{"id":615,"date":"2010-04-10T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/615"},"modified":"2010-04-10T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T09:55:00","slug":"easy-thai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Easy Thai"},"content":{"rendered":"

While living in Thailand, we\u2019ve discovered the amazing phenomenon of \u201cEasy Thai\u201d (the phrase came from the back page of a menu at Rom Jinda, one of the few restaurants we frequent that actually has an English menu). \u201cEasy Thai\u201d is a set of dishes that can be found at just about any rarn ar harn <\/em>dtarm sang<\/em> (\u201cfood to order\u201d stall) in town, whether they advertise it or not. It is a subset of Thai food that consists primarily of stir-fry dishes, mostly served khao rad <\/em>(over rice), including:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
  Pad Prik Giang<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with red curry paste, Thai eggplant, lime leaves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad Kra Pao<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with chili and basil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad Thai<\/a><\/td>\n  Rice noodles fried \u201cThai style\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad See Iw<\/a><\/td>\n  Wide rice noodles with morning glory and other vegetables<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Kratiem Prik Thai<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with garlic and pepper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad Mit Monmuang<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with cashew nuts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad Prik<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with fresh chilies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Pad king<\/td>\n  Stir-fried with ginger and mushrooms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Kai jiao<\/td>\n  Thai omelet with tomatoes and onions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

You can also specify the base of your dish, otherwise you will likely wind up with pork (the usual default):<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
  Jay<\/td>\n  Vegetables<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Moo<\/td>\n  Pork<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Gai<\/td>\n  Chicken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
  Ta-hoo<\/td>\n  Tofu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For noodle dishes, you should request the width of the noodles: sen yai <\/em>(wide), sen lak <\/em>(medium, fettuccini-width), or sen mee <\/em>(thin, vermicelli-width). Otherwise you may get a surprise when your Pad See Iw shows up sen mee<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Finally, frequenters of Easy Thai often add other modifiers, such as kai dao <\/em>(with a fried egg on top), pet prik <\/em>(spicy), or sei gong <\/em>(to go). It\u2019s kind of like ordering coffee in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Easy Thai has become a staple of my lunch-runs, as it is cheap, fast, fresh, and delicious. At a rarn ar harn <\/em>dtarm sang<\/em>, an easy Thai dish runs 25-35 Baht (~$0.75-$1; meat and fried eggs can add a few Baht to the cost). My current favorites are pad prik giang<\/em>, pad thai sen yai<\/em>, and pad kra pao<\/em>. I\u2019ve never seen pad prik giang <\/em>on menus at home, but when I return to Seattle I\u2019ll have to ask Jamjuree if they\u2019ll make it for me!<\/p>\n

\"Pad<\/a>
Pad Thai sen yai \u2013 a delicious new twist on an old classic<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pad kra pao jay kai dao \u2013 spicy vegetables with basil and a fried egg<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While living in Thailand, we\u2019ve discovered the amazing phenomenon of \u201cEasy Thai\u201d (the phrase came from the back page of a menu at Rom Jinda, one of the few restaurants we frequent that actually has an English menu). \u201cEasy Thai\u201d is a set of dishes that can be found at just about any rarn ar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,89,78,79],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-chilies","tag-food","tag-thai-food","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}