"Neua Yang Nam Tok" or Beef Waterfall

Its finally posted!! Sorry it took so long but now we can all enjoy it. This is one of our favorite southeast Asian dishes. Even the kids have started to get use to it. Thankfully we have many more years to get their taste buds use to it. :) I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. You can serve this warm or cold. Cambodians typically serve it cold but restaurants serve it warm. Tweak the recipe to your liking. This is the way Ming Sohpa - Wades Cambodian mission mom taught me how to make it. Everything is approximate, since she taught me to make it without measuring.

 3-4 servings (my kids don't eat a whole lot)

Marinade Ingredients:

• 4 teaspoons soy sauce
• 4 teaspoons sugar – Cambodians use palm sugar
• 3 cloves garlic, sliced thinly
• 3 Thai chili peppers, cut into very small pieces
• juice from 2 limes

Salad Ingredients: 

• Beef – I use ½ to ¾ a round steak
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• juice from 2 limes
• 1/3 to ½ small red onion, sliced very thinly
• ½ - 3/4 cup cilantro, chopped
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons toasted rice (get your wok fairly hot, and add a couple of tablespoons of uncooked jasmine rice. stir until the rice starts to turn golden brown. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Grind to a fairly coarse powder in a mortar and pestle or food processor)- if your in a pinch for time you can leave the toasted rice out,but its a fun texture & crunch. 
• 1/2 teaspoon chili flakes – serve kids 1^st (also we prefer fresh Thai chillies, when we have them)

Instructions: 

1. Mix marinade ingredients and marinate beef for at least 3 hours to overnight. (you can skip the marinade all together but if you have time it makes a HUGE difference.
2. Grill beef over medium high heat until it's done.  Let rest for a few minutes and then slice against the grain of the meat into very thin slices.
3. Combine the sliced beef with all of the other ingredients.  Adjust the amount of herbs and spices to your tastes.  The salad should be equally salty, sour, and hot.  Some restaurants serve it  with cabbage, cucumber, mint, or Thai basil. We prefer it with cucumber and rice on the side. Even though this is well know as a Thai dish the Cambodians make it the same way except when it is done they wrap it in lettuce leaves and eat it ( kinda like an Asian taco), try it its fun.

Enjoy!

-Cindy