Mian kam- "Thai tacos"

These are actually nothing like tacos, but I guess the nickname comes from the fact that you're putting stuff inside some type of wrap. This recipe sounds strange, but I promise, it's actually good!

Ingredients:
shredded coconut
purple onion
limes
fresh ginger root
peanuts
brown sugar
salt
lettuce (any kind, as long as it's strong enough to use as a wrap)

1. put the coconut on a cookie sheet and roast in the oven for a few minutes
2. chop up the onion, lime (with the peel still on), and ginger root into small (1cm-ish) cubes.
3. mix brown sugar and water with a small dash of salt, and heat it up on the stove so it sort of carmelizes/thickens.
4. put the coconut, onion, lime, ginger, peanuts, and brown sugar sauce out in separate bowls (you'll want roughly eqivalent amounts of each ingredient), with the lettuce.
5. everyone makes their own "taco" with whatever proportion of ingredients they want. Take a piece of lettuce, add all the solid ingredients, drizzle a little of the sauce over it, wrap it up, and eat it! It's an odd combination of ingredients, but somehow they all combine nicely for a very nice flavor.