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I know some of you are a bit confused about PAD being in the news so much lately. Let me reassure you, Pad Thai did NOT take over Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. I repeat. Pad Thai, or Thai fried noodles did NOT take over any of Thailand’s airports, nor did it protest anything going on in Thailand at all.
There is Pad Thai and there is PAD Thailand. Pad Thai is the delicious, world-renowned Thai cuisine that sets your stomach straight when you get a craving for amazing Thai food and flavor.
PAD Thailand is the “People’s Alliance for Democracy” that is a political party that has, for a week and with some long-term consequences destroyed Thailand’s tourism and tarnished their image a bit. PAD Thailand’s idea is a good one, but how they went about implementing their protests was pretty hardcore and the country is still reeling from it.
Please, go back to eating pad Thai at your favorite Thai restaurant wherever in the world you happen to be. Pad Thai will do you no harm.
2 Big tbsp. of palm sugar
3 tbsp. concentrated tamarind juice
3 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
Prepare ingredients to cook the noodle:
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. minced shallot
1 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. cut yellow tofu
1 tbsp. sweet radish (minced)
2 handful thin noodle if you can’t find the specific one, just use any noodle, mung bean noodle is also good. (Soak the noodle in regular water for 2 hours)
2 eggs
1 handful of a garlic-like vegetable >>> garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives.
10 big shrimps (peeled, De-veined and cooked)
Final Decoration:
1 handful bean sprouts
1 tsp. dried red chili powder
2 tbsp. roasted peanut (crushed)
1 tsp. sugar
4-5 branches of Uuicnri leaves/ garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives.
1 piece of sliced lime
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan and add palm sugar, fish sauce, tamarind juice, oyster sauce and a little bit of water. Now used medium or low heat to let the sauce boiled and get thick. Keep stirring. Make sure you don’t burn the sauce. Gold pad Thai is good pad Thai. Be careful, it will be bitter if you put max heat and burn it.
2. Taste the sauce and make it the way you like. Some people love it more sweet and some just love it a little more salty but the trick of Pad Thai sauce is the well-balance of 3 tastes, sweetness, sourness and saltiness. So change it the way you like. If you like it sweet, keep the taste the way it is will be right taste for you. However, my trick is to add some Maggi soy sauce to make it more salty as my husband love it that way.
3. When the sauce get thick enough, remove from the stove.
Next, we will cook the pad Thai noodles.
1. In a different pan, heat the pan and add vegetable oil. When the pan is hot, add garlic and shallot Fry until it has aromatic smell.
2. Next, add tofu and sweet radish.
3. Now, add noodle and 4 tbsp of the sauce we made from earlier. (that’s for 1 serving). You can keep adding the sauce of the amount of the noodle is more than one handful. Make sure you don’t add too much because the noodle will be too wet and overcook. (add it little by little) Then, make a quick stir.
You may want to pick the noodle and taste it to see if your noodle is cooked right.
4. If you like bean sprouts and the sliced garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives to be cooked, add it in this step.
5. Push the noodle aside. Add the egg and cook it until it is half way done then mix it with the noodle. Now add shrimps and mix.
6. Turn off the fire. Arrange the noodle on a plate. Put dried chili pepper, sugar, roasted peanut, fresh bean sprouts, one piece of lemon and the garlic Chives/ Chinese Chives on a side.
Another option for Pad Thai, make an omelet from duck’s eggs. Make it as thin and as big as possible. Put the noodle in the middle of the omelet. Fold four sides then put another plate on top. Turn it upside down. Decorate it with bean sprouts, the genus Allium or scallion, dried chili powder, sugar, peanut, and one piece of lemon.
We called this Pad Thai with omelet in Thai language, “Pad Thai Kai Ho”. Pad Thai is a classic Thai Food dish and one that we eat a lot – a couple times per month. Tourists, when they come to Thailand know “Pad Thai” from the Thai food restaurants in their home country. They always seem to know to order this dish!
Oops, BONUS – Below is a video of me making Pad Thai another time (6/2011) – this was the best Pad Thai my husband ever ate!
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