Barbecued Lemongrass Skewers

With the notion of kebabs locked in their minds, early spice traders ploughed the seaways west to east, east to west. In each port, the concept of skewered morsels was hungrily shared and evolved. In South East Asia, they morphed into Indonesian sate, Thai satay, Vietnamese nem nuong, and these marvellous Laotian stuffed lemongrass. You create a cage in stems in which to capture sausage-like meat, infusing it with incredible flavour both as it grills and when you eat it messily with your fi