Pad thai (or the rather cooler phat thai, as the official transliteration has it) is a global ambassador for the glories of Thai food; these simple stir-fried rice noodles are almost certainly one of the best-known examples of Thai cuisine worldwide. Expats claim to use it as a bellwether for the quality of a restaurant: if the kitchen gets the pad thai right, they probably know how to cook.
Quite a claim for a dish that's not neither very Thai nor very traditional – the dish's full name, kway teow pad thai, or "stir-fried rice noodles, Thai-style" hints at its probable southern Chinese origins (kway teow apparently means rice noodles in the Hokkien dialect), and it's thought to have been popularised, and possibly invented, by Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram in the 1940s as part of his campaign to foster a sense of national identity.
According to an article in the journal Gastromica, Thais were supposed to unite behind this noodle dish – and unite they did, for good reason. It's quick street food, a little spicy, a little sweet, and utterly delicious. Who would have thought your takeaway favourite had such an interesting history?
Like many apparently simple dishes, pad thai is quick, but not necessarily easy. Indeed, Leela Punyaratabandhu has a whole series on the basics of pad thai on her excellent blog, She Simmers, starting with picking the appropriate pan. So, this is clearly a recipe that deserves some careful attention.
Pad thai (or the rather cooler phat thai, as the official transliteration has it) is a global ambassador for the glories of Thai food; these simple stir-fried rice noodles are almost certainly one of the best-known examples of Thai cuisine worldwide. Expats claim to use it as a bellwether for the quality of a restaurant: if the kitchen gets the pad thai right, they probably know how to cook.
Quite a claim for a dish that's not neither very Thai nor very traditional – the dish's full name, kway teow pad thai, or "stir-fried rice noodles, Thai-style" hints at its probable southern Chinese origins (kway teow apparently means rice noodles in the Hokkien dialect), and it's thought to have been popularised, and possibly invented, by Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram in the 1940s as part of his campaign to foster a sense of national identity.
According to an article in the journal Gastromica, Thais were supposed to unite behind this noodle dish – and unite they did, for good reason. It's quick street food, a little spicy, a little sweet, and utterly delicious. Who would have thought your takeaway favourite had such an interesting history?
Like many apparently simple dishes, pad thai is quick, but not necessarily easy. Indeed, Leela Punyaratabandhu has a whole series on the basics of pad thai on her excellent blog, She Simmers, starting with picking the appropriate pan. So, this is clearly a recipe that deserves some careful attention.
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