The first time I had La Lot was 3 weeks ago. There is a food vendor at the Honolulu Farmer’s Market called, “The Pig and the Lady” – a Vietnamese street food pop up restaurant. I was browsing around and saw them selling these delicious looking beef & pork patties wrapped in what was described as Betel leaf. My first thought was, what is a Betel leaf? I am a real sucker when it comes to trying new foods so of course I had to buy some. It was delicious. The leaves have a nice peppery taste to them that went really well with the lemongrass in the meat. I ended up going back a total of 5 times to satisfy my fix and to share my discovery with my husband. So anyways I was super determined to learn how to make them myself….but had one issue.. where in the world do you buy betel leaves?
