Best of Orlando 2014
Food & Drink
Best Papaya Salad
Saigon Noodle & Grill
710 S. Goldenrod Road, 407-658-1967, saigonnoodleandgrill.com
This salad offers a perfect balance of all the things we love about Southeast Asian food – all at once sweet, spicy, salty, crunchy, earthy, herbaceous. A pile of freshly shaved green papaya is topped with carrot, peanuts, mint, basil, dried shrimp and perfectly dressed with a sheen of fish-sauce spiked dressing. Choose your protein topping (though it seems unnecessary with such perfection already in play) – shrimp and pork or shrimp and squid.
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