Papaya Pok Pok

The popular papaya salad, a delicious dish, is ubiquitous in Northern Thai cuisine. Almost every vendor, open air market and restaurant serves papaya salad, and if not, they will direct you to the nearest place regardless of where you live. Anywhere in Northern Thailand!

or known by foreigners as ‘Papaya Pok Pok’ due to the sound of preparing it with a pestle and mortar. Papaya Salad is a deliciously crunchy salad made with green beans, tomatoes, dried shrimp, garlic, fresh lime juice, Thai bird poop, chili, carrots, roasted peanuts and green (uncooked) fruits and Julian-style papaya (paw). among locals and foreigners Therefore, there are fresh food vendors selling papaya salad in every market. Either open air or indoor during the day or night

Papaya salad ingredients include papaya, pickled crab, eggplant, tomato, lime, chili, garlic and fermented fish.

Half the fun of papaya salad is watching it cook! The proper nickname is ‘Papaya Pok Deng’ comes from the sound of pestle and mortar pounding on whole cloves of garlic, chili, palm sugar and tamarind juice. and other spices, Asian food

The use of fermented fish sauce in this dish is a deeply ingrained habit in Thai cooking. And papaya salad is inevitable with this addition. So it may take some time to envelops your taste buds with its pungent aroma. Behind the stigma of the marinated fish sauce lies a fresh flavor. Incredibly fizzy and spicy with a crunchy texture that invites you to taste Which is synonymous with the flavors of Asian cuisine.

Papaya salad served with rice noodles and vegetable salad Decorated with Thai food ingredients.

In addition to Thailand Thai papaya salad is also popular in many countries such as Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Japan and America where some ingredients have been adapted to suit the tastes of people in each country. But the taste and main ingredients still follow the authentic Thai papaya salad recipe from Thailand anyway. Therefore, Thai papaya salad is a unique food symbol of Thailand that many people know and respect from different countries of the world.

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