Chili-rubbed shrimp are served with a fresh, lively black bean and mango salad.

Green mangoes can be used in mango salad with fish sauce and dried shrimp.

And Thanying offers one of the very best versions of the classic green mango salad.

There's nothing to find fault with in a simple pineapple and mango salad or in the fresh strawberries with mascarpone cream.

Two could dine on mango salad, succulent green chicken curry and Thai beer for $30.

Laicram, with its delicious green mango salads and ginger chicken, has moderate prices: about $15 for two without wine.

Fresh fish is available fried or steamed with many authentic sauce preparations, including over a green mango salad (pla ma moung, $15.45).

Gracing the menu are Greek dishes, massaman curries and a kicking spicy catfish and mango salad.

Samples of fiery jerk chicken were hard by mango three-bean salad, raisin-croissant triangles and chutney-battered squid rings.

Shrimp and mango salad ($8 a half pound) was a relief in that it was merely tasteless.