Bright, colourful plate of Thai salad or Yam Yai.

Fresh, crisp and so 'Summer' :D



Thai salad or Yam Yai as its known to local Thais, consist of mix bag of fresh crunchy greens like Lebanese cucumber, crisp cos lettuce, sweet and slightly tart cherry tomatoes, sweet red capsicum and spinach.

Steam vegetable like broccoli or cauliflower (not included) are added to the colourful plate.
Cubed beancurd as well as eggs are added to, as the source of protein.
{Again I omit egg... not by choice, just because I did a hasty and sloppy job!!! The eggs looked worst than the moon crater!!}

Talking about moon...
Look outside your window ....there is a beautiful new moon in the sky tonight :D


Fly me to the moon

Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on

A-Jupiter and Mars
~ Frank Sinatra

And the peanut dressing...is just perfect to go with this colourful summer-y Thai salad.
Its creamy, rich, sweet, salty and sour-ish... the 3 main taste of any Thai food.

The only ingredients that was missing in the dressing was chilli!

A little note when making the dressing :
You can either halved the amount of peanuts in the list below or increase the amount of sugar, salt and vinegar as you add more water.

What we are looking for ~ is NOT a thick dressing that is as thick as satay sauce, but we are after salad dressing, that is quite runny / fluidity.

My apologies to readers who are allergic to peanuts... I have not tried any other nuts, and if I do, I will update this post with a note here.



If I wanted something different from the usual lemon and olive oil dressing, I'd go with this Thai salad. 
It reminds me of home, of another favourite salad of mine, that uses peanut sauce. I love peanuts ( but I hate what it does to my body after...)

Check out my nostalgic post on Malaysian-Indian salad or known as Pasembur to the locals.
Till then... By the way its last day of summer... woohoo :D (and I am another year older tomorrow....)