I've been yearning to make this for ages. I used to have a version of it at Chee Peng Palace, a Thai and Laotian restaurant in La Crosse. Unfortunately, it no longer exists. I think they made a beef version, it was called larb, and they served it with this divine purple sticky rice. I haven't perfected the purple sticky rice yet and this was a pork version, but it was pretty darn good. The recipe's below.