Somtum (aka Papaya Salad) is one of the dishes that every Thai and almost every “farang” (Westerner) I know in Chiang Mai love. Somtum is found EVERYWHERE from street stalls to restaurants.
This is a spicy salad made from ingredients such as shreds of unripe papaya, tomato, long beans, peanuts, garlic, etc. These are all pounded [...]
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Thai Food File - Somtum (Papaya Salad)
Street Eats - Sunday Walking Street
Whist not a restaurant as such, Sunday Walking Street (Sunday evening street market) is a great place to go to sample local street food and delicacies, and the prices are dirt cheap too!
It’s a lot of fun browsing the hundreds (may be thousands?) of stalls selling all manners of goods and handicrafts, often handmade by [...]
