There's no Pun about it.

In Laos there's a dish called "Pun" it means--lettuce wraps. This is a fun, light, and cool dish to eat on a warm day. You can put just about any vegetables and herbs on your Pun. The trick is you need to have these main ingredients. Lettuce of course, a sweet dipping sauce, and vermicelli rice noodles. Then you can mix those main ingredients with just about any varieties of herbs, vegetables, and a protein dish (meat, tofu, fish..etc.). Today I've made stir-fry beef and eggrolls. I've also made a vegetarian Pun as well with stir-fry Tofu.

For the stir-fry beef you'd want:
1/2 lb. beef
1 TBS Mirin
1 TBS Oystersuace
2 Garlic

1. Thinly slice the beef and marinate it with Mirin, oyster sauce, and garlic.
(If you don't have Mirin you can use 1/2 TBS sugar)
2. Then on a hot frying pan fry the beef. On high heat until done.
For the vegetarian version replace the meat with tofu. Also replace the oyster sauce with either vegetarian oyster flavored sauce or dark soy sauce.

This Pun has sweet dipping sauce called "Nam Jeem" with grounded roast peanuts, I will post recipe at a later date. The sauce is surrounded with stir-fry beefs, eggrolls (I'll post recipe later), Vietnamese cilantro, regular cilantros, mints, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, and cooked rice vermicelli noodles. Of course this dish is called Pun so it won't be complete without lettuce to wrap up all the ingredients!
**Herbs and lettuces are from our backyard garden**

The proper way to eat it is to take a bite size piece of lettuce leaf. Pile in small bits of all the ingredients on top of it. Then wrap it up and dip it into the sauce and Enjoy!


For those who are lazy like my Husband. You could mix them all together and pour the sauce over the dish. This would be something similar to the Vietnamese version of Bun (pounced: boon).

For those vegetarian we have stir-fried tofu that we've marinated in our mirin, garlic, and dark soy sauce. My son does not like the sweet sauce that I made for this dish, because its got fish sauce in it. So he just eat it like it is now with no sauce. Still yummy!