Green papaya salad is a spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya. It is of Lao originbut it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia. Locally known in Cambodia as bok l'hong pronounced in Laos as tam som or the more specific name tam maak hoong in Thailand as som tam and in Vietnam as goi du du. Som tam, the Thai variation, was listed at number 46 on World's 50 most delicious foods compiled by CNN Go in 2011