Making Thailand-Style Pad Thai at Home

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Published 2024-04-13
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A comprehensive guide to Thailand street food-style Pad Thai at home! Today we’ll break down Thai food’s most popular culinary export: Pad Thai noodles. We’ll have an in-depth discussion of every ingredient: sour tamarind, sweet palm sugar, and savory fish sauce. And I’ll show you how to prevent your rice noodles from turning into a gloopy, gelatinous mess! This video recipe will show you everything you need to know to make a true Thai-style Pad Thai in your home kitchen!

Recipe document: docs.google.com/document/d/1guXOZujVeKgWbfJDRru8pk…

Wanna learn how to make world-class Vietnamese Pho at home? Check out this video:    • World-Class Beef Pho Secrets Revealed  

Read Leela's amazing Pad Thai articles here:
shesimmers.com/2011/05/pad-thai-recipe-part-one-pa…
shesimmers.com/2011/06/pad-thai-recipe-part-two-no…
shesimmers.com/2011/06/pad-thai-recipe-part-three-…
shesimmers.com/2011/11/pad-thai-recipe-part-four-p…
shesimmers.com/2011/11/pad-thai-recipe-part-five-m…

And you can get Leela's cookbooks here (they're great!):
Simple Thai Food: geni.us/C5Bu7U
Bangkok: geni.us/C5Bu7U

Ingredients:
Palm sugar: geni.us/DVqi
Seedless wet tamarind: geni.us/Wr34
Tamarind concentrate: geni.us/fhLfd
Squid Brand fish sauce: geni.us/SWFT3Bf
Rice noodles (medium size): geni.us/BDUE
Sweet preserved radish: geni.us/4FCTg
Dried shrimp (medium size): geni.us/Eut3kU
Dry roasted peanuts: geni.us/y6paTaA
Dried Thai Chilis (whole): geni.us/99OzHy
Thai crushed chili flakes: geni.us/q6HN
Thai chili powder: geni.us/ON0m

Kitchen gear in video:
Butane burner: geni.us/yXYxEf9
Induction burner: geni.us/mOpIF
Deli containers: geni.us/rJXoK
Glass ramekins: geni.us/Jplij
Mesh strainer: geni.us/SAJgG3C
Cutting board: geni.us/zIWbTB
Squeeze bottle: geni.us/QZSD5b
Baking sheet: geni.us/KJQxnsf
John Boos Work Table: geni.us/XZXk

My favorite Thai cookbook, "It Rains Fishes" by Kasma Loha-Unchit: geni.us/AOqHB

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All Comments (21)
  • @user-sb6wx5dk6x
    Jason is unbeatable. The level of detail is just phenomenal. The amount of patience and perfection that goes into each video is unmatched by mere mortals.
  • @kayagorzan
    As a Thai, I have to commend the comprehensiveness of this video, as for me atleast, it goes into all the necessary parts in making Pad Thai. I also recommend trying Pad Thai with some banana blossoms if available as they go together quite well, but they can have a sappy and chalky taste so it’s not for everybody.
  • @Jerkasaur
    Your channel is easily Top 5, especially for people who actually care about making things right. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos.
  • @Samfisher0620
    I have tried making pad thai before at home. A little tip i would recommend is depending on where you live you may want to blanch your bean sprouts for 20 seconds and then throw into an ice bath before adding to your dish at the end. I find post pandemic they frequently taste horribly of weedkiller in my local grocery store and this completely removes that while maintaining all the crunchy texture and fresh flavor. Otherwise they can completely ruin the dish.
  • @carlkruse3862
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  • @GleeChan
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  • I love how you go over the ingredients and explain each one of them. Thank you.
  • @LindseyLouWho
    I come here for the fantastically researched and tested recipes, but I stay for that authentic Jason humor. Bahahahhah that George Clinton joke I'm using that on my kids' shoes. Bring the funk ahahahahha you'll be a great dad one day, you already have the Dad Jokes nailed down!!!!
  • @Bogidani
    I usually critisize everyone for either their bad information given in the video, lacking lineout or just blatating idiotism but your videos and tips man, just amazing. I love watching and learning from you.
  • @herschoolcolors
    So many good points here that are UBIQUITOUSLY overlooked. I lived in Chiang Mai for school and ate countless mind-blowing pad thais (and a hundred other dishes) in the incredible street restaurants there. I would say that US restaurant pad thais achieve seldom more than 60-70% of the experience of eating pad thai from the expert street vendors in Chiang Mai. Though I am a relatively experienced home cook, I don't think I have ever achieved even that with my Pad Thai at home. It is a hard dish to get right, and once you've had it at a Thai noodle shop, you will remember it forever. The point about stripping your cast iron is absolutely correct. The same happened to my carbon steel pan (Made-In, incidentally). Glad to know it worked well in stainless steel. I've also not loved the results of adding eggs at the end, even though that is certainly how it is done at the Thai noodle shops, so I'm going to try the pre-cooking approach. I feel like I did not notice pickled radishes in my Chiang Mai pad thais, even though I have seen them in many recipes and used them a couple of times before, so I'm wondering if that is somewhat regional. Jason, have you been to Thailand and where? Thanks for your hard work and for going deeper here than most others.
  • @brucelee5576
    If you’re new to fish sauce go with Squid Brand, it’s has a light a crisp flavor and is very versatile.
  • @johncra8982
    quick someone send this to Gordon Ramsay stat 👏
  • @DanielAura
    Pad Thai is my favorite food of all time. Especially with shrimps 🤤
  • @mrtspence
    Another winner, as always. One of the highest-quality cooking channels out there.
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  • @blakeslack
    I will admit, as much as I loved the recipe, the most exciting part about this video to me....the Made-in sponsorship. Congrats on the recognition from sponsors here on the Tubes. And I see that subscriber count is getting quite large too since when I first found you. Again congratulations and keep doing what you're doing. The videos are always well worth the wait. You'll be giving Lagerstrom a run for his money soon ;).
  • @Doublemyst
    Hey Jason, I don't often comment on videos, but thank you very much for your work. You are leaving a positive impact on this world. Some of us will become better cooks and prepare better food, which will influence our children, and they will influence theirs, and so on. So no matter what, you have already made this world a better place with your videos, providing precise details and workarounds for any kind of problems in finding the right ingredients (which are fortunately available to us mere mortals and don't break the bank!).
  • @sweetjimmyt
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