Laotian uses a lot of the same ingredients as Thai. I've never had it, but I'd expect it's similar.
Me, I probably eat Asian food more often than not. For one, it's what I eat over 90% of the time when I visit Ari's parents (whom she lives with again). For another, I cook Thai food more than any other type of cuisine, and I'll cook Japanese food some of the rest of the time (especially lately)…
However, Renoard, your statement seems to me to be off the mark (except for the bit about "sharing" the food—that's dead on for home cooking eaten with chopsticks, if you mean everyone using their chopsticks to serve themselves from big bowls/plates.)
When we eat at Ari's, for example, we eat mostly stir-fries (at least 80% of what we eat are stir-fries, which almost always contain a meat and 1+ vegetable), and most of the rest is either BBQ or soup. (I should add that we only very rarely eat the stir-fries over noodles. Most of the time it's on rice, and that's certainly true for Thai food, as well. However, her family frequently find that noodles, potatoes, and even bread make perfectly acceptable substitutes for rice. It drives me crazy.)
And salads? I don't think the Chinese really have such a thing, and Thai salads are nothing like Western salads.
