Pad thai?

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I'm usually great at getting recipes to work. But I'm having problems with getting a good pad thai. I can make ok pad thai', but not great.

I must have tried about 8 or so diffrent recipes now and they all fail.

So anyone got a decent recipe they know works well. How do restaurants get the pink colour, is it just a bit of tomato puree. Also the recipe I tried tonight had Tamarind extract in it. None of the others have.

How can such a simple dish be so hard to get right.
 
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Pataayy
 
My girlfriends the manager of a pub which serves Thai food. I could ask the Chef's for you but it could be difficult, they hardly speak a word of english lol. At least you know its real Thai! :D
 
whats wrong with cat or dog meat? as long as it tastes nice.
No diffrent to seafood. (was trying to think of a meat scavenger we eat). Meats meat, if it tastes nice, couldn't really care what animal it came from.
 
whats wrong with cat or dog meat? as long as it tastes nice.
No diffrent to seafood. (was trying to think of a meat scavenger we eat). Meats meat, if it tastes nice, couldn't really care what animal it came from.

Thats what I was getting at in a tongue-in-cheek way (Pedigree Cats). Im a carnivore, Ill eat just about anything (meat wise) :D
 
I'm usually great at getting recipes to work. But I'm having problems with getting a good pad thai. I can make ok pad thai', but not great.

I must have tried about 8 or so diffrent recipes now and they all fail.

So anyone got a decent recipe they know works well. How do restaurants get the pink colour, is it just a bit of tomato puree. Also the recipe I tried tonight had Tamarind extract in it. None of the others have.

How can such a simple dish be so hard to get right.

My sisters did a Thai cooking course when she was out there and has proper thai cooking books she brought back from her trip to Thailand....leave it with me and I'll ask her for the recipe when I speak to her tonight (hopefully!)
 
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