Because of our desire to stay healthy and fit, eating fruit or vegetable salad is one of our choices to keep in shape. If you love Asian cuisines, specifically Thai food, it is worth trying to taste Thai Salads.

There are many good reasons why you should try Thai Salads and include them in your diet. The one and foremost reason are the ingredients are always fresh and prepared delicately. It is why many tourists dream of spending their staycation in the Kingdom of Thailand.

Do you want to expand your must-try Thai Salads’ list? Then you are in for a treat.

Yum Woon Sen Goong (bean thread noodles salad)

It is among the well-known Thai Salads not only in its motherland but also outside the country. The dish comprises peanuts (which makes it crunchy), cilantro, and celery (which gives freshness to the serving). It also has dried shrimp (makes it salty), and meat of your choice (pork/chicken). If you are a vegetarian, you can add tofu or shrimp as a meat’s alternative.

Thai Salads: Som Tum Thai (Green Papaya Salad)

Green papaya salad is eaten in Thailand and its neighboring countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, proving that this salad is famous in the group of Thai Salads. If you are into spicy food, you can add Som Tum Thai to your list of must-try dishes.

Som Tom Polomai (Spicy Mixed Fruit Salad)

Thailand has an abundant supply of fruits, so it’s no wonder if they include mixed fruit salad in Thai Salads. You can make this delicious, sweet, sour, and spicy salad with any available fruits in your fridge. If you want your salad to be more piquant, then you can spice it up with more chili, but if not, just leave it according to your taste.

Phla Kung (Thai Prawn Salad)

It is another kind of spicy salad in the group of Thai Salads that composes kaffir limes leaves, mint leaves, cilantro, lemongrass stalks, shallots, and prawns, sprinkled with chili-lime flavoring. Another variation of this salad is using other kinds of seafood depending on its availability or your choice.

Thai Salads: Yum Tua Plu (Wing Bean Salad)

This central salad comprises wing beans (green beans or snap peas are a great replacement) with coconut milk, toasty brown coconut, chili paste, cashew nuts, palm sugar, and tamarind. Because this savory vegetable is nourishing, it is not surprising to make a salad out of it.

Thai Salads: Larb

Larb is a kind of Lao meat salad and is considered the unofficial dish of Laos. People in the Isan region (a part of Thailand) eat this salad since most of its inhabitants are of Laos ethnicity. To prepare this dish, you need to have these ingredients: minced meat like chicken, duck, pork, beef, fish, and lime juice or fish sauce. You can also add different kinds of vegetables to make it healthier and wrap the meat with lettuce before devouring it.

Yam Kun Chiang (Spicy Chinese Sausage Salad)

This tasty, sweet, fatty, and salty salad, which originated from China, is made from crunchy fried and dried pork sausage, so pork lovers enjoy this salad. You can add cucumber, celery, shallots, lime, and chili to modify the dish’s fattiness.

Cucumber Salad

One of the simplest and easiest Thai Salads to make is the cucumber salad. You only need cucumber, green onion, shallots, cilantro, peanuts, fish sauce, soy, sugar-mix them, and voila! You have a mouth-watering salad.

Tam Khanun (Spicy Jackfruit Salad)

One of the classic Thai Salads from the Northern part of Thailand is Tam Khanun. Jackfruit is highly nutritious, so it is excellent to eat this as a salad.

The ingredients you need for this salad are garlic, curry paste, kaffir lime leaves, pork, and young jackfruit.

Yum Naem Kao Tod (Rice and Sausage Salad)

Yum Naem Kao Tod is the most requested dish among Thai salads because it is served in restaurants outside Thailand but is considered street food in its native land. It composes of crispy fried rice bowls, fermented sausage, and a bunch of herbs.

Whether you want to eat healthy food or just curious about trying something new, eating Thai salads would be an incredible choice!