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Baja California, Mexico

Langosta Puerto Nuevo

The Baja lobster of Puerto Nuevo, split, grilled, and served with warm tortillas, rice, beans, and melted butter.

Argentina

Langostinos Patagónicos

Patagonian prawns from the cold southern Atlantic, grilled, sautéed, or boiled. A regional delicacy, prized for their sweet, firm flesh, served with garlic butter.

Comoros

Langouste Grillée

Spiny lobster grilled over charcoal and finished with citrus, chili and island spices.

Comoros

Langouste à la Vanille

South African spiny lobster boiled in a rich vanilla sauce with coconut milk, lemon juice, garlic paste, chili powder, and ginger; served on a bed of greens; the national dish of Comoros and a showcase of the 'Perfume Islands' reputation.

Grand Est, France

Langres

Langres is a named French cheese associated with Grand Est, recognized for its own rind, aging, and milk character.

Indonesia

Langsat

Langsat is a small tropical fruit with translucent, sweet-tart segments around bitter seeds.

China

Lanzhou Beef Noodles

兰州拉面

Hand-pulled wheat noodles in a clear beef broth clarified for hours, with thin beef slices, white radish, coriander and chilli oil.

Vientiane, Laos

Lao Baguette Sandwich

ເຂົ້າຈີ່ປາເຕ້

Crisp rice-flour baguette split and filled with pâté, Lao sausage, pickled carrot and daikon, coriander, chilli and a sweet-savoury sauce.

Laos

Lao Beef Jerky

ຊີ້ນແຫ້ງ

Strips of beef or buffalo marinated in fish sauce, sugar and chilli, sun-dried and then flash-fried before serving.

Laos

Lao Coffee

ກາເຟລາວ

Bolaven Plateau coffee brewed strong through a cloth filter and poured over sweetened condensed milk, served hot or over ice.

Laos

Lao Curry

ແກງກະລີ

Mild yellow curry of chicken or beef with potato and coconut milk, seasoned with turmeric and dried spice rather than fresh chilli paste.

Laos

Lao Fresh Spring Rolls

ຢໍດິບ

Rice paper rolled around vermicelli, prawn, lettuce and herbs, served with a peanut or sweet-sour dipping sauce.

Laos

Lao Fried Spring Rolls

ຢໍຈືນ

Pork and glass noodle filling rolled in rice paper and deep-fried, wrapped in lettuce with herbs before dipping.

China

Lao Gan Ma Chilli Crisp

老干妈

A jar of chilli flakes, fermented soy bean and preserved vegetable suspended in oil, with the founder's photograph on every label.

Laos

Lao Green Papaya Salad

ຕໍາໝາກຫຸ່ງ

Shredded green papaya pounded in a clay mortar with padaek, lime, garlic, chilli, tomato and long bean, less sweet and far more pungent than its Thai cousin.

Laos

Lao Grilled Chicken

ປີ້ງໄກ່

Butterflied chicken marinated in garlic, coriander root, black pepper and fish sauce, pressed in a split bamboo clamp and grilled slowly over coals.

Laos

Lao Meatballs

ລູກຊີ້ນ

Bouncy beef or pork balls threaded on skewers, grilled or boiled and served with a sweet chilli dip.

Luang Prabang, Laos

Lao Watercress

ຜັກນໍ້າ

River watercress grown in cold spring water in the north, eaten raw in salads or blanched alongside dips.

North Macedonia

Lapa

Лапа

Cornmeal or flour cooked to a loose porridge with cheese and butter stirred through, eaten in the mountains for breakfast.

Belgium

Lapin à la Kriek

Konijn met kriek

Lapin à la Kriek braises rabbit in tart cherry lambic until the meat is tender.

Tournai, Belgium

Lapin à la Tournaisienne

Lapin à la Tournaisienne is a Tournai rabbit stew with browned meat and a savoury beer-and-onion sauce.

Tibet, China

Laping (Cold Starch Noodle Salad)

拉皮

Laping, cold mung-bean starch noodles cut into strips and dressed with chilli oil, is a named Tibetan street dish sold from stalls across the plateau.

Suriname

Lapis

Surinamese lapis is a layered spiced cake baked in thin alternating layers until the crumb is dense, moist and darkly aromatic.

North Maluku, Indonesia

Lapis Palaro

Lapis Palaro is North Maluku beef sliced thin, simmered in spices, fried, and served with a thickened cooking-liquor sauce.

Finnish Lapland, Finland

Lapland Cold-Smoked Reindeer

Lapin poron kylmäsavuliha

Cold-smoked reindeer meat from free-grazing reindeer in Lapland, with dark red to black color, delicate smoky flavor.

Vanuatu

Laplap

Tanna Laplap

Laplap is Vanuatu's grated root-crop or breadfruit mixture, combined with coconut and ordinary meat, fish, or vegetables, wrapped in leaves and baked until dense and tender.

Vanuatu

Laplap Sosor

Laplap sosor is a Malekula laplap variation cooked with a hot volcanic stone in the centre, then served with chicken, onion, tomato, and coconut milk.

Norway

Lapskaus

Norwegian meat-and-vegetable stew with potatoes, carrots, and onions; thick, hearty, and comforting.

Romania

Lapte de pasăre

Poached meringue islands floating in vanilla custard, a Romanian dessert whose name means bird's milk.

Isan (Northeastern Thailand), Thailand

Larb

ลาบ

Larb is a minced-meat salad with toasted rice powder, herbs, lime, and chilli, with Lao and Isan Thai styles.

Valais, Switzerland

Lard sec du Valais

Lard sec du Valais is Valais pork belly cured with salt and air-dried until the fat is firm and the meat ruby red.

Tuscany, Italy

Lardo di Colonnata

Tuscan cured pork back fat aged in marble vats with herbs and spices. Melt-in-the-mouth, sliced paper-thin on warm bread.

Bologna, Italy

Lasagne alla Bolognese

Layered fresh egg pasta sheets with ragù bolognese and béchamel, finished with Parmigiano and baked until golden. A Sunday-lunch icon of Emilia-Romagna.

Madagascar

Lasary

Green beans, carrot, cabbage and onion sliced fine and dressed with vinegar and mustard in the highlands, or mango and lemon pickled with chilli on the coast.

Madagascar

Lasary Voatabia

Fresh Malagasy tomato salad with onion, acid and herbs served beside rice and stews.

Slovakia

Laskonky

Two flat, chewy hazelnut or coconut meringues sandwiched with buttercream — the standard box-of-cakes item in a Slovak cukráreň.