Food History: Pad Thai

Would love to see something about Mongolian food, or the lack thereof on the United States.

Y'all.
Why spend 15$ at a Thai restaurant for good pad Thai. When you can spend twice as much and get terrible results at home

MENUDO! Let’s goooo

No, it does not fall short by his own "Nationalistic Standards", all those ingredients are "Thai ingredients" even if they aren't native, because they've been used in those regions since ancient times. Tamarind is a prime example, that spread all over Asia many centuries ago. The chili pepper, one of the more modern ones seeing as it's a New World dish, was popular all over Asia even as early as in the 1500's. Peanuts as well in the 17th century.

All of the ingredients mentioned would have been common, local ingredients for centuries now by the time Thailand became what it is today. That's equivocating "national ingredient" with "native plant", nobody assumes that just because an ingredient belongs to a country that means it must've been first cultivated there, that's just silly. Likewise it'd be silly to tell a nationalistic Indian chef who's proud of using Indian Ingredients that "actually rice was first domesticated in China".

Georgian food... The country, not the state ;) Seriously, Georgia has a REALLY rich culinary history and according to my research (aka intense googling) may be the birthplace of grape-wine as we know it. Regardless, it is a food culture that deserves MUCH more focus than it's received.

ALSO, Salvadoran food. Pupusas are AMAZING!! They are the best bits of tortillas and tamales COMBINED into one dish!! And they are essentially the national dish of El Salvador. SOOOO good. I love mine "con todo" (i.e. with everything)!!!

I find it interesting that a place called Thai Express in Canada is so popular (and actually one of the few places that has vegan and gluten free options), and yet it could have just been called express stir-fry or something, since most of what they have is different stir-fry flavours, as well as some Thai soups. But it is one of my favourite things as a vegetarian, and most places in Canada are able to make it without fish sauce upon request.

Just wanted something to listen to while I walked the dog, and BAM! Now I’m starving!

I love pad thai

Pocket that is hot also describes you, Justin 😘

Omg now I know why I keep seeing "Cool Basil" as a restaurant name so often!!!

Beef Bourguignon :-) ?

"Authentic" is a bullshit label. Pad Thai is fucking delicious.

Kimchi

How can I know this video isn’t one of the propaganda piece of the Thai military junta?!
Are you one of them lizardmen?!

I live near Thai restaurant called Bow Thai. 🎀 And I think that's very cute.

There is a Thai place called Cool Basil in my hometown....

I'm still hoping to see a food history vid on salt and pepper, unless I've missed it.

Phibun looks like B. D. Wong from Law & Order SVU!!!

Hate to break to y’all but nobody goes to Thailand for food or culture.

You should do an episode on the history of carne asada.

Paprika Chicken!

Curry, please

I recommend covering biltong and other meat preservation techniques like jerky

Thai food is the best

Was Cilantro not even talked about in this episode?

I did not know about the restaurants. Sneaky, but delicious.

Pad Thai is so good if you told me it WAS cooked in a government lab 🧫 I’d believe it! 🇹🇭

I dare you to try covering paella

Pad Thai is my favorite! 😋

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Unclear in how a multitude of proteins gives something the "potential to be a full meal." ?? Nutritionally it's pretty much a full meal with any one of those proteins, isn't it?

barely made it 3 minutes in before i ordered my own bowl of pad thai for lunch. sometimes, the universe sends you sign. you just gotta listen to them (and impulse buy lunch)

Please do the world's #1 historical food... Pocket Sandwiches! Whether it's a species of empinadas, a breed of pasty, or the internet famous American style hot pockets ( aka Poches chaudes à l'américaine ) nearly every country has their own.

Lunch anyone?

When there is a “ph” in Thai-English it’s pronounced /p/ the h is for aspiration. So not /fibun/ but /pibun/. Same goes for mostly every other Thai word written with Ph, e.g. Phuket.

Also pad Thai is actually pronounced “putt” Thai (/putt/ pad meaning to fry)

Love these food history videos! My suggestions are pizza, ice cream, cakes, bbq, holiday foods, milks, and religious foods.

Heading into Halloween would be a great time to do the history of candy

I love hearing about food history! Every time it’s an example of the creativity of regular people trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. And the fact that it went from propaganda tool to drunk food makes me laugh

Plaek Phibunsongkhram, or as known colloquially in Thailand as General P as he usually stylised himself as General P Phibunsongkhram, is such a colourful and controversial figure in Thai post-revolution politics (which coincides with the WWII and then the Cold War. His name, Plaek, literally means "weird" (refer to his facial appearance with his ears completely below his eyes). As mentioned in this video, he tried to virtually press a reset button of Thai culture and switch them to align with Western cultures, which did both good and harm. Among the "weird" things this General Weird did are: ordering place names containing the names of other nations in SE Asia to be changed, creating dress codes (for example, women have to wear skirt-like garments and hats while outside), airing propaganda skits on radio reminding people to "follow the leader to keep our nation safe", attempting to revise spellings of Thai words (especially loan words) to be more simplified etc. He also involved in the establishment of several universities at the time, especially in regions faraway from Bangkok. All in all, he is a very "weird" historical figure whom I want to both be grateful to and despise him at the same time.

Can you explain how turning rice into rice noodles increased the supply of food? You’re not creating calories out of thin air, right? I can see noodles looking more visually filling but you’d still feel the reduced calories.

Marshal Strange

Is it on purpose that hes using chop sticks to eat the pad thai at the end? I mean since chop sticks arent used in Thailand...

The meaning of “KueyTew” is just a plain noodle…

PadThai meaning
” fried it in the Thai style” Due to the combination tastes of fish sauce, tamarind sauce, lime, chili, sugar, peanut and etc.

Which made it a unique dish and DOES NOT exist in the old China

Pad Thai is just a delicious dish amongst hundreds of other delicious Thai food. It's popular amongst foreigners because it's delicious and the dish name has "Thai" in it so it's easy to recall and easy to remember to associate with the country Thailand. Now foreigners have strong perception that oh it's Thai national food therefore everyone in Thailand eats it. Well, that's not true. Thailand has four regions: Central, North, Northeast, and South, each has its own beloved cuisines. Pad Thai is Central Thailand food. If you ask people from Northeast or South if they eat Pad Thai, they will probably say NO. And they will say it's "tourist food", cos tourists like to order everywhere they go, while the locals eat their own cuisines food.

So you're telling me that the Thai restaurant that inexplicably popped up in 2005 in my completely irrelevant American suburb was all part of a Thai government plot to feed me delicious noodles?