For the papaya salad Som Tam Thai, first remove the skin from the papaya, cut in half and scrape out the seeds with a spoon. Finely grate the papaya on a vegetable grater. Cut snake beans into 1 cm long pieces, cut tomatoes into eighths, chop peanuts, remove the skin from garlic cloves. Squeeze the lime.
Grind palm sugar, fish sauce, chili paste, crab tails and garlic together with 1 tablespoon of the papaya strips and 1 tablespoon of beans in a mortar. Mix this paste with the papaya, beans, tomatoes and peanuts and season the Som Tam Thai papaya salad with lime juice.