Pai, the full spectrum of your facial expressions in this video were priceless and hilarious! 😆 Loved it. Please do a series where you review other forms of instant 'Thai' foods from the grocery store. (so we don't have to!) 🙇
Pailin, thank you for being our 'official" taster for this authentic Thai dish. You didn't give us the $$ price range of these. anyway, we'll just anticipate your next'grading' of another nat'l dish.😊
hahah i feel too. Living in Spain now its so hard to find authetnic asian sauces and coconut milk too! i tried the coconut milk in spanish grocery stores and it taste nothing like coconut milk . in fact its rubbery and gross.
I have so thankful to have seen you on a Canadian cooking show, then to find your channel. You may feel like you are swimming upstream compared to magazines and the Jamie Oliver’s of the world, but after making your recipes, I would never go back to non or pseudo Thai recipes again. Hands down, your recipes are infinitely better. Keep doing a great job introducing great and authentic food. Cheers!!👏
Best part is, that statement is actually factual Carrot in Thai is just literally called carrot (แครอต) and button mushrooms are called through its french name (I think, idk) Broccoli is just บรอคโคลี่ (same with carrots, no Thai name)
As a Southeast Asian myself whose country is actually pretty close to Thailand, and having had Thai food both in Thailand and in other Western countries eg Australia, I'd say that the Thai food overseas is almost always much sweeter than the real thing.. for some reason. Also in some cases they use coconut cream instead of coconut milk which makes the curries gloopier, and makes dishes fattier, heavier and more surfeiting.
Two most important things I learned from this channel : 1. Most Thai people don't make their own curry paste using a mortar and pestle! I now make really awesome curry because I buy a great quality product at the Asian market and the rest is pretty easy. 2: I finally know how to properly treat rice noodles. I love them but have had terrible luck trying to cook them according to package directions or by winging it. Now my noodles are perfect, not a starchy mess. I haven't watched the video yet. Some frozen foreign dishes can be pretty good, like Indian, but I haven't had good luck with Thai. Noodles are never good in a frozen dinner but rice usually does OK.
Pailin, unlike the variety of instant “pad Thai” you reviewed, your videos are never disappointing. Definitely one that is going to be a Hot Thai Kitchen classic!
Loved this episode. "Cilantro - NO!" It's funny about how some of the brands added non-authentic ingredients. Reminds me of some episodes of America's Test Kitchen when they are preparing some foreign food, but they modify some of the key ingredients to make it very non-authentic. I'm fortunate to live in a city with several good Thai restaurants and a couple of decent Asian markets that sell authentic ingredients for Thai food.
I greatly appreciate your high standards and devotion to authenticity and quality. You are always my 'go to' when it comes to all things Thai cuisine. In fact, I made your coconut water fruit cubes and your mango/coconut fruit cake this weekend for my daughter and granddaughter, who are both vegan. They were gone in 24 hours and received rave reviews!
1) I LOVE you going over the instant stuff 2) I'm so glad you showed up on my feed. I've been trying to branch out into more Korean and Thai cooking. So I'm happy to find someone who makes authentic food to learn from!
This vdo got me laughing. My family enjoyed both of your books and vdo. Even though, we have your weeks, we typically follow your vdo. Thank you for staying true to Thai cuisine and making it simple. We especially love how you explained the reason for the methods
Oh my, thank you so much for this! After suffering through the cloying sweetness of Amy’s “pad Thai,” I vowed that I would never again resort to a quick and easy version of this dish. Your excellent reviews of the other options have firmed my resolve, so thank you for that; I will stick to using your recipes instead! 😍♥️
Am not having pad thai from a box, Thai or Welsh or Chinese. But only because i learned how to make it myself, ehem, from, ehem, you know who. So,... Anyway, it was fun watching your facial expressions 😅 Good stuff here, Pai.
I really love this, and it's so true. You can buy/eat "thai" food in so many ways. You can find a recipe and follow every step, even buy it at a local "thai" restaurant. But it ends up almost every time in something that doesn't compare with how it actually tastes when you sit down to eat in Thailand. My favourite is Pad med mamuang, and now after some years watching your videos and get help from my thai friends, I've actually came close the real thing. :)
What a cute/fun video…. Your facial expressions as you took a bite of each sample…. 😂 I have made your 5 minute pad Thai sauce, and I can attest to how convenient and delicious it was! Love your channel. More power to you! 😊❤
Lived in Thailand for 7-8 years and I give you credit for being brave enough to even try this! I can't even stand to east restaurant Pad Thai outside of Thailand. They had an exclusively Pad Thai soi side restaurant near my home that was always lined up all night busy as heck because that Pad Thai was thee BEST and mostly frequented by the local Thais. I really miss it. They made it right in front of us, so they got to know their customers and what they liked. We had so many choices of what we could get in our Pad Thai!
I’ve always liked the ‘A Taste of Thai’ products. I can’t speak for their authenticity but their peanut noodles stopped me from starving to death in college many a time.
I agree with you re: the amount of sugar some manufacturers put in their prepared products. I once tried a Trader Joe's marinara pasta sauce that was so sweet that it tasted like a dessert it was so sweet. I threw it away. A little sugar, for recipe balance, can be a good thing. The sweet taste can be addicting and lead to serious sugar-eating problems. Thankfully we have your good taste and good cooking to follow. This was a fun video and thank you for 'going there' so that the rest of us don't have to!! haha!
Hi, Khun Pai! Great timing on your part ´cause I planned on making Pad Thai for dinner tonight. Of course an original according to a Hot Thai Kitchen recipe! I already bought shrimps, bean sprouts and tofu for this one. However, I hope you don´t mind me adding some broccolli as an experiment, but no cilantro will find its way in there, I promise😉. I really enjoyed watching your presentation today! You are a natural talent. There really should be an Oscar for this category of showmanship. Thank you for being so entertaining!!🙏
It seemed so much like you were trying to give them the benefit of the doubt when they didn't deserve it. Your recipes are so much better. I SO like your videos!
Spot on review. There's a "pad thai-ish" version of Pad Thai in the midwest, and I feel like these products emulate that flavor. It's always too sweet and often lacking any umami from fish sauce and shrimp paste. I miss eating thai food back in Los Angeles. :(
I just watched the very first video on your channel, 13 years ago! You've come a long way. Congratulations on your success. Whenever I eat a dish at a Thai restaurant that I really like I come to your channel to see if you made it and to get an idea what ingredients are in it, etc.
This is going to be an entertaining watch. 😅 Thanks, love seeing this kind of dress down bad products videos. I remember going to this one fusion takeaway years ago that had a very lovely noodle dish, that while delicious; was absolutely NOT pad thai beyond the peanuts. It's as if they couldnt think of a better name.
Thanks for a very entertaining video. Perhaps not unexpected. Having said that many supposed “Thai” Restaurants also produce disappointing Pad Thai. I always use your recipe and all the family loves it. Cheers
SO glad you did this! Much like you, I've written off any and all instant pad thai from the stores. When you've had really good authentic pad Thai, it's hard to expect the same quality and flavor from anything else. You've just proven our "Asian auntie assumptions". LOL!
I have been having an urge for pad Thai recently and I wanted to make my own. I found your recipe on the internet and made that. For a first timer it turned out pretty good. I found most of the ingredients at a local Asian market. And followed the directions fairly closely. My one mistake was to think that the noodles were going to need some more water, which you said might happen. I added just a splash and realized that I should have just cooked my noodles for a little longer until they were dryer. The second time I did not add the extra water and was much closer to the desired product. I will be repeating it, hopefully with dried shrimp and pickled daikon. Than you so much.
Pai, thank you for making this video review! I was thinking that it would be nice to see some reviews on Pai Thai instant mead before buying and wasting money so this definitely helps!! Please do more reviews on Thai instant dishes in the future!
Thanks for even baring your tonsils to these meals, so we don't have to. If I want to eat a decent Thai meal, I either have to go to a decent Thai restaurant or follow your excellent video recipes Pailin. Long term follower and Thai food maniac 😋 Love from North Wales, UK.
Thanks to Pai: I am now growing my own makrut lime leaves, shallots, garlic chives, and lemon grass. I still haven't made Pai's pad thai recipe but I just found some dried shrimp so I'm almost there. The sweet preserved radish may be too tough to find, but that's OK.
This is fun. Reminds me of Vincenzo of Vincenzo's Plate, the Thai version. People call him a snob, but unless you grew up with the food, you may not realize how badly people screw it up.
That is exceptionally noble of you to put your health at risk for your viewer. Much respect. I tried one of those instant pad thai dishes; it was dreadful. I tried your recipe and it was outstanding.
Hi Pai, It's Anitha from Bangalore, India. After trying food from Thailand, I never tried it outside because the cuisine will change according to that countries taste. I had travelled to Thailand so many times only to have Thai food, otherwise I prepare it in my home after seeing your recipes. Thanks for your lovely and easy recipes.😊
This was fun! I love your delivery and the actual reviews. The idea of a Thai-inspired Welsh-Swedish-fusion "Pad Thai" will live with me (and give me nightmares) forever. Thanks, mad auntie
I was watching this on my laptop with my iPad next to me. When you spoke to Siri to set a timer for a minute in making the 'Taste of Thai' brand, my iPad responded to your voice and set a timer for one minute. I had to laugh!!
Hard for me to imagine that no one in thailand ever used some leaves of cilantro in pad thai or that it completely offend someones taste😂 but i will take care when combining it, due to possible weird reactions or police calling people😅 very funny video, love your recipes, always turned out the most authentic😊
The taste of Thai noodle cooking method really does working surprisingly well, and as you said can be made pretty decent with some additions. I ended up having a ton of their peanut noodles early pandemic and generally added like an extra quarter cup of peanut butter and about the same of sriracha which made them nicely more filling and flavourful.
0:58 "... my angry Asian auntie assumptions." 🤣 Never _ever_ underestimate underestimate Angry Asian Aunties. They are formidable and never wrong when it comes to food. A Vietnamese restaurant I frequent is owned and run by one such Auntie. On more than one occasion, when I ordered something, she rather abruptly said "I'll bring you [another dish] instead. You'll like it better." Every time, it was delicious. Now I sometimes don't even look at the menu, but just ask her to bring me something she'd recommend, and it's always incredible. I love that place.
Weird thing is almost everywhere I go pad Thai is served with carrots and cabbage on the side. I’m Thai and never thought that was weird until I actually went to Thailand.
*LOVE* this video because she shares her cultural reasons why some hit/miss. My favourite part is when she used chop sticks even though she said Thai people only use spoon & fork. 🤣
I've never tried an instant pad thai product. But today, my husband and I did make your recipe for pad thai, and it was delicious. (I've discovered that the secret to doing a faster "mise" is to have one's husband participate.) In my view, half the difficulty in making Thai food is getting good, authentic ingredients. I did get a kick out of your video. Any kind of instant food just doesn't cut it for me.
Great video! The best one I tried is blue elephant but it’s the same “kit” concept as the Thai kitchen one so basically just pad Thai sauce with noodles you have to cook and a pack of crushed peanuts.
This video was so much fun to watch you review! I laughed so hard when you reviewed the Chinese box one- where the noodles shot straight in the box! 🤣 Your expression was so funny and I couldn't believe the process for that one to cook either!!
Thanks for taking one for the authentic Thai food team. The 2nd one from Costco my local Costco has too. One of my family was tempted to buy it until I said no way. Love the in-video text comments (e.g. three out of ten...thousand) 🤣
I feel so lucky to have discovered an authentic southern Thai restaurant in my city, Toronto, that's become my go-to place for impressing friends. Although pad thai and green curry are in the menu, they're listed among so many other delicious dishes. It's really a shame how the spectrum of Thai cooking gets stereotyped into one dish, and worse, even incorrectly. Love the video! Thanks for your passion and humour. (BTW: the restaurant is Koh Lipe Thai Kitchen, on Baldwin Street, 2 blocks east of Chinatown)
@@PailinsKitchen @archie Wisco mentions a rest they found in Toronto. A southern Thai one. Im looking for a good one in Toronto myself. Do you know of any here Pai?
All "thai" restaurants in my town are being run by folks from Vietnam, and they don't serve anything that even closely reassemble Thai food. I react much like you did when you tasted the first noodles from Costco if I eat at any of the local "thai" restaurants. As usual, watching hot Thai kitchen and cook your own food is the best option. I made a Khai yadsai for lunch today and it tasted awesome.
Love your videos, I have been watching you for several years... Learned my love for Thai food from working with several Pilipino nurses in the dialysis unit that I worked in for over 25 years. My question is about noodles that would be appropriate on a Keto-Carnivore way of eating? Thanks so much for the authentic Thai recipies.
I literally came to this video directly from a nigelng / Uncle Roger video where he was doing his usual (hilarious) Jamie Oliver material, and that first mild comment about Jamie Oliver cracked me up!
I'll always be grateful for your yum woon sen recipe. It's been my favorite food ever since I made it after seeing your video. Mind you, I changed it a little to Cajun it up.
I make mom’s recipe of Pad Thai. She was from Udorn My kids wanted a Thai dinner for Xmas one year because it was so good. 😅 I made spring rolls, fried rice and pad thai
I would not worry about competing against these major brands showing Thai recipes or even Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver is not going to cook authentic Thai He's going to cook his influenced spin on Thai which although to non-tie people eating his food would likely enjoy, I'm sure if you were trying these recipes you would certainly say they are not authentic. Stay strong and be proud of you and what you teach here. You should be one of the top creators that everyone looks to for authentic Thai.
I only follow you related to Thai food, same for my favourite Korean chef, my Singaporean chef,❤❤❤ I also follow your advise regarding coconut milk and i have not regretted, same to that sauce that's part of my life now❤. You are a great chef and a great representative of the land of beautiful people🎉
I don’t think one could ever really compare instant Pad Thai to authentic Pad Thai. It has a complex flavor profile and definitely is one of the best noodle dishes anywhere around the world, thus the necessity to make an instant version of it.
76 and V.N. vet. Over the years I have learned so much from you. My guess, going into this video, was very close to your outcome. Very rarely do I find any Asian product, that comes pre-processed, that is any better than mediocre. When I know I am going to do Asian I make sure I have the freshest ingredients I can find for which ever style I'm cooking, and sometimes that's not easy. I've learned that there really isn't a shortcut to fine cooking. My family and friends say I get excellent score for Asian food.
Coming from europe i always thought that thai cooking involved a LOT of sugar already. One of the first phrases i learnt was "mai au wan" or "wan nit noi!"
@@Freaky0Nina yeah, Thai people are kinda crazy about sweets, as I've seen how quickly bakery shops sell out and pastries at 711 are bought by almost everyone. Even my boyfriend, who's native Thai, has a humongous sweet tooth. I've had to order Som Tum many times as Som Tum Pla Ra - sai prik yuh mak lae wan noi krub
This was giving such aunty energy and I was here for it 😂 I’ve basically just assumed that if it came from the grocery store chain it will not be right (or good for that matter).
I like the Amy’s pad Thai because it tastes decent enough and it’s convenient when I need lunch at work but it has never particularly tasted like pad Thai to me, it’s just sort of a very vaguely Thai inspired noodle bowl
Pai, the full spectrum of your facial expressions in this video were priceless and hilarious! 😆 Loved it. Please do a series where you review other forms of instant 'Thai' foods from the grocery store. (so we don't have to!) 🙇
Agreeeeeeeed!
Yes, I want P' Pai to try instant som tum (papaya salad) next! :)
Yes, love the expression…need more fiber in your diet look…
As a fellow Southeast Asian (Filipino) who loves and cooks Thai cuisine, I felt your pain in every single one of those.
Yeah i wish they would make it better… not everyone has the time to cook fresh meals and learn to cook many different foods.
Pailin, thank you for
being our 'official" taster for this authentic Thai dish.
You didn't give us
the $$ price range of
these. anyway, we'll just anticipate your
next'grading' of another nat'l dish.😊
hahah i feel too. Living in Spain now its so hard to find authetnic asian sauces and coconut milk too!
i tried the coconut milk in spanish grocery stores and it taste nothing like coconut milk . in fact its rubbery and gross.
"they tasted less offensive" 😂😂😂😂
I have so thankful to have seen you on a Canadian cooking show, then to find your channel. You may feel like you are swimming upstream compared to magazines and the Jamie Oliver’s of the world, but after making your recipes, I would never go back to non or pseudo Thai recipes again. Hands down, your recipes are infinitely better. Keep doing a great job introducing great and authentic food. Cheers!!👏
whats the cooking shows name?
Thank you so much!!
One World Kitchen
@@PailinsKitchenI agree with Chad, you’re the channel I go to because it’s the real deal!
@@PailinsKitchen that’s right, I knew it was a collection of chefs from different backgrounds but couldn’t remember the name. Awesome stuff
Love your review/opinion. Best phrase "... So un-Thai, there are no Thai words for it!" 😂
Love your posts and recipes!
Best part is, that statement is actually factual
Carrot in Thai is just literally called carrot (แครอต) and button mushrooms are called through its french name (I think, idk)
Broccoli is just บรอคโคลี่ (same with carrots, no Thai name)
Only 3 minutes in and your food-rage and sarcasm are already off the charts and I love it. =D Can't wait to watch the rest now...
Pai had her "angry Thai Auntie" mode activated LOL
“Oh no all my vegetables!” 😂😂😂 Omg, this is so good.
Loved this! I'm American and find store-bought pad thai WAAAY too sweet! Your reactions to these were too funny!
As a Southeast Asian myself whose country is actually pretty close to Thailand, and having had Thai food both in Thailand and in other Western countries eg Australia, I'd say that the Thai food overseas is almost always much sweeter than the real thing.. for some reason. Also in some cases they use coconut cream instead of coconut milk which makes the curries gloopier, and makes dishes fattier, heavier and more surfeiting.
@@YummYakitori Thai use coconut cream too but need to put more curry paste to balance the taste.
Two most important things I learned from this channel :
1. Most Thai people don't make their own curry paste using a mortar and pestle! I now make really awesome curry because I buy a great quality product at the Asian market and the rest is pretty easy.
2: I finally know how to properly treat rice noodles. I love them but have had terrible luck trying to cook them according to package directions or by winging it. Now my noodles are perfect, not a starchy mess.
I haven't watched the video yet. Some frozen foreign dishes can be pretty good, like Indian, but I haven't had good luck with Thai. Noodles are never good in a frozen dinner but rice usually does OK.
Talk about taking one for the team. Pai, you are patience personified!
Thanks Pai. Very entertaining. I am glad that we make our own Thai food at home from scratch and don't have to suffer these "packaged" imitations.
Pailin, unlike the variety of instant “pad Thai” you reviewed, your videos are never disappointing. Definitely one that is going to be a Hot Thai Kitchen classic!
Loved this episode. "Cilantro - NO!" It's funny about how some of the brands added non-authentic ingredients. Reminds me of some episodes of America's Test Kitchen when they are preparing some foreign food, but they modify some of the key ingredients to make it very non-authentic. I'm fortunate to live in a city with several good Thai restaurants and a couple of decent Asian markets that sell authentic ingredients for Thai food.
This was really fun to watch!!!! Thank you as always, love from Japan!
I greatly appreciate your high standards and devotion to authenticity and quality. You are always my 'go to' when it comes to all things Thai cuisine. In fact, I made your coconut water fruit cubes and your mango/coconut fruit cake this weekend for my daughter and granddaughter, who are both vegan. They were gone in 24 hours and received rave reviews!
You’re not mad Aunty at all. All you said is valid. Do more vids like this pls. We need your taste bud to authenticate the originality of Thai foods!
1) I LOVE you going over the instant stuff 2) I'm so glad you showed up on my feed. I've been trying to branch out into more Korean and Thai cooking. So I'm happy to find someone who makes authentic food to learn from!
This vdo got me laughing. My family enjoyed both of your books and vdo. Even though, we have your weeks, we typically follow your vdo. Thank you for staying true to Thai cuisine and making it simple. We especially love how you explained the reason for the methods
Oh my, thank you so much for this! After suffering through the cloying sweetness of Amy’s “pad Thai,” I vowed that I would never again resort to a quick and easy version of this dish.
Your excellent reviews of the other options have firmed my resolve, so thank you for that; I will stick to using your recipes instead! 😍♥️
I have been following you for over 6 to 7 years. I just enjoy your style of presentation. You are marvellous.
Am not having pad thai from a box, Thai or Welsh or Chinese. But only because i learned how to make it myself, ehem, from, ehem, you know who. So,... Anyway, it was fun watching your facial expressions 😅 Good stuff here, Pai.
From Voldemort?
I am so obsessed with you. Your integrity and warmth and love for food is so engaging.
3:32 😂😂😂😂 Thanks for taking one for the team AND saving us so much money! This was awesome, more reviews please. 😁
looool the commentary for the first product was the best
I really love this, and it's so true. You can buy/eat "thai" food in so many ways. You can find a recipe and follow every step, even buy it at a local "thai" restaurant. But it ends up almost every time in something that doesn't compare with how it actually tastes when you sit down to eat in Thailand.
My favourite is Pad med mamuang, and now after some years watching your videos and get help from my thai friends, I've actually came close the real thing. :)
What a cute/fun video…. Your facial expressions as you took a bite of each sample…. 😂
I have made your 5 minute pad Thai sauce, and I can attest to how convenient and delicious it was! Love your channel. More power to you! 😊❤
Loved your facial expressions! Thanks for taking one for the team 😂
Lived in Thailand for 7-8 years and I give you credit for being brave enough to even try this! I can't even stand to east restaurant Pad Thai outside of Thailand. They had an exclusively Pad Thai soi side restaurant near my home that was always lined up all night busy as heck because that Pad Thai was thee BEST and mostly frequented by the local Thais. I really miss it. They made it right in front of us, so they got to know their customers and what they liked. We had so many choices of what we could get in our Pad Thai!
I’ve always liked the ‘A Taste of Thai’ products. I can’t speak for their authenticity but their peanut noodles stopped me from starving to death in college many a time.
I agree with you re: the amount of sugar some manufacturers put in their prepared products. I once tried a Trader Joe's marinara pasta sauce that was so sweet that it tasted like a dessert it was so sweet. I threw it away. A little sugar, for recipe balance, can be a good thing. The sweet taste can be addicting and lead to serious sugar-eating problems. Thankfully we have your good taste and good cooking to follow. This was a fun video and thank you for 'going there' so that the rest of us don't have to!! haha!
Hi, Khun Pai! Great timing on your part ´cause I planned on making Pad Thai for dinner tonight. Of course an original according to a Hot Thai Kitchen recipe! I already bought shrimps, bean sprouts and tofu for this one. However, I hope you don´t mind me adding some broccolli as an experiment, but no cilantro will find its way in there, I promise😉. I really enjoyed watching your presentation today! You are a natural talent. There really should be an Oscar for this category of showmanship. Thank you for being so entertaining!!🙏
Thank you! I will pretend I never heard anything about broccoli in your pad thai. 😂
I add broccoli to almost all my fried noodles because the crunch goes well with the texture of the noodles. lol.
K. Pai, another great video. You are the only cook to offer REAL Thai food in your videos and it really helps being away from Thailand at this time.
It seemed so much like you were trying to give them the benefit of the doubt when they didn't deserve it. Your recipes are so much better. I SO like your videos!
Thank you Auntie Pai! So glad you include a link to your Pad Thai recipe (although I have two of your cookbooks).
I saw everything I needed to know in the looks on your face when you tasted them! 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Pailin, much thanks for the reviews. Loved your slippery lime slips! 🤣💜
Spot on review. There's a "pad thai-ish" version of Pad Thai in the midwest, and I feel like these products emulate that flavor. It's always too sweet and often lacking any umami from fish sauce and shrimp paste. I miss eating thai food back in Los Angeles. :(
I just watched the very first video on your channel, 13 years ago! You've come a long way. Congratulations on your success. Whenever I eat a dish at a Thai restaurant that I really like I come to your channel to see if you made it and to get an idea what ingredients are in it, etc.
This is going to be an entertaining watch. 😅 Thanks, love seeing this kind of dress down bad products videos. I remember going to this one fusion takeaway years ago that had a very lovely noodle dish, that while delicious; was absolutely NOT pad thai beyond the peanuts. It's as if they couldnt think of a better name.
Thanks for a very entertaining video. Perhaps not unexpected. Having said that many supposed “Thai” Restaurants also produce disappointing Pad Thai. I always use your recipe and all the family loves it. Cheers
SO glad you did this! Much like you, I've written off any and all instant pad thai from the stores. When you've had really good authentic pad Thai, it's hard to expect the same quality and flavor from anything else. You've just proven our "Asian auntie assumptions". LOL!
I have been having an urge for pad Thai recently and I wanted to make my own. I found your recipe on the internet and made that. For a first timer it turned out pretty good. I found most of the ingredients at a local Asian market. And followed the directions fairly closely. My one mistake was to think that the noodles were going to need some more water, which you said might happen. I added just a splash and realized that I should have just cooked my noodles for a little longer until they were dryer. The second time I did not add the extra water and was much closer to the desired product. I will be repeating it, hopefully with dried shrimp and pickled daikon.
Than you so much.
Love this! This should be a series!!
Love this video. Thank you so much for taking 1 for the team. I always try to make mine authentic except vegan version.. ❤❤❤
That instant look of disappointment and regret 😂😂😂😂
Pai, thank you for making this video review! I was thinking that it would be nice to see some reviews on Pai Thai instant mead before buying and wasting money so this definitely helps!! Please do more reviews on Thai instant dishes in the future!
Thanks for even baring your tonsils to these meals, so we don't have to. If I want to eat a decent Thai meal, I either have to go to a decent Thai restaurant or follow your excellent video recipes Pailin. Long term follower and Thai food maniac 😋 Love from North Wales, UK.
Only 3 minutes in and your food-rage and sarcasm are already off the charts
Thanks to Pai: I am now growing my own makrut lime leaves, shallots, garlic chives, and lemon grass. I still haven't made Pai's pad thai recipe but I just found some dried shrimp so I'm almost there. The sweet preserved radish may be too tough to find, but that's OK.
It'll be fine without the radish!
This is fun. Reminds me of Vincenzo of Vincenzo's Plate, the Thai version. People call him a snob, but unless you grew up with the food, you may not realize how badly people screw it up.
There’s no better than home cooking and specially your pad Thai recipes 🥰🥰🥰
That is exceptionally noble of you to put your health at risk for your viewer. Much respect. I tried one of those instant pad thai dishes; it was dreadful. I tried your recipe and it was outstanding.
Hi Pai, It's Anitha from Bangalore, India. After trying food from Thailand, I never tried it outside because the cuisine will change according to that countries taste. I had travelled to Thailand so many times only to have Thai food, otherwise I prepare it in my home after seeing your recipes. Thanks for your lovely and easy recipes.😊
This was fun! I love your delivery and the actual reviews. The idea of a Thai-inspired Welsh-Swedish-fusion "Pad Thai" will live with me (and give me nightmares) forever. Thanks, mad auntie
The Thai Queen has spoken and lessons learned. 😂.
I was watching this on my laptop with my iPad next to me. When you spoke to Siri to set a timer for a minute in making the 'Taste of Thai' brand, my iPad responded to your voice and set a timer for one minute. I had to laugh!!
Hard for me to imagine that no one in thailand ever used some leaves of cilantro in pad thai or that it completely offend someones taste😂 but i will take care when combining it, due to possible weird reactions or police calling people😅 very funny video, love your recipes, always turned out the most authentic😊
The taste of Thai noodle cooking method really does working surprisingly well, and as you said can be made pretty decent with some additions. I ended up having a ton of their peanut noodles early pandemic and generally added like an extra quarter cup of peanut butter and about the same of sriracha which made them nicely more filling and flavourful.
Love this! Please do more thai package food comparison. Perhaps do sauces "in a bottle" next.
As a father to a Korean and Chinese daughter who really try to cook authentic, as much as possible, I loved your sense of humor.
0:58 "... my angry Asian auntie assumptions." 🤣
Never _ever_ underestimate underestimate Angry Asian Aunties. They are formidable and never wrong when it comes to food.
A Vietnamese restaurant I frequent is owned and run by one such Auntie. On more than one occasion, when I ordered something, she rather abruptly said "I'll bring you [another dish] instead. You'll like it better." Every time, it was delicious. Now I sometimes don't even look at the menu, but just ask her to bring me something she'd recommend, and it's always incredible. I love that place.
this was such a fun video. thanks for keeping asian authentic.
also i love your apron 👀
Weird thing is almost everywhere I go pad Thai is served with carrots and cabbage on the side. I’m Thai and never thought that was weird until I actually went to Thailand.
I absolutely LOVE your content!
*LOVE* this video because she shares her cultural reasons why some hit/miss. My favourite part is when she used chop sticks even though she said Thai people only use spoon & fork. 🤣
But it came in a Chinese takeout box so I was trying to stick to the theme lol
I've never tried an instant pad thai product. But today, my husband and I did make your recipe for pad thai, and it was delicious. (I've discovered that the secret to doing a faster "mise" is to have one's husband participate.) In my view, half the difficulty in making Thai food is getting good, authentic ingredients. I did get a kick out of your video. Any kind of instant food just doesn't cut it for me.
I get the "A Taste of Thai" Peanut Noodles far too often but when I need something fast for at work its not that bad.
Great video! The best one I tried is blue elephant but it’s the same “kit” concept as the Thai kitchen one so basically just pad Thai sauce with noodles you have to cook and a pack of crushed peanuts.
As a fellow Thai living overseas I felt your pain deeply 🤣
This video was so much fun to watch you review! I laughed so hard when you reviewed the Chinese box one- where the noodles shot straight in the box! 🤣 Your expression was so funny and I couldn't believe the process for that one to cook either!!
I'm now awaiting the "Mad Aunty" brand of instant Thai foods.. Lol
Thanks for taking one for the authentic Thai food team. The 2nd one from Costco my local Costco has too. One of my family was tempted to buy it until I said no way. Love the in-video text comments (e.g. three out of ten...thousand) 🤣
I feel so lucky to have discovered an authentic southern Thai restaurant in my city, Toronto, that's become my go-to place for impressing friends. Although pad thai and green curry are in the menu, they're listed among so many other delicious dishes. It's really a shame how the spectrum of Thai cooking gets stereotyped into one dish, and worse, even incorrectly. Love the video! Thanks for your passion and humour. (BTW: the restaurant is Koh Lipe Thai Kitchen, on Baldwin Street, 2 blocks east of Chinatown)
OMG ! You are on another level !!! i'm thai and i can't handle with that southern Thai spicy
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Hi. Can you mention the name of the resto you found in Toronto? Would love to try it out. Thx!
Which restaurant is it??
@@PailinsKitchen @archie Wisco mentions a rest they found in Toronto. A southern Thai one. Im looking for a good one in Toronto myself. Do you know of any here Pai?
@@PailinsKitchen Koh Lipe (on Baldwin Street, a couple of blocks east of Chinatown)
This was my first time coming across your videos and you've definitely earned a new regular viewer 😄
All "thai" restaurants in my town are being run by folks from Vietnam, and they don't serve anything that even closely reassemble Thai food.
I react much like you did when you tasted the first noodles from Costco if I eat at any of the local "thai" restaurants.
As usual, watching hot Thai kitchen and cook your own food is the best option.
I made a Khai yadsai for lunch today and it tasted awesome.
Khai yadsai is soooooooooooooooooooo goood all the time and childrens really gonna love it
Pailin, As usual your thorough presentation inspired
me to seek for your
recommended Thai
Pad Thai. Thank you!
0:26 i hope Uncle Roger dont hear this, he will definitely come for you if he does 😂 god bless you..
Love your videos, I have been watching you for several years... Learned my love for Thai food from working with several Pilipino nurses in the dialysis unit that I worked in for over 25 years. My question is about noodles that would be appropriate on a Keto-Carnivore way of eating? Thanks so much for the authentic Thai recipies.
I literally came to this video directly from a nigelng / Uncle Roger video where he was doing his usual (hilarious) Jamie Oliver material, and that first mild comment about Jamie Oliver cracked me up!
Another review of one of the worst Pad Thais ever: th-cam.com/video/qGy7qa2Veek/w-d-xo.html
Haha, just noticed he cited your channel on how to do rice noodles! Even Uncle Roger knows who the authorities on Pad Thai are!
Hahhaa, he sure does!
I'll always be grateful for your yum woon sen recipe. It's been my favorite food ever since I made it after seeing your video. Mind you, I changed it a little to Cajun it up.
I actually have that first “pad Thai”
3/10 is generous. She is being kind.
The best I can say is, it’s edible.
it's the Canadian environment.
I make mom’s recipe of Pad Thai. She was from Udorn
My kids wanted a Thai dinner for Xmas one year because it was so good. 😅 I made spring rolls, fried rice and pad thai
I would not worry about competing against these major brands showing Thai recipes or even Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver is not going to cook authentic Thai He's going to cook his influenced spin on Thai which although to non-tie people eating his food would likely enjoy, I'm sure if you were trying these recipes you would certainly say they are not authentic.
Stay strong and be proud of you and what you teach here. You should be one of the top creators that everyone looks to for authentic Thai.
Nice job Pai; I knew it that nothing beats the homemade preps. Thanks for trying it for us.
Uncle Roger would approve of you dissing Jamie Oliver. So would I!
I only follow you related to Thai food, same for my favourite Korean chef, my Singaporean chef,❤❤❤
I also follow your advise regarding coconut milk and i have not regretted, same to that sauce that's part of my life now❤. You are a great chef and a great representative of the land of beautiful people🎉
I don’t think one could ever really compare instant Pad Thai to authentic Pad Thai. It has a complex flavor profile and definitely is one of the best noodle dishes anywhere around the world, thus the necessity to make an instant version of it.
76 and V.N. vet. Over the years I have learned so much from you. My guess, going into this video, was very close to your outcome. Very rarely do I find any Asian product, that comes pre-processed, that is any better than mediocre. When I know I am going to do Asian I make sure I have the freshest ingredients I can find for which ever style I'm cooking, and sometimes that's not easy. I've learned that there really isn't a shortcut to fine cooking. My family and friends say I get excellent score for Asian food.
Mouth says 5 out of 10, but face says 3, haha.
This is like watching a comedy, so funny how you presented the whole thing 🤣
Your face expression reveals it all
The moment Pailin said "Thai recipes from Jamie Oliver"..a voice in the back of my head went "HAIYAAAAA" 🤣
The reason why there is so much sugar in that, is because Americans
Coming from europe i always thought that thai cooking involved a LOT of sugar already. One of the first phrases i learnt was "mai au wan" or "wan nit noi!"
It's the world of capitalism we spend money for sugar, fat and salt then we get sick and spend money for medicines!
@@Freaky0Nina yeah, Thai people are kinda crazy about sweets, as I've seen how quickly bakery shops sell out and pastries at 711 are bought by almost everyone. Even my boyfriend, who's native Thai, has a humongous sweet tooth. I've had to order Som Tum many times as Som Tum Pla Ra - sai prik yuh mak lae wan noi krub
The brand of the sweet one is Pulmuone, which is Korean…
get over yourself lmao
This was one of my favorite videos of this week. You are great!
Looks like an opportunity for you to develop a packaged Pad Thai, Pailin😊
This was giving such aunty energy and I was here for it 😂 I’ve basically just assumed that if it came from the grocery store chain it will not be right (or good for that matter).
I like the Amy’s pad Thai because it tastes decent enough and it’s convenient when I need lunch at work but it has never particularly tasted like pad Thai to me, it’s just sort of a very vaguely Thai inspired noodle bowl
Physically cringed when you said Jamie Oliver. Im not even Thai, but I know his "Thai" food is an insult to Thailand.
You are one incredible lady and chef. I will never forgive myself for only discovering you 6 months ago.
"recipes from Jamie Oliver" SPEAK NOT HIS ACCURSÈD NAME