Pad means "fried" in Thai, Thai means Thailand, and Pad Thai means "Thai fried", which is actually a kind of fried noodles. In recent years, this kind of fried noodles is very popular in the United States, and has become a standard in American Thai restaurants. With more and more tourists from China coming to Thailand, Thai food has become very famous among tourists from China.
The most famous Thai chow mein shop in Thailand is "Tishamai Thai chow mein" located in Mahachai Road, Bangkok, which is the oldest Thai chow mein shop in Thailand, dating back to the middle of World War II. Now, the five woks in the store keep turning every day, and Thai and foreign tourists outside the store line up for a big meal.
"Ti" means "God gives" in Thai, and "Mai Sha" comes from the name of chef Mai Sha Pak Shammo when the store was founded. Ben, a senior employee of the store, said that Mai Sha came here to open a fried noodle shop during World War II. At that time, the store didn't have its own name, so it was called "Ghost Gate Fried Noodles" in the name of the area where the store was located. It was not until September 9th, 1966, that it was officially renamed as "Tishamai Thai style fried noodles", which has been more than 50 years. Today, this old-fashioned Thai fried noodle shop is still the "leader" of Thai fried noodles, and the egg-wrapped noodles they developed are very popular.
Mai Sha Baisha Mo has passed away. Cuo Baishamo, her husband, said that the early Thai fried noodles were mixed with scrambled eggs and sugar, with few ingredients. Later, in order to improve the taste experience, shrimp juice was added, which became the characteristic of this fried noodle shop. According to him, during World War II, Thai Prime Minister Tompivan Sokhan invented Thai fried noodles. The Prime Minister also recognized that their restaurant is the best restaurant for Thai fried noodles and invited foreign guests to taste it.
According to an earlier report in Thailand's Thai newspaper, Luan Piwen Songkan appealed to the people to eat more kway teow, that is, China Chaoshan-style noodles, because the price of jasmine fragrant rice rose in the late World War II. However, since the kway teow is a China food, it emphasizes that the "Thailand" random Piwensongkan is the foundation of China kway teow.
Since then, Thai fried noodles have become popular in Thailand. At first, they were made from rice flour produced by kway teow factories all over Thailand. Later, a China kway teow factory in Zhuangta Li Wu produced rice noodles with a long shelf life, so they all used this kind of "Zhuangta rice noodles".
In an article published by David Farley, a travel column of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is mentioned that a Thai fried noodle chef, Sirikaran Shawadi, believes that rice noodles and fried noodles are the core of Thai fried noodles, both of which were introduced to Thailand from China 250 years ago. Moreover, ingredients of Thai fried noodles, such as tofu and shrimp, were obviously introduced into Thailand from China. Because of the different innovative ingredients, the control of sweet, salty and sour tastes is different, and the presentation of Thai fried noodles is also different. For example, some shops still choose to put them on plates, while others put them on banana leaves.
But in any case, this kind of Thai fried noodles, like Thai culture, has absorbed the essence of many foreign cultures, including China culture, and has produced different exotic flowers after evolution and transformation.