen before - little curls of pork skin and small slices of liver or some other innards - which lend an earthy richness that distinguishes it from the laabs I’ve had elsewhere.