Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Som Tam - Thai Papaya Salad

I have heard of this dish for a long time ...saw it numerous time while watching Channel 703 at Astro ...and saw it in my Thai cookbook ...but never tasted it myself ...until last Sunday!


it was marvelous - a hint of hot and spicy, a bit sourish ...and some crunchy papaya, tomatoes and peanuts ...and it is supposed to be eaten with raw cabbage, and raw long beans ...and with a choice of plain bee hoon or sticky rice ...i chose the former ...

very plain ....but when you combined it with som tum, it becames really flavourful ....loves it!!!!

I ended up having som tum again the night before we left Bangkok ...this time I bought it from a street vendor in from of the Victory Monument Station ...about 5 minutes walk from our hotel ...it was, again, really tasty!


this is where i bought it ...only 25 baht ...that is a really huge mortar ...where they pounded the papaya and all the ingredients all at once without spilling anything out in a messy manner ...perhaps I should get this type of mortar and pestle in order to make great papaya salad ...emmm???

3 comments:

Liz Duan said...

Jin...bring me there...sedap nya.....benci aku

Ejin said...

kah kah kah ....ngko esok nak ke HK, cakap banyak plak! apalah sangat Bangkok dibanding ngan HK ...

fendifid said...

Memang sedap...mesti sesedap kerabu mangga chef fid yang meletops.