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Thailand's national noodle was invented to make the country less Chinese.
means A stir-fried rice-noodle dish with egg, tofu or shrimp, tamarind, fish sauce, peanuts and bean sprouts, now treated as Thailand's signature dish.
from The name is plain Thai: "phat" means "stir-fried" and "thai" means, well, Thai — so it literally announces itself as "Thai stir-fry." The noodle and the wok technique are borrowed from Chinese cooking, which makes the nationalist label faintly ironic. The dish rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, when the Thai government promoted it as part of a wider campaign to build national identity; the popular story holds it was pushed during wartime rice shortages, since noodles stretched the grain further.
- political origin
- Promoted by a 1930s regime building national identity
- name meaning
- Pad thai literally means stir-fried Thai
- wartime hack
- Noodles replaced rice during a shortage
- sour secret
- Tamarind, not ketchup, gives the real tang
- street royalty
- Best versions come from carts, not restaurants