" > wrote:
> AnnaBanana wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am thinking of making my own pad thai soon. I absolutely love eating
> > it at restaurants but I don't know if I could handle making it myself.
> > Does anyone have a good/easy recipe for it?
> >
> > thanks!

> You should read Chez Pim's exhaustive post on Pad Thai:
>
> http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/200...ai_for_be.html
>
> Its not some much a recipe as a description of the process and the
> choices to be made. Its good reading though.
>
> Nick - I prefer tamarind juice to ketchup, feeling that its more
> authentic, if such a term really belongs in a discussion of Pad Thai.

Iaian, please note that, while she uses tamarind in many recipes, Jun uses
paprika, not ketchup, in Pad Thai! ;-)

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