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The most popular salad of Thailand and Laos is the Green Papaya salad. On the first bite, your tongue should taste extreme heat, salt, and sour all at once. The taste is invigorating!

Ingredients:

1-4 chilies

1 garlic clove

3 cups shredded green papaya

1/2 cup sliced tomatoes

1 tablespoon fish sauce

1 tablespoon shrimp paste

3 tablespoons squeezed lime

1 tablespoon sugar (optional)

2 tablespoons dried shrimp (optional)

In a mortar and pestle, crush chilies and garlic until they are separated. Add the papaya and the remaining ingredients into the mortar. Using the pestle to crush and a tablespoon to stir, mix all the ingredients in the mortar. When the sugar and shrimp paste are dissolved the papaya salad is ready to be served. Toss the papaya salad over rice noodles and sprinkle some toasted peanuts on top to make this salad a meal.

Watch a video on how to shred a green papaya with just a knife. Also watch a video on how to make the papaya salad on my blog at www.thai-laos-food.blogspot.com. The video shows the traditional method. Some Thai / Lao restaurants mix all the ingredients in a large bowl using chopsticks. In my opinion, for an authentic texture, the tomatoes need to be crushed.

Manivan Larprom, a Thai / Lao girl, on a mission to teach, through her video blog, how anyone can cook Thai / Lao food.

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The Thai Lao Seafood Salad dish is commonly known as ‘Yum Talay’. When making this dish, do not overcook the seafood which will result to a chewy and rubbery texture. The best way to learn how to make the Thai Lao Seafood Salad is to watch the video at the website listed below.

Recipe for the Thai / Lao Seafood Salad:
1 cup fresh or frozen squid or cuttlefish

1 cup fresh or frozen shrimp

1 cup fresh or frozen mussels

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