Bamboo shoot salad
Bamboo shoot salad is a traditional Lao / Northeastern Thai dish.
It is a popular dish, often sold alongside somtam in Thailand, and features sour, salty and hot tastes from lime, fish sauce, dried chilli and toasted rice. In addition to bamboo shoots, typical ingredients also include local herbs such as yanang, lemongrass and phak phaeo. It is traditionally eaten with warm sticky rice and grilled chicken.
In Thailand, considerable confusion exists regarding the name of the dish, as sup, a Lao word describing this kind of spicy salad dish, is a homophone of the loanword for soup. The name of the dish is often misspelled as ซุปหน่อไม้, which would mean "bamboo-shoot soup".