Pad Thai

This stir fried noodles with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts make Pad Thai to most Thai popular dish and to one of the world’s most beloved noodle dishes. Along with Thai Green Curry and Red Curry, this is the dish by which every Thai restaurant is measured.

Pad Thai is normally served with lime wedges and chopped roasted peanuts. Alsmost every Thai restaurants serve their own version of Pad Thai with its additional ingredient.

Like many apparently simple dishes, pad thai is quick, but not necessarily easy.

Pad Thai is actually not 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.