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I'm taking an interest lately in Lao cuisine (I'm in the country). But I haven't noticed where they get their fibre from.

Which traditional dishes or ingredients should I investigate?

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  • What do you mean by "fibre" in this context? – SAJ14SAJ Sep 17 '13 at 07:26
  • Dietary fibre, that keeps you regular (-: I tried to avoid anything that made it sound like a health and nutrition question and keep it to a factual question. – hippietrail Sep 17 '13 at 07:29
  • As in non-digestible polysaccharides? – SAJ14SAJ Sep 17 '13 at 07:36
  • As in "roughage". Non digestible. Not sure about the polysaccharides, it's not my field. – hippietrail Sep 17 '13 at 07:40
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    Reading the lao cuisine wiki article, they seem to be a fairly typical Asian cuisine with a lot of vegetables. I suspect that is your answer: the cellulose in the cell walls of most vegetables is not digestible. – SAJ14SAJ Sep 17 '13 at 07:42
  • Yes they actually serve a plate of raw greens with most traditional meals too. Would raw green/leaf vegetables mean more fibre too? I think this is a peculiarity of Lao cuisine. – hippietrail Sep 17 '13 at 07:46
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    let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10629/discussion-between-saj14saj-and-hippietrail) – SAJ14SAJ Sep 17 '13 at 11:59

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Papaya salad(tam mak hoong) has firbre.

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