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This riverside restaurant is the place to experience and understand Lao cuisine in Luang Prabang. The various tasting menus feature five traditional types of jeow, or dips, to be eaten with vegetables or sticky rice; there's also a "five-bites" selection that includes dried buffalo, sai oua (flavored local sausage), and other delicacies. The restaurant also runs a popular cooking school worth checking out.
With Parisian-style street-facing seating perfect for people-watching, Tangor flips the expectations with a menu full of Western twists on pan-Asian favorites. Enjoy exclusive dishes like black charcoal dumplings, Japanese-style salmon topped with flakes of Mekong riverweed, and ceviche that might be the best in this hemisphere.
