Som Tum

Green papaya salad pounded in a large mortar with garlic, bird's-eye chilli, palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, dried shrimp, peanut, tomato, and long bean. The Isan dish at its most assertive: fierce chilli, sharp lime, salty fish sauce, sweet palm sugar, all crushed together so the flavours penetrate the green papaya. The four-axis Thai balance turned up to high.