Do Thai People Actually Eat Pad Thai? And your other questions!

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  • We have another AMA with all of your burning questions all about Thai food, and some about me!
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    07:42 Do Thai people eat pad thai?
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    After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via TH-cam videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at hot-thai-kitchen.com
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  • @camdacop
    @camdacop 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +305

    I look for a picture of the Thai king somewhere in the restaurant when I'm seeking authentic Thai food. Has never failed.

    • @scottboettcher1344
      @scottboettcher1344 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The "cash register Buddha" covered in coins is less reliable. 😉

    • @jJ-yr7wj
      @jJ-yr7wj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Woww. You are an expert!

    • @stsotika
      @stsotika 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I agree it’s like magic when the restaurant have a picture of Thai king they always have delicious food !!! 😂😂

    • @surlespasdondine
      @surlespasdondine 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jJ-yr7wj lol😅

    • @angiel3693
      @angiel3693 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The first time I saw the king’s picture I asked the waiter who that person was. The answer got me so confused 😅

  • @Kairikey
    @Kairikey 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +336

    As a Thai, I do eat pad thai. We all do eat pad thai, but not all the time. It's just a dish. It became the national dish because the government said so. A very generalized history ofnit is that they invented the recipe during the time where Thailand need strong identity to escape colonialism plus the rice shortage due to wartime was real back then. The dish that is more ubiquotous that people really do eat more all the time is Pad Kaprao.

    • @stephanesivilay1516
      @stephanesivilay1516 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Second that !

    • @Jeffffrey0902
      @Jeffffrey0902 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That turned out to be a success as Thailand is the only SE Asian country that has never been colonised. But I don't understand how the dish helped fight rice shortage as the noodles themselves are made from rice.

    • @willowpitbull47
      @willowpitbull47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Rice noodles are lighter than rice. In other word, noodles have lesser density than rice. A large portion of rice noodle gives an apparent of a large meal. add the fast growing bean sprout to it. You can feed more people.😄

    • @jJ-yr7wj
      @jJ-yr7wj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@Jeffffrey0902 Wow you know that Thailand is the only SEA country never been colonised. I am impressed with your knowledge and feel honoured at the same time. Thanks.
      Pad thai was invented during the time of PM. Plaek (จอมพล แปลก พิบูลย์สงคราม)
      He was the PM during WWII when there were many turmoils from political unrests after the revolution from absolute monarchy to democracy, food/supplies scarcity in WWII, to the spread of communism.
      ( Well, colonialism was not really a serious threat by that time because the western countries had jumped into WWI&WWII and became weaker.
      The colonialism was a "HUGE" threat around year 18xx long before the WWI and we Siam (old name of Thailand) pretty much avoided being colonised by executing the King Rama V's strategies. )
      PM Plaek thought nationalism was the key to strenghten up the country. So he launched many policies based on the idea of nationalism.
      For example, changing the name of country from Siam to Thailand, so-call-modernising citizens' way of life (and of course inventing a national easy dish Pad Thai), simplifying Thai language, etc.
      Some policies' consequences are given up and some still live on.
      Why Pad Thai? The word "Thai" was used because of the nationalism. Noodle was used because it's cheaper than the whole grain rice. Noodle can be made from broken grains.

    • @Jeffffrey0902
      @Jeffffrey0902 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@jJ-yr7wj I feel embarrassed because I didn't get good grades in history. 🙈 But since I'm from Hong Kong, a former British colony, it's nice to know a few things about colonialism in Asia. Thanks for answering my question about the noodles. Have a great weekend! 😁

  • @JKenjiLopezAlt
    @JKenjiLopezAlt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    Let’s do something sooner than later!

    • @noodler7764
      @noodler7764 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      pleeeeeeeeeaz

    • @Serenity_Dee
      @Serenity_Dee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I NEED THIS

    • @SL-vs7fs
      @SL-vs7fs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why aren’t there more 👍 ?? We need them.

  • @tabacum2
    @tabacum2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    I was in a small dirt road town in Kanchanaburi and my mototaxi driver said his wife could make me Pad Thai if I was hungry. I thought he was stereotyping me as a farang that only eats pad thai, but turns out his wife ran a street stall that specialized in pad thai made to order. Best I’ve ever had. I can attest that it is a real thing in Thailand!

    • @andyandy2629
      @andyandy2629 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I have lived in Thailand for 20 years and yes Pad Thai exists and there are market stalls that sell it but it is far down the list.

  • @kirksulu
    @kirksulu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    I'm Thai and I love good pad Thai. I don't know why people think that Thai people don't eat padthai, which baffles me. Thai people do eat padthai, but we don't eat padthai everyday, just like we don't eat curry every day, or we don't eat pad krapow everyday. Also, Thai people eat padthai as a stand alone dish, and it is a one person dish, we don't share padthai. Maybe this is the reason why foreigners don't see Thai people order padthai in Thai restaurants. In proper Thai dinner, all dishes like curries, tom yum kung, tungtong, todman, etc. are put at the center of the table and to be shared by everyone, and everyone have their own plate of rice. So it's kind of weird ordering padthai for yourself when you're supposed to be having shared meal with everyone else.

    • @caitlindunnington5711
      @caitlindunnington5711 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I literally saw a video the other day with millions of views saying, I am a thai person and no one here eats pad thai, we eat pad kee mao instead. So probably supposedly thai people who say thai people don't eat pad thai is why!

    • @Bixmy
      @Bixmy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      From my experience most people eat padthai like once a year or at most every quarter. Theres exceptions on a few who really like it and have it every week.

    • @Bixmy
      @Bixmy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hard to compair it to pad krapao or other dishes. It might be a gen z kind of thing thou. Alot of gen z never even tried padthai b4

    • @heshuimu
      @heshuimu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's just maybe because people are getting more culturally sensitive and things starts to get overcorrected. it's similar to Chinese food where a lot of my non-Asian friends in US now would usually be joking that is not real Chinese food when discussing my heritage -- which it's half-true because dishes like 糖醋里脊(TangCuLiJi) and 咕咾肉(GuLaoRou) do exist, but they are not in the form that Panda Express and P.F. Chang serve, and certainly not what Chines people eat everyday given the abundance of choices. We just need to keep educating people on the nuance of each cuisine so that people have a full understanding.

    • @jensayles4163
      @jensayles4163 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My Thai family eats padthai but not often. Much less often then other street foods like pad see ew, pad Krapao,and Khao man gai. And they prefer fish and fish and more fish in every form! It’s like if you they see a good padthai cart and it’s lunchtime, you’re going for it. Honestly it’s not that easy to find now. In the 90’s most bak soi markets had one padthai cart. Not anymore.

  • @ladyteruki
    @ladyteruki 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    I've seen a grand total of 3 videos from you in the past day and I'm already in love with your sense of humor. The "how about a zucchini" delivery was perfect.

    • @PailinsKitchen
      @PailinsKitchen  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Hahaha, I'll let you know when I have a standup show.

    • @susanmcmasterson956
      @susanmcmasterson956 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That really made me laugh! I’m new to this channel as someone who’s become quite Thai-curious as of late and I’m loving it. Thanks Pailin!

    • @junbecks
      @junbecks 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thats why Ive been a viewer for more than a decade! You learn to cook these dishes and you get some laughs

    • @tavitlertritsumpun7160
      @tavitlertritsumpun7160 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PailinsKitchen You always stand up to cook!

    • @tv-21
      @tv-21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love bittermelom! Bitter flavor tastes so good 😋 😍 😜 😊 😩

  • @SL-vs7fs
    @SL-vs7fs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    “A plate of stereotype…” You have finally nailed this for all the cuisines out there. A great public service. Thank you! 👏👏👏

    • @stormybear4986
      @stormybear4986 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Stereotype is a good way of describing Pad Thai for the tourists. People were always surprised when I would ordered real Thai food in Thai, my ex wife taught me to speak Thai with a bit of an accent from Southern Thailand. My Thai is very strong though I'm a little rusty now, I left Thailand in 2001. But I love to practice my Thai when I go to Thai restaurants locally. I'm a big burly white guy, but my Thai is really good. Only problem, the waitresses try to catch me for a boyfriend/husband, I almost hate telling them I'm gay and I already have a husband, But I've already had two wives and that's enough for one lifetime.

    • @PettyPrinzeJr
      @PettyPrinzeJr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      omg I have never heard anything more accurate in my life when describing "Thai" menu items at non-Thai restaurants lmao

  • @donaldcornwell1151
    @donaldcornwell1151 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    Thank you for addressing the bread and butter issue. I don't feel alone in my struggle now. LOL

    • @PailinsKitchen
      @PailinsKitchen  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      #stopthecoldbutter

    • @neilpickup237
      @neilpickup237 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Sometimes, I think they must put it into the freezer to make it extra hard for their amusement!

    • @sybilseung
      @sybilseung 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you watch Succession, there is a line in the show about how ‘the butter is frozen’. 😂😂😂

    • @TheEmperorsSidekick
      @TheEmperorsSidekick 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All they really have to do is serve warm bread. But, alas, restaurants have been getting stingier.

    • @bkm2797
      @bkm2797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've been complaining about it for decades lol, you see how much some things never change.

  • @CHOCOLATIONZ
    @CHOCOLATIONZ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I’m Thai and I’d like to second this. I like to eat Pad Thai but only from time to time. That’s because we Thai people have so many options to choose to eat. But whenever I crave Pad Thai, I go find and enjoy a nice dish of Pad Thai.

  • @zakuradragon
    @zakuradragon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I asked the same question about bitter melon to my family during my childhood years. But over the years when I grew older, I enjoy eating recipes with bitter melons and somehow bypass the bitter taste. It has a lot of potent vitamins and health benefits that cannot be underestimated!

    • @whydoineedanameiwillneverp7790
      @whydoineedanameiwillneverp7790 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@user-ph3ji8gp3pTastebuds just vary, I think
      I love bittergourd (same thing as bitter melon as far as I can tell) - and always have, even as a very young kid. Like, I have eaten sauteed bittergourd straight out of the fridge as a snack, in my childhood. My parents OTOH _hate_ it, and always have. They had to be forced by _their_ parents to eat it, well into adulthood (because good for health, etc). Once their parents passed, mine just stopped eating it, lol.

    • @Johnne009
      @Johnne009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We Chinese soak them in alkaline water before cooking to get rid of the bitterness

    • @JC-life-is-good
      @JC-life-is-good 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I never really like the taste of bitter melons. My mom would cook these with the melon stuffed in the middle with ground pork in a soup. I guess people eat available things and continue to eat them even though they are not tasty. Look at stinky tofu! I tried it three times and still can't stand them. As someone stated before, why not just eat regular tofu!

  • @melissalambert7615
    @melissalambert7615 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The broccoli in in the photo, yes. Thought you were going to mention the no spoon. The places that have one "Thai" dish and it's got peanuts cracked me up! My Greek friends go crazy with a "Greek" dish that just has feta in it. Thanks for the tips in setting up a full meal.

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    When you said that thing about geniune Thai restaurants I had to check one of my favourites. It is located in a very small Swedish village (we have a lot of Thai immigrants, there is decent Thai practically everywhere) but this one is exceptional. So I decided to check the details of the menu and yes, they have a lot of nonstandard items, and nothing in the way of sushi or other non-Thai Asian food.
    Now I am even more looking forward to my next work trip there in a few weeks.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, my take on "genuine food" is that the food need to be eaten in the right environment. That divine light white win you sip in the shade in Mediterranean summer can become a sour, watery mess in winter in the Scottish mountains.
      I think the same is true for produce, they need to be grown reasonably close to where they are used, in the right soil and climate.
      That said, you can get delicious food that is _not_ "genuine" but still reminds you of the dishes you miss from home. (In a world where I spend a decade abroad that might happen).

  • @bravery2047
    @bravery2047 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Bitter melon is good when you can taste the kind of slightly sweet aftertaste. It's like when you drink good plain tea or coffee, when you feel the kind of refreshing "sweetness" afterwards. Also, if you make it less bitter then add other strong tasting things to it, like stir fry it in fermented black-bean sauce with beef, or cook it with salty duck egg, or drip honey on cold crunchy bitter melon, the refreshing taste of bitter lemon makes a fantastic combination with the strong flavor.

  • @surlespasdondine
    @surlespasdondine 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    We stayed in Thailand for 3 weeks and I already miss the food and the people so much. I tasted so many different dishes. 😋 And I love Thai values and respect we can learn from in the West.

  • @callahanv
    @callahanv 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great Q&A thank you!!! I learned so much in 15 minutes. And so excited to hear you and Kenji are doing an IRL event in Seattle, can't wait to hear more about it.

  • @m.taylor
    @m.taylor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What I like about this channel is that you make an effort to reply to commenters' questions in older videos, even if it is to direct them to contact you thru other means.

  • @melodyleong
    @melodyleong 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I used to hate bitter melon. But it once in a restaurant here where thinly sliced bitter melon (like strips with a mandolin), soaked in ice cold water to make it crunchy, and then dip in honey before eating.
    SOOOOOOO GOOOODDD

    • @ezura4760
      @ezura4760 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My favourite was in Ghangzhou where it was served super fresh and pure blanched with a side of soya sauce and fresh chilli dip. I devoured almost the whole plate!

  • @ratihcahyani9438
    @ratihcahyani9438 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great AMA, Pai! I especially love your demonstration on prepping multiple foods at a time. I imagine this can be for those weekly meal plan thing.

  • @dianahenderson
    @dianahenderson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just discovered your channel...and I love your sense of humor! I can now see more Thai food in my future.

  • @OPSteel97
    @OPSteel97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Your energy is infectious! Makes me want to cook new things!

    • @stormybear4986
      @stormybear4986 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      She seems to be a genuinely happy person. They don't call Thailand "The Land of Smiles"for nothing!

  • @blackdog850
    @blackdog850 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely fantastic, perfectly delivered video! Love you channel! 😃

  • @johnnypetro9314
    @johnnypetro9314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Excellent. All the questions were interesting. Also, the skill of smearing cold butter on bread is something Americans learn at an early age and then never think about again.

    • @DarDarBinks1986
      @DarDarBinks1986 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm American and I don't smear butter on bread. For me, butter is more for frying food or for use in baking.

    • @johnnypetro9314
      @johnnypetro9314 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DarDarBinks1986 What do you put on your bread?

  • @therenaissanceredneck8825
    @therenaissanceredneck8825 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Cold butter is one of mine too! I was raised on a farm in NC, USA. We always had room-temperature butter. Love cooking SE Asia and you give me great ideas. SEA has some wonderful SE Asian restaurants. What are some suggestions for people that visiting your lovely city?❤

  • @phoenixr6811
    @phoenixr6811 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite one stop favorite Thai expert🥰 when I started watch your channel, I have learned to love and appreciate Thai food.

  • @score2high
    @score2high 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I can totally relate to your pet peeve about dishes being called 'Thai' for no legimate reason. Mine is similar and it's about dishes being called Hawaiian just because it has pineapples in it. Pineapples were brought into Hawaii, so it's not even a native plant. Or worse yet, calling everyone in Hawaii a Hawaiian. It is being very disrepectable to the native people of Hawaii that has Hawaiian blood. I was born and raise in Hawaii, but don't call myself Hawaiian because I am not.
    Mahalo for this great Q & A!

    • @Jeffffrey0902
      @Jeffffrey0902 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And the Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada…

    • @kibaanazuka332
      @kibaanazuka332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Favorite quote from a teacher of mine:
      "What makes this pizza California?"
      "We just put avocado on it."

    • @score2high
      @score2high 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Jeffffrey0902 There's no such thing as a Hawaiian pizza!

  • @bobdavis1168
    @bobdavis1168 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Outstanding , Outstanding , Outstanding !!! Thank you so much !!!
    Your sense of humor is greatly appreciated !!!

  • @palespectre
    @palespectre 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really appreciate you, Pai! Love Thai food and learned a few from courses in Thailand, your recipes are great and one of the ones I check when experimenting . Thank you for sharing so much.

  • @eralundberg928
    @eralundberg928 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lovely to get your personal opinions and views on a lot of great topics ✨️ interesting and a lot to learn from. Always loved your recipes 🎉

  • @marikawieliczko6902
    @marikawieliczko6902 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a great video, like all your other videos! So glad I discovered your channel recently 😊

  • @Maritime_Homestead
    @Maritime_Homestead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So thoroughly enjoyed this video!!

  • @ficus3929
    @ficus3929 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Woo so glad you shouted out Siam sunset! Great place and I feel like LA is blessed with so many good Thai places.

  • @padders1068
    @padders1068 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pai! Thanks for sharing, educating and entertaining! ❤

  • @Azshmo
    @Azshmo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was wonderful and I learned a lot! Thank you :)

  • @nataliechongtai6430
    @nataliechongtai6430 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are great. I 100% agree with you about serving cold butter! You always make me LOL. Keep telling it like it is!

  • @johnr1348
    @johnr1348 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great video! Thanks Pai!

  • @clintj
    @clintj หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun video... and so many points are spot on

  • @mendex2006
    @mendex2006 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    amazing video as always!

  • @eldoradocanyonro
    @eldoradocanyonro 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I absolutely concur on the bread and butter issue--I'll take the butter and place it on top of something warm for a few minutes and get back to it later.
    Oftentimes the basket of bread is toasty warm and wrapped in a towel, which is a nice warm place for my cold butter....

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for the Q&A video 👍🏻

  • @Ethan54136
    @Ethan54136 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved when you mentioned using restaurant candle to either melt butter or toast the bread. Made me laugh but it's so true!

  • @aoibhealfae
    @aoibhealfae 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    oh... add on the the pictures, Thai food presentation. Usually there's a harmony with genuine Thai dishes especially in restaurants and sometimes in street foods. It's always aesthetically please. Like even with basic mango and sticky rice, sometimes there's different colors of sticky rice (mixed with pandan or palm sugar) or like in Som Tam, you get a mix and splashes of warm colours .Sometimes you get fruit cuttings that's closer to fruit carvings. I went to a restaurant in Krabi that plated their raw vegetables and sambal belacan with pea flowers.

  • @AndyL940
    @AndyL940 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I really enjoyed this chat 😂 I’m in Nakhon Phanom right now and enjoying all the food. There is a strong Vietnamese presence here too. My wife ( she is Thai ) and I think you’re videos are great ❤

  • @charliep9066
    @charliep9066 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Also, you should try a North Indian dish called Punjabi Bharwa Karela (Punjabi Stuffed Bitter Melon). It's fried and stuffed with caramelized onions and spices. Most of the strong bitterness is in the seeds, and they are often removed. However, some people like the crunch and extra bitterness and keep them in. I think the sweetness from the onions and heat from the spices tempers the bitterness to a more pleasant level. It goes well with roti or paranthas. I was trying to leave a link to a website with a recipe, but TH-cam keeps deleting my comment - hopefully this one sticks.

  • @ThePrescriptionable
    @ThePrescriptionable 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This color looks really good on you ka!!!!

  • @jasminnat
    @jasminnat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for the tips for cutting veggies. 😍

  • @user-ut4ce1fd8f
    @user-ut4ce1fd8f 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best instructional cook on Utube bar none, informative, fun, accurate, and authentic, something you see little of in Uk thai restaurant's unfortunately, red and green curry and spring rolls are not staples in thailand :-) Thanks Palin made my day :-)

  • @IrnBruNYC
    @IrnBruNYC 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    More videos like this, I learned a lot!

  • @AndreaszTP
    @AndreaszTP 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Bittermelon straight up steamed is so bad but if you remove most of the bitterness it works really well with other strong tasting ingredients. My mom usually make a spicy bittermelon stir fry with a lot of dried anchovies it's surprisingly really good, it becomes almost like a condiment where you only take a little bit of it to eat with rice and other protein. I used to hate bittermelon in any form but this changed my mind 😂

    • @danielcrafter9349
      @danielcrafter9349 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Put it in Filipino Tinola or Tagalog Pinabek
      Or fry with tomatoes and garlic, then stir in mixed eggs - amazing scrambled eggs 😂

  • @lofiben
    @lofiben 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I totally agree with taking a look at the menu to find out if a place is authentic or not but I do think the demographics of the area really do influence what you'll find on the menu. My parents owned several restaurants all in different areas and catering to different demographics. The first one was in a white-majority area so most of the food we served was basic Thai food with Americanized Chinese food to stay in business. The second one was in an Asian majority area and we served much more authentic Thai dishes like guay jub.
    I admire those who are brave enough to add more unique and less common Thai dishes to their menus but in the end, but it all depends on whether the people around there will want to eat them or not.

  • @jackienaiditch7965
    @jackienaiditch7965 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very entertaining and informative. Oh, and funny! Thanks so much.

  • @rainbowgeek3284
    @rainbowgeek3284 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Omg you’re planning to come to seattle!? I’m so excited already!!!!

  • @davidfletcher4449
    @davidfletcher4449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some really good tips!!!!

  • @stevef.8708
    @stevef.8708 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Bitter melon is great! Try Okinawan Goya Chanpuru with lots of kōrēgūsu (chilis infused in rice alcohol) is fantastic and may change your mind. ❤

  • @inspiringsmile
    @inspiringsmile 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you for all that you do!

  • @shannijones4587
    @shannijones4587 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bought the cookbook! I love it!

  • @energygal00
    @energygal00 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyed this episode lots, all great questions and what fantastic answers by Pai Lin . Love your videos, Pai Lin. One of my favorite chef of all time. ❤ imagine this, I’m living in Thailand but I look for Pai Lin in Vancouver for my Thai or Chinese dish recipes 😂

  • @user-cm8eu1vj2p
    @user-cm8eu1vj2p 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome questions and extremely helpful answers! I lived in BKK for five years and I miss the people and food every day! Your videos are extremely helpful for when I want to recreate legit Thai food in the States....kap khun ka :)

  • @DannyStrange236
    @DannyStrange236 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm Thai and I have padthai very often. I love it.

  • @drypotatoandjam4180
    @drypotatoandjam4180 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these types of videos ❤

  • @jerry11111
    @jerry11111 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bitten melon is popular in some parts of china. We dont get rid of the bitter taste of it but lower it down so it combines well with other ingredients.

  • @damobdaking
    @damobdaking 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You inspired me to get a rice cooker, and life is so much better. So big thanks

  • @danmccarthy4700
    @danmccarthy4700 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OK... so I just discovered and subscribed to your channel and have been sort of binging your content over the past week or so. I have to say this is one of my favorite of your videos. The bitter melon rant is hilarious, especially the way you deliver "How about a zucchini???".

  • @craznutz4427
    @craznutz4427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always good to see someone with the correct take on bitter melon. I had it once in a Filipino dish that included cow bile as one of the ingredients. To this day, I suspect that the bile was in there to improve the taste of the bitter melon.

  • @joshdaniels2363
    @joshdaniels2363 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I think part of what's behind those pad thai questions is that folks are wondering whether it's an "American" Thai dish in the way that most of what Americans find on "Chinese" menus isn't really "Chinese" but "American Chinese."

  • @lunarpollen
    @lunarpollen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hahaha 100% agree with the cold butter thing, also used the table candle method to melt the butter countless times!

  • @MichMichMe
    @MichMichMe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “Why do we grow these things?!” 🤣. Personally, I have a similar feeling about oysters. Love your channel❤️

  • @joncowley1
    @joncowley1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are amazing! If I want to cook Thai food, I check your videos first!

  • @katsybo
    @katsybo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Pailin💙💙💙

  • @nicholasrv8834
    @nicholasrv8834 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hilarious. You are always so sweet and "Thai' and "sabai" in all your vids, and suddenly, you go off on hard butter. Loved it. Going to BKK on Wednesday, can't wait for some chicken rice with lots of ginger. yum. (maybe your grandma's? )

  • @MalReaver
    @MalReaver 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I loved all of the questions and all of your answers, but when bitter melon came up you made me laugh! I do like bitter melon and all I do before stir frying it is to slice it and sprinkle a bit of salt on then let it sit for 15 minutes and rinse it off.

  • @amyjesko9434
    @amyjesko9434 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a GREAT video!!!

  • @billwatters4833
    @billwatters4833 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I noted you were rather scornful about broccoli. I was reminded of the evenings when I sat at my favourite restaurant in Chiang Rai and watched the cook strip the skin of the Pak Kai Lan before cooking it. It was my favourite Thai vegetable. I thought I'd never be able to find it here in the UK but hey, we have long tender-stem broccoli which is almost the same as Kai Lan but not quite. Now I grow a selection of oriental herbs and vegetables my life has become more complete.

  • @writingraven3314
    @writingraven3314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was very interesting. Thank you. Question(s): Is Pad See Ew an authentic Thai dish? And how do you feel about jarred Tom Yum sauces? I bought one at my local asain grocer and it almost tasted like water. Do you have any prepared Tom Yum sauce recommendations?

  • @airreaper1
    @airreaper1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the answers!

  • @deanstephens3163
    @deanstephens3163 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Candle hack love it. ❤

  • @aroundtheworldin80coffees79
    @aroundtheworldin80coffees79 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your videos. I've turned a few co-workers onto your noodle dishes. For the next AMA: What regional Thai dish is hardest to find outside of its region? Can you make it?

  • @jhy8191
    @jhy8191 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love what you said about disliking seeing one Thai dish at a non-Thais restaurant. I feel the same whenever I see any random Thai, Chinese, Indian, Japanese etc. dish at a Western restaurant, except I've never verbalize why I dislike it as well as you did.

  • @johngohchuanheng3417
    @johngohchuanheng3417 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pad thai , one of my faved food , and thanks for answering one the question about it hahahah

  • @cguy96
    @cguy96 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You almost had me with the red and green curry!
    On an unrelated note, religious restrictions prohibit my use of shrimp paste. What can I use instead (call it the impossible question)?
    Glad I found you, great channel-subscribing now!

    • @adamthehtkminion6750
      @adamthehtkminion6750 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Adam here! ... and not impossible :) ... in fact there is a sub suggestion (miso) in hot-thai-kitchen.com/vegan-green-curry/. Cheers and have fun!

    • @cguy96
      @cguy96 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also just moved back to Seattle, and so will try to make everyone on this channel jealous by hopefully attending the local even with Kenji López-Alt!

    • @cguy96
      @cguy96 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamthehtkminion6750 thanks! I have tried miso, but I haven’t been completely satisfied (sadly, I KNOW what shrimp paste tastes like, and I actually like it😢). I have tried shiro miso (white) and shinshu miso (yellow). Maybe I need to try aka miso (red) or even hatcho miso (dark red with no added grains).

  • @ingfakirata2132
    @ingfakirata2132 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm Thai but who wasn't a pad thai lover since I was born. One day, my life changed ever because I tried a bite of Pad Thai in Somtum restaurant at Mega Bangna, Bangkok. The restaurant's name is Tum Tum. It's my the best pad thai so far!

  • @greyecologyst4694
    @greyecologyst4694 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ugh shrimp paste fried rice 🤤 I would love more adventurous thai recipes like that.

  • @Peter-cm8vi
    @Peter-cm8vi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks Pai, great advice as usual. Regarding the first question, I was advised to just order yam woonsen and see if it was good. Anyone else have a benchmark dish suggestion?

    • @PailinsKitchen
      @PailinsKitchen  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If there was a benchmark dish it should be pad thai, because 95% of the time it's bad so if it's good, there is hope.

    • @Peter-cm8vi
      @Peter-cm8vi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I just had the worst pad Thai in the Bangkok airport. I had the best pad Thai in Karon Beach, Phuket.

  • @VicBattlefield
    @VicBattlefield 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    🥦Poor broccoli! This was a very interesting and entertaining video as always, Khun Pai. Thank you!

    • @kibaanazuka332
      @kibaanazuka332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      One of my favorite Thai restaurants uses broccoli in some dishes, but they use Chinese broccoli instead of regular broccoli. Which is a different taste & texture than regular broccoli.

  • @fajarsetiawan8665
    @fajarsetiawan8665 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best Pad Thai I've ever had was from a university canteen in Mahidol University's Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in Salaya. And even though I'm foreigner, this Pad Thai was also madly popular between local students. The line was usually so long the vendor had to limit the order to 20 buyers with 1-2 orders of Pad Thai each.

  • @jackyboygee777
    @jackyboygee777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Pai, another great video, which i learned a lot from of course, thank you so much, take good care gorgeous, muwahhhhhhhhh😍😍😍😘😘😘

  • @StewNWT
    @StewNWT 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pai if you’re ever in Melbourne Australia I strongly recommend Yim Yam - best Thai/Laotian restaurant I’ve ever eaten at. So many unique things on their menu - my favourite is the duck crepe with Asian slaw and dill sauce

    • @AdamHotThaiKitchen
      @AdamHotThaiKitchen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks! I'll pass that on :) Cheers! Adam

    • @StewNWT
      @StewNWT 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      also the best waterfall beef salad I've ever had

  • @erikwilson9498
    @erikwilson9498 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have watched you for years and am still learning new stuff! Pad kaprao is more to my liking

  • @coreyw5981
    @coreyw5981 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For legit-ness, you mentioned an interesting menu. I love finding the northern Thailand or laos restaurant. Thats when youre guarantee to have the good stuff. Its funny that its always a separate menu from the main standard options

  • @erickfrago7224
    @erickfrago7224 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hi Pai. I hope you get to meet someone from Okinawa, Japan so you can try an authentic Goya Champuru that uses also Okinawan Tofu. They will explain to you how to enjoy it, bitterness and all. It is an acquired taste yes, but as a Filipino, when i cooked Ginisang Ampalaya (sauteed bittermelon with eggs, quite similar to goya champuru minus the tofu),I prefer to leave the bitterness

  • @runwader
    @runwader 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    a lot of Thai restaurants that i've been to in Bangkok have Pad Thai on the menu, the exceptions are the ones that specialize in a certain dish or seafood

  • @jackyu1143
    @jackyu1143 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HAHAHA... Pailin, your rants got me laughing. I can relate to the things you said. Yeah, finding food purportedly from a country when I'm in a restaurant serving other stuff makes me mad. That part about cold butter too. Lol. 🤣

  • @nobeliefisok9174
    @nobeliefisok9174 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Good to know Pad Thai is a lot like Brisket in the USA. That's how I imagined it, a good tasty dish that people do really like, but they dont eat it all the time. And restaurants have to put extra effort to include on the menu.

    • @PailinsKitchen
      @PailinsKitchen  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Totally!

    • @willowpitbull47
      @willowpitbull47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      While in school, I worked at a Thai restaurant. The owners told us to always recommend "Pad Thai". One day, I asked "why?" He said the ingredients are cheap, it was the most profitable food.😅

    • @CameronsCookingChannel
      @CameronsCookingChannel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd imagined Pad Se Ew was the cheapest. A restaurant near me charges $19 for either Pad Thai or Pad Se Ew. One comes with tofu, onion/chives, egg, peanut, sprouts and lime... The other is just a similar portion of noodles with egg broccoli and sauce. @@willowpitbull47

    • @rattapoomkotchapong1674
      @rattapoomkotchapong1674 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Padthai is one of those thing that occupies half the kitchen. Too much work for something that peopel don't order too often. You want Padthai, you go to Padthai place.

  • @kunkelyeet1738
    @kunkelyeet1738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Restaurant candle hack is going in the books lol for sure going to use this

  •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One thing missing from the 'How to know if a Thai restaurant is "legit"' was your comment from the Prik Nam Pla video.
    "That if I'm in a Thai restaurant here and I asked for it, and they don't know what I'm talking about. I am walking out."
    Something I have started to look out for, since I watched that video.

  • @domciancibelli
    @domciancibelli 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just watched your Q&A. Great. I am addicted to your vlog, your smile, your sense of humor and am jealous of your husband. You are as he knows a beautiful lady AND you cook Thai. Anyway have you ever thought of giving us an overall recipe for a complete Thai dinner for company? An assembling of “these go well together” as a complete meal? That would be killer.
    A frustrated old Italian man wanna be Thai chef,
    Dominic

    • @AdamHotThaiKitchen
      @AdamHotThaiKitchen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Adam here - and that's an excellent question! If you want to ask her that one directly rather that put it out to the community though (as she doesn't see the comments on here once the post is more than a week old), you can check out all the options to get hold of her at hot-thai-kitchen.com/contact . (If you send an email I'll see it as well, so say hi :))Cheers!

  • @MrFirePunch
    @MrFirePunch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really looking forward to your future event in Seattle!
    Do you live here? Respect to Kenji but I'm way more excited to see you 😄
    Can you be sure to let us know the details on TH-cam, for those of us that don't have social media? Cheers! ♥️

  • @craigblum5385
    @craigblum5385 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video

  • @nobodycares112
    @nobodycares112 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your cooking!! You gave me the courage to go to my local Asian market and purchase a pork belly with rind and will be following your recipe to a T for that. I know this is not Thai but I wanted to ask becase you are so extremely on point with everything you do. Do you have a recommendation for lumpia in the market? I have had so many let downs trying to purchase "good" ones and NO i am not rolling my own ;) Thank you so much!!

    • @AdamHotThaiKitchen
      @AdamHotThaiKitchen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Adam here - and good question! If you want to ask her that one directly though rather that put it out to the community (as she doesn't see the comments on here once the post is more than a week old as per her note above), you can check out all the options to get hold of her at hot-thai-kitchen.com/contact . Cheers!

  • @randyclary8635
    @randyclary8635 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Life after the baby comes along. We all think our lives were full and busy, but after the baby arrived we looked at each other and said "What did we used to do with all the free time we had before?" Thanks for a great video Pai. Oh my, I do like bitter mellon seeded and sliced into half rounds then simmered in mung bean soup. YUM!!! 555

  • @NattyBuns
    @NattyBuns 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Siam Sunset is great! My dad and I dine there all the time