This here is an image of ยำà¹à¸¢à¸«à¸™à¸¡ [yam naem] which literally translates to sausage salad. That sounds pretty innocent, but it actually doesn’t contain sausage – at least not in the western sense. The main ingredient is pig skin (boiled, I believe). Chewy, thick, julienned, tasteless pig skin. The saving grace is the other main ingredient, ข้าวทà¸à¸” [khao tawt], is just a seasoned, deep fried ball of rice which is broken up and mixed in.
All in all, it tastes pretty good if you can avoid the strips of skin. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it. Most of those things that look like onions in the image are actually not onions. I have ordered this before without the pig skin. Of course the vendor looks at me like I’m some sort of madman, doing something akin to ordering a hamburger without the burger. Oh well, at least that way I’ll eat it all.
Pig skin salad. Yum!
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