With Thailand's year-round bounty of vegetables and herbs, spicy salads burgeoning with fresh fare showcase the interplay between seasonal flavours and textures. Amplifying the modest tartness of a Western
herbed vinaigrette, the Thai-style salad dressing employs lime juice, fish sauce, chillies, garlic and palm sugar to create an explosion in your mouth.
Slivers of taling- piing, a green fruit, impart a mellow sour tang in yum plaa salid. Once commonly used in many traditional Thai dishes, especially in the south where it is prevalent, taling piing are today only found in private gardens and the kitchens of connoisseurs. Tossed with crispy slices of dried fish, shallots and a mountain of finely sliced lemongrass, the spicy salad is a perfect accompaniment to an ice-cold beer.With the plethora of ahaan waang offering a seductive array of dishes catering to all palates and budgets, you may be tempted to ignore your mother's warnings about how excessive snacking will ruin your appetite for the next proper meal. After all, why resist, you might argue reasonably, when the snack is a meal in itself?
Slivers of taling- piing, a green fruit, impart a mellow sour tang in yum plaa salid. Once commonly used in many traditional Thai dishes, especially in the south where it is prevalent, taling piing are today only found in private gardens and the kitchens of connoisseurs. Tossed with crispy slices of dried fish, shallots and a mountain of finely sliced lemongrass, the spicy salad is a perfect accompaniment to an ice-cold beer.With the plethora of ahaan waang offering a seductive array of dishes catering to all palates and budgets, you may be tempted to ignore your mother's warnings about how excessive snacking will ruin your appetite for the next proper meal. After all, why resist, you might argue reasonably, when the snack is a meal in itself?