Laos
region / region-laos
ラオス
Laos. It covers the taste term khom and observations of cuisine.
Photographs (captions in Japanese)
ラオス・ルアンパバーン県、ノーンキアウ(Nong Khiaw)村近郊の山岳と農地の景観。ラオスを代表する地域景観の写真。
現地観測写っているもの: 該当なし（地域景観）部位・状態: 山間の農村景観
写真: Ekrem Canli (HylgeriaK)／ CC BY-SA 4.0／ 原画像／ 台帳の原画像
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被写体の確認: 原典の記載による同定。
掲載画像: リサイズ・トリミング・色調変更なし。Wikimedia Commons のオリジナル画像をそのまま使用。 表示用には幅1200px上限のWebPを配信し、台帳の原画像は上のリンクから確認できます。
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Reading the bitterness
Laos was the setting for a study of how words for bitterness are used in practice. In a survey that collected responses from Lao speakers living around Vientiane while presenting actual taste stimuli, khom3 was recorded as a basic taste term corresponding to 「苦い」 (in translation: "bitter"). The number of participants was small, however, and the survey was not large enough to represent dialect differences across the entire Lao-speaking area.
The authors of the same study cited bitter young rattan shoots and dishes containing bitterness of animal origin as examples of Lao cuisine. These descriptions, however, were based on the authors’ own participant observation, and the authors explicitly stated that this was not a systematic investigation. It did not measure how frequently bitterness is used across Lao cuisine as a whole and should be read only as one record.
Sources for this overview
Taste in Two Tongues: A Southeast Asian Study of Semantic Convergence
Checked for this overview: Confirmed the survey finding that recorded khom3 as a basic taste term for bitter. / Confirmed the participant-observation description that cited bitter young rattan shoots and other culinary examples.
Hypotheses and recipe candidates for this entry are on the Japanese page.
Structured claims — open a section to read each claim's confidence, evidence and limits
Culture (2)
Scope: taste-stimulus presentation to Lao speakers around Vientiane
Note: Retains the paper's own tone-number notation.
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region-laos —has_local_name→ "khom3 ("bitter")"Scope: Participant observation by the authors of a paper on taste vocabulary
Note: The authors explicitly state that this was not a systematic investigation. No estimate is made of frequency across cuisine in general.
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region-laos —is_documented_as_having→ "Examples of dishes containing bitter young rattan shoots or bitterness of animal origin"