Cultured Palate: Dishes from Thailand
| May 3, 2017
Som Tam
Many people are familiar with som tam from ordering this dish at North American Thai restaurants, where it’s often called green papaya salad. What a lot of people don’t know is that som tam actually encompasses more than just salad with green papayas. Som tam is any salad of fresh ingredients where the dressing is made in a mortar, then the other ingredients are added into the mortar and pounded aggressively until they’re mixed. Som tam is native to northern Thailand, and it’s meant to make use of seasonal ingredients. Green papaya som tam is delicious, but there are other versions made with pomelo, santol, corn, or beans that are also tasty.
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