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Khao Yum

📍 New York Thai $$

at Ugly Baby

"Khao yum — Southern Thai rice salad — at Ugly Baby is the dish that makes this restaurant essential for Thai food obsessives. Toasted coconut, dried shrimp, raw vegetables, and rice dressed in a fermented fish and turmeric dressing. The texture contrasts are extraordinary and the fermented fish element gives it a funk that makes you reach for another bite."

— Expert, 93/100 credibility
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Expert 93/100

"Khao yum — Southern Thai rice salad — at Ugly Baby is the dish that makes this restaurant essential for Thai food obsessives. Toasted coconut, dried shrimp, raw vegetables, and rice dressed in a fermented fish and turmeric dressing. The texture contrasts are extraordinary and the fermented fish element gives it a funk that makes you reach for another bite."