Laotian Chicken Salad

It took mere minutes to fall in love with Laos, that landlocked South-East Asian country still scarred by the Vietnam War. Overshadowed by its immediate neighbours, China and Burma to the north, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west, it’s one of the world’s few remaining Communist states. Not that this bothers the residents, who are some of the most open and hospitable people I’ve ever met. Vientiane has to be the most laid-back capital in the world. Even the t