Tube Tues: Green papaya salad

I have a confession to make: I call myself adventurous when it comes to food, but I have a pretty traditional Chinese palate when it comes to a liking to drinking warm water and preference for hot foods over cold. However, now that the weather is getting warmer, I do crave a nice savoury salad now and then.

I like my salads pretty hearty, with meat and/or savoury sauces, like the flavours of Cobb salad, Caesar salad, Nicoise salad, or something with smoked meats. Lately, I've been craving Thai green papaya salad, after watching Triple D and seeing it made at Pok Pok in Portland. I took to the Internets to find a bunch of videos to compare, and I found this to be the most entertaining and impressive, although you need to have watched others to get a sense of what the heck the lady is putting into the salad (limes, garlic, chili, palm sugar, fish sauce, dried shrimps and/or dried crab, shredded green papaya, tomatoes, and peanuts -- I think that's it).

Nothing beats a video of food made in the most raw and authentic surroundings.

Not to insult your intelligence (I didn't know this beforehand, so I thought I'd share), but green papaya is just an unripe papaya, not a different variety.