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I'm guessing that this dish in Thailand would be called in full "Yam Ruammit Farang", which means mixed vegetable (=Ruammit) salad (=Yam) in a Western style (=Farang) as the sauce seems to be mayonnaise based and as such it would not be Thai.

Could you please correct it, as User:Mattes has certain problems with the Thai language ;-)

It would also be nice, if you could add the name in Thai script. Thx. --hdamm (talk) 14:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

User Mattes, I can only judge this dish from the picture but it seems like a salad made with sliced radish, julienne strips of carrot, some lettuce or perhaps endive, something that seems like strips of chicken and a mayonnaise based dressing. You have now also categorised it as a "piquant salad" but I don't really see that from the ingredients. Perhaps the radish is somewhat piquant or have I been mistaken and are the carrots actually strips of chili pepper?Takeaway (talk) 06:08, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, let's just say it's a salad which is also known in the Thai cuisine which results to a regular western mixed vegetable salad. I'll remove that Thai cuisine cat. now. Your guess with the mayonnaise based dressing is correct. BTW the red veggies are carrots, not chili (that salad was especially made for me during a family visit).

It was not sweet, so I've put piquant salad cat. "certain problems with the Thai language" → I'm "th-0" 8-) --Mattes (talk) 07:00, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

@Takeaway: I've uploaded the sauce for you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/weltenbummler/3374356049/ --Mattes (talk) 07:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, "piquant salads" would not be the correct category either as the word piquant means that something is spicy. Looking up the category "piquant salads" here in Commons, I saw that many more salads (which aren't spicy either) are also in that category so it seems a mis- and overused term. The correct term would be "savoury salads" (as opposed to sweet ones) although it's not a very popular way to phrase what is known to most as just "salad". So "piquant salad" seems to be the only category possible for your salad in Commons.
The name of your salad should actually still be changed to Yum (or yam) Ruammit which means "mixed salad" in Thai. The problem with many Thais is that they somehow relish certain speech impediments, hence the transliteration of the dish you have photographed. ;-)
Did you know that Schweinshax'n are also very popular in Thailand? In Thailand it is called Kha Moo Yerman ("German style pork leg") or Kha Moo Phuket ("Phuket style pork leg" as it supposedly became popular with Thai people there first). The ones in Thailand actually taste better than most made nowadays in Bavaria! Takeaway (talk) 08:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

You're right. I've created Category:Savoury salads. Schweinshax'n as a common dish in Thailand is new to me. Guess, there's a lot to explore in the Thai cuisine. In 2002, I tasted a blood soup... - yummy though (nobody told my about the ingredient until I was done^^). --Mattes (talk) 09:16, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Savoury salads is great! Next time you're in Thailand and someone offers you "Kha Moo Phuket", "Pad Man Farang" and "Pak Kaad Dong Yerman" you'll know that you'll be getting Schweinshax'n, Bratkartoffeln and Sauerkraut! Cheers! Takeaway (talk) 09:33, 22 March 2009 (UTC)