Comments on: Thai Food Recipe: Som Tam Bla Rah! http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/ Thai food recipes and cooking blog from authentic Thailand cook with instructions, photos, videos, and stories. Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong, Tom Kha Gai, desserts and more! Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Joy http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Joy Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:08:33 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-519 Hi Macie, Thank you for commenting! I wish I could tell you where to go - maybe someone will write in and tell you. I live in Thailand - have not been to usa. Glad you enjoy my recipes! :) Joy Hi Macie,

Thank you for commenting! I wish I could tell you where to go – maybe someone will write in and tell you. I live in Thailand – have not been to usa. Glad you enjoy my recipes!
:) Joy

]]> By: MACIE http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-518 MACIE Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:53:39 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-518 HI JOY.. I WAS WONDERING IF I CAN GET THE FERMENTED CRAB AND FERMENTED FISH JUICE AT THE STORE BECAUSE I LOVE TO EAT PAPAYA SALAD BUT I THINK I AM MISSING THOSE TWO INGREDIENTS IN MY SALAD..CAN U PLEASE LINK ME TO A STORE..I LIVED IN SACRAMENTO..THANKS FOR HAVING A GREAT RECIPES HERE.. HI JOY..

I WAS WONDERING IF I CAN GET THE FERMENTED CRAB AND FERMENTED FISH JUICE AT THE STORE BECAUSE I LOVE TO EAT PAPAYA SALAD BUT I THINK I AM MISSING THOSE TWO INGREDIENTS IN MY SALAD..CAN U PLEASE LINK ME TO A STORE..I LIVED IN SACRAMENTO..THANKS FOR HAVING A GREAT RECIPES HERE..

]]> By: Joy http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Joy Sun, 31 May 2009 16:31:25 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-428 Hi Xina, Thank you for writing me. Som tam is made by using a heavy knife and holding the unripe papaya in left hand while swinging the heavy knife with right hand long-ways and making 1/2 inch cuts in it over and over and over... then, shaving those cuts off like peeling a carrot with a knife... Turn to a new side and repeat... hope you can understand that! :) Good luck! :P Joy Hi Xina,

Thank you for writing me. Som tam is made by using a heavy knife and holding the unripe papaya in left hand while swinging the heavy knife with right hand long-ways and making 1/2 inch cuts in it over and over and over… then, shaving those cuts off like peeling a carrot with a knife…

Turn to a new side and repeat… hope you can understand that!
:) Good luck! :P Joy

]]> By: Xina http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Xina Sun, 31 May 2009 11:44:20 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-427 Joy - I am so happy to have found your website! I LOVE SOM TAM! From the first moment I tasted it I hunted down the ladies and the carts that the salad comes from. Now back at home in the UK, and Australia I'm always on the lookout for green papayas. Lucky day when I find one. Now, may I please ask: what is your technique for preparing it? I have been using a big chopper and being really fed up by the end of the whole chopping process (until I taste it of course). Any tips please? or any machines to help? Joy – I am so happy to have found your website! I LOVE SOM TAM! From the first moment I tasted it I hunted down the ladies and the carts that the salad comes from. Now back at home in the UK, and Australia I’m always on the lookout for green papayas. Lucky day when I find one. Now, may I please ask: what is your technique for preparing it? I have been using a big chopper and being really fed up by the end of the whole chopping process (until I taste it of course). Any tips please? or any machines to help?

]]> By: Drasties - Nou breekt me de klomp. http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Drasties - Nou breekt me de klomp. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:34:17 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-124 [...] you fancy yourself a cook then you can find a very good Som Tam recipe over at Joy’s Thai Food as well as many other authentic Thai dishes by an authentic Thai [...] [...] you fancy yourself a cook then you can find a very good Som Tam recipe over at Joy’s Thai Food as well as many other authentic Thai dishes by an authentic Thai [...]

]]> By: Som Tam Spicy Papaya Salad | Thailand Land of Smiles http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Som Tam Spicy Papaya Salad | Thailand Land of Smiles Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:55:14 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-120 [...] you fancy yourself a cook then you can find a very good Som Tam recipe over at Joy’s Thai Food as well as many other authentic Thai dishes by an authentic Thai lady. Related [...] [...] you fancy yourself a cook then you can find a very good Som Tam recipe over at Joy’s Thai Food as well as many other authentic Thai dishes by an authentic Thai lady. Related [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.joysthaifood.com/spicy/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/comment-page-1/#comment-104 admin Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:33:54 +0000 http://www.joysthaifood.com/2007/01/thai-food-recipe-som-tam-bla-rah/#comment-104 Som Tam Bla Rah (blara, plara, pla rah) is an amazing dish that is addictive after a short time. If you like hot spicy chili dishes and you also like sour, this is the perfect Thai food dish. You just need to get used to eating fermented fish sauce, which I got over by the second time I ate som tam bla ra. Most western people can't eat it but if you come to Thailand and you can eat it - the Thais' will adopt you as one of their own. Don't worry, even most Thais can't eat it very spicy - it can be TOO MUCH! If you try it - make sure you say "mai pedt" or, (my pet) which means not spicy. They will still use a couple chilis and it will still be spicy - but you won't die from it. In Isaan - the Northeast where Joy is from they grab a handful of super spicy, large red and green chilis. There are 15 or more peppers. If you can eat that, you ARE Thai. I can eat half a meal of it - but need to switch to something cooler for the 2nd half of the meal. Still - I find myself sneaking some more bites at the end of the meal. Som tam plara IS addictive. No doubt! - Vern, Joy's husband Som Tam Bla Rah (blara, plara, pla rah) is an amazing dish that is addictive after a short time. If you like hot spicy chili dishes and you also like sour, this is the perfect Thai food dish. You just need to get used to eating fermented fish sauce, which I got over by the second time I ate som tam bla ra. Most western people can’t eat it but if you come to Thailand and you can eat it – the Thais’ will adopt you as one of their own. Don’t worry, even most Thais can’t eat it very spicy – it can be TOO MUCH! If you try it – make sure you say “mai pedt” or, (my pet) which means not spicy. They will still use a couple chilis and it will still be spicy – but you won’t die from it. In Isaan – the Northeast where Joy is from they grab a handful of super spicy, large red and green chilis. There are 15 or more peppers. If you can eat that, you ARE Thai. I can eat half a meal of it – but need to switch to something cooler for the 2nd half of the meal. Still – I find myself sneaking some more bites at the end of the meal. Som tam plara IS addictive. No doubt! – Vern, Joy’s husband

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