Mom’s Interactive Lettuce Wraps

My mom’s salad is an International Market icon. Despite being on my mom’s secret menu (a selection of unabashedly Thai dishes my mom offered only to customers in-the-know), people all over Nashville discovered this salad and whispered about it to friends and neighbors alike. Like a salad shaman, I remember my mom guiding every participant in the art of eating this salad, first insisting that everyone wash their hands before instructing diners to “put only one of everything into the leaf, th