Thip Samai Pad Thai

Why Thip Samai Pad Thai is special ?

Must try dish

Pad Thai

It is a stir-fried rice noodle dish made with soaked dried rice noodles, which are stir-fried with eggs, fish sauce, dried shrimp, garlic or shallots, red chili pepper and palm sugar, and served with lime wedge.. It may also contain other vegetables and raw banana flowers.

Depending on the version of Pad Thai ordered, the recipe often begins first with shrimp that are fried in oil before being joined by thick handfuls of dry rice noodles. The noodles are soaked in sauces and oils as the heat and steam cooks the noodles quickly.

Tofu, baby shrimp, leeks, bean sprouts, and other ingredients per recipe, are all tossed into the mixture. Finally the mess of Pad Thai is scooted to one side as eggs are cracked into the agglomeration.

After the batch of Pad Thai is finished, it’s divvied out onto individual plates and either served as is, boxed into styrofoam to-go containers

Similar to shopping at a department store and having your gift wrapped in a fancy box and tied with bright colored ribbon, so the Pad Thai is decorated in a beautiful wrapper before being served.

Over a bonfire of flames, an intensely hot wok is thinly layered with beaten egg and swirled around like a crepe.

The egg cooks in seconds, at which point the plate of freshly cooked Pad Thai is dumped into the middle of the egg, wrapped up on all sides, and placed back onto the plate.

The first egg layer is messy with holes in it, so the process is repeated twice, leaving the final Pad Thai neatly wrapped in smokey flavored eggy goodness.

Source: http://www.eatingthaifood.com/

How to get to Thip Samai Pad Thai?

To get to Thip Samai is a journey in itself as most cabs refuse to pick passengers or will charge a flat price of THB150-200 (roughly AUD$5-7) and a tuk tuk will take you there for THB200 or more.

However, with patience and perseverance (just keep hailing them down – making sure your palm faces down) you will find one to negotiate that will take you there for a decent fare (about the THB150 mark from the CBD).

Usually (depending on the direction you’re coming from), the cab/tuk tuk driver will drop you off at the intersection right before the restaurant as it is easier for them to head back into the city centre for customers.

Just keep walking along the main stretch of the road until you find the brightest and busiest shopfront with a red signboard (there’s a few on this road and food apparently is good all around).

Source: http://msihua.com/2013/