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  • noun A popular Laotian or Thai spicy diced-meat salad with ground, chopped, or minced meat and vegetables.

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Examples

  • On the table, the larb is beautiful and ballsy: green, purple and fragrant.

    Cooking up holiday memories Tim Hayward 2010

  • I returned to the restaurant a few times to make more of a dent in its lengthy menu, and I can report that the ground chicken salad known as larb gai pulses with mint and cilantro as well as lime, and that green curry with sliced beef and soft Asian eggplant is packed to please a meat eater but not necessarily a heat seeker.

    Tom Sietsema on Bangkok Golden: Thai beyond the buffet, Laotian off the menu Post 2010

  • Then I slice the meat carpaccio thin – minced meat is more usual in a larb, but I do it my teacher's way.

    Cooking up holiday memories Tim Hayward 2010

  • I had the beef larb, tart as tart could be and with just the right level of heat (hot enough to eventually shut down my taste buds).

    Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts nineweaving 2010

  • Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The larb pla korb crispy whole tilapia with shallot, mint, cilantro and chili lime dressing at Zabb Elee.

    Thai With a Twist 2011

  • I had the beef larb, tart as tart could be and with just the right level of heat (hot enough to eventually shut down my taste buds).

    Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts nineweaving 2010

  • He often eats Thai food, including fresh Thai salads like nam tok (a sliced beef dish) and larb (ground meat and vegetables).

    Dangling from hoops and ropes, in tights Christopher Shay 2011

  • Those likes, in a given week, might include anything from hot dogs to Veggie Booty to larb gai to fish eyeballs.

    Hungry Monkey 2009

  • The larb salad features ground meat seasoned with mint, lime, cilantro and scallions.

    Thai With a Twist 2011

  • Those likes, in a given week, might include anything from hot dogs to Veggie Booty to larb gai to fish eyeballs.

    Hungry Monkey 2009

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