As a traveler, one of things to do while exploring new foreign countries is trying local meals. Like many Asian countries’ dishes which are popular all over the world with the combination of aromatic spices, appearance and appetizing flavour, Thai food is also well-known of its own outstanding healthy ingredients in food and snack meals.
Before you decide to choose where to stay, you may would like to consider about where to eat in bangkok and their neighborhood. Many guest houses and hostels in Bangkok are in the area nearby Bangkok attractions. Not only in the local Bangkok markets, Bangkok restaurants or Bangkok shopping malls, you’ll find Thai food almost everywhere you go. Sooner you’ll get used to be fascinated by Thai Street food carts and stalls which is anything you can eat from appetizer to dessert menu and fresh fruits on the Bangkok streets. One of Thai food that you must try is Somtum. Thais call Somtum as one dish of Yum or Thai dressed salad types. It is a salad dish of fresh vegetable with different main ingredients.
Here at Everyday Bangkok Hostel, we can enjoy a moment of learning how to cook Somtum; Green papaya salad with flavor of spicy-sweet-sour dressing. It seems to be difficult to cook but it is not that hard. If you can cook some salad, you can cook Somtum too.
These following lists are all we need for a simply tasty dish of Somtum.
Ingredients per 1 serving
- Shredded green unripe papaya 1 cup
- Garlic, peeled cloves few small cloves
- Chili peppers more chilies , more spicy
- Limes 1-2 limes
- Long beans, chopped into 1 inch long piece ½ cup
- Tomatoes few tomatoes
- Dried shrimp 1 tablespoon
- Roasted peanuts 1 tablespoon
Seasoning for dressing
- Fish sauce
- Palm sugar
- Tamarind juice
Preparation
- We begin with putting some garlic cloves and chili peppers into the mortar and pound it with a pestle until you get the paste of garlic and chili.
- Add some palm sugar, tamarind juice, fish sauce and some pieces of sliced lime. Stir the mixture together, you can adjust the seasoning for your favourite taste.
- Then, add long beans, shredded papaya and dried shrimp. Pound them more to blend the ingredients with dressing. Stir it and taste the flavor.
- Next, cut tomatoes into bite-sized wedges. Add them into the mortar and mix with the rest of salad. Pound tomato just to bruise it gently.
- Finally, ladle the salad into the a serving plate. Scatter some roasted peanut over it. Now, your tasty Somtum is ready to serve.
Not only Somtum, this hostel will offer you how to cook Padthai. This tasty stir-fried rice noodle dish is one of the most recommended menu by our guests.
Unlike many hostels in Bangkok, Everyday Bangkok Hostel will offer you guys backpackers with a feeling of ‘ make yourself at home’ where we can enjoy learning more about Thai daily-life. Let see what’s in our place at Everyday Bangkok Hostel .
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