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#5 and #6 · Khmer and Lao
Some of my favorite meals along the Mekong last year were in Cambodia and Laos. This menu took more testing than anything I've cooked for these dinners. The amok went through more than five versions before it set the way it should.
#4 · Malaysian
I grew up partly in Malaysia, and if I could only keep one cuisine it would be this one. We'd get nasi lemak wrapped in banana leaves from street vendors, and we'd have laksa even on scorching hot days.
#2 and #3 · Burmese
These are some of my favorite Burmese classics. We served the same menu on two Saturdays a week apart: tea leaf salad mixed at the table, a slow beef curry with coconut rice, Shan noodles in their own bowls, and palm sugar dumplings to finish.
#1 · Thai and Vietnamese
This was the first Not Too Sweet dinner. I'd recently come back from a solo trip through Southeast Asia, and the menu was a handful of my favorite things I ate there.