Pad Thai

Pad Thai (Thai: ผัดไทย, IPA: [pʰát tʰāj]), also known as Phat Thai, is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as street food and a popular entree in Thai restaurants internationally. The dish is typically made with rice noodles, eggs, tofu, shrimp, garlic or shallots, tamarind pulp, fish sauce, dried shrimp, garlic chives, red chili pepper and palm sugar, and served with lime wedges and often chopped roast peanuts. The dish is often wrapped in lettuce leaves and eaten with a fork and spoon. The dish is also known as Kuay Teow Pad Thai (ก๋วยเตี๋ยวผัดไทย) in Thai, which translates to "stir-fried Thai-style noodles." In Hebrew, it is called פד טאי (Pad Thai). In Chinese, it is known as 泰式炒河粉 (Tàishì chǎo héfěn), and in Japanese, it is called パッタイ (Pattai). The dish is believed to have been invented in the 1930s by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, a former prime minister of Thailand, as part of a campaign to reduce domestic rice consumption and promote noodles as a staple food.