Pad Thai

Name: Pad Thai
Yield: Feeds four
Ingredients: 3 tbsp dried shrimp, chopped; 2 or 3 coriander sprigs; 4 tbsp roasted peanuts, lightly crushed; 2 tbsp hard beancurd, cubed; 1 tbsp salted radish, chopped; 150 g (5¼ oz) thin rice stick noodles; 1½ tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar; 3 tbsp boiling water; 1½ tbsp tamarind pulp; 1 tsp dried chilli flakes; 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 3 tbsp oil; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 2 cups bean shoots; 1 lime, quartered; 20 garlic chives, cut into 5 cm (2 in) lengths; 2 eggs, lightly beaten

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

This has to be the most morish, snacky noodle dish in the world, as your mouth goes on a roller-coaster ride from crunchy peanuts to little salty things to fresh bean shoots to soft noodles to garlicky chives and back again. It is much loved at every level of Thai society, from the streetside hawker with his bicycle and small gas burner, up.

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Lunch
Pescatarian
Noodles

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Method