Lahpet (Pickled Tea Leaves Salad)
Dinner at a restaurant in Bagan. The dishes offered were generally Chinese-inspired.
This is the exception: Lahpet thohk, a Shan-inspired salad of pickled tea leaves with fried peas, peanuts and garlic, toasted sesame, fresh garlic, tomato, green chili, crushed dried shrimps, preserved ginger and dressed with peanut oil, fish sauce and lime.
Very flavourful, very crunchy and the pickled tea leaves impart a rather intriguing green and musty taste.
Unfortunately, this was also the dish we suspected....that gave my mate a really bad stomach experience.
Lahpet (Pickled Tea Leaves Salad)
Dinner at a restaurant in Bagan. The dishes offered were generally Chinese-inspired.
This is the exception: Lahpet thohk, a Shan-inspired salad of pickled tea leaves with fried peas, peanuts and garlic, toasted sesame, fresh garlic, tomato, green chili, crushed dried shrimps, preserved ginger and dressed with peanut oil, fish sauce and lime.
Very flavourful, very crunchy and the pickled tea leaves impart a rather intriguing green and musty taste.
Unfortunately, this was also the dish we suspected....that gave my mate a really bad stomach experience.