
Master easy Pad Thai and other street Thai dishes with simple recipes, focusing on noodles and authentic flavors.
Start with beginner-friendly lessons that cover basic knowledge, then progress to later recipes, or skip ahead and explore at your own pace.
Discover Pad Thai, a national Thai dish of stir-fried rice noodles with dried shrimps, eggs, tofu, bean sprouts, tamarind-based sauce, and meats, served with lime and peanuts.
Learn how to serve Pad Thai with common accompaniments such as chives, bean sprouts, ground peanuts, chili, sugar, and lime, and how to plate or share the dish.
Discover easy Pad Thai recipes from a street Thai food cooking class in an ebook of noodle recipes.
Learn Pad Thai ingredients, including fresh and dry rice noodles, Chinese chive, bean sprouts, shallots, tofu, sweet preserved daikon radish, dried shrimp, eggs, Pad Thai sauce, and meat options.
Learn Pad Thai preparation by trimming bean sprouts, chopping shallots and preserved daikon radish, dicing tofu, soaking dried shrimp, and handling meat with hygiene tips for fresh storage.
Prepare shrimps, remove the black line from both sides, and keep the heads for cooking to enjoy the creamy shrimp head juice.
Learn core Thai home-cooking techniques with stir-frying, heat control, and stepwise seasoning adjustments to master flavor profiles. Practice safe heat management to avoid burning and adapt recipes to your taste.
Explore how to prepare and store dried rice noodles for cooking, with practical tips drawn from a Pad Thai street food cooking class for easy Thai noodle dishes.
Master stir-frying Pad Thai noodles by using a ladle to shake and break them so they don’t stick, keep their shape, and use tongs when mixing is difficult.
Learn to cook a classic Pad Thai recipe with an egg wrap, using dried rice noodles and flexible protein options like tofu, seafood, pork, or chicken.
Learn to make classic Pad Thai by stir-frying dried shrimps, fried tofu, shallots, and noodles with fish sauce, sugar, and eggs, then serve with lime and grounded chili and peanuts.
Explore tamarind's roles in Thai cooking, beauty and household uses, from souring sauces to polishing metals, plus tips on choosing and distinguishing sweet and sour tamarind.
Learn to make tamarind paste by soaking tamarind pulp to extract the flesh, then crush and sieve with water to create a paste you can refrigerate for a month.
Learn to make a tamarind-based Pad Thai sauce with tamarind paste, fish sauce, and salt, including tasting before use and storing a small batch for a week.
Melt palm sugar with water over low to medium heat, then simmer with sugar, salt, tamarind paste, and fish sauce to make a balanced Pad Thai sauce; cool and refrigerate.
Master a classic pad thai with dried shrimps, tofu, egg, bean sprouts and Chinese chives by sautéing shallots, half-cooked rice noodles, then folding in pad thai sauce and sweet soy.
Cook Pad Thai with chicken by stir-frying noodles with egg, dried shrimps, tofu, shallots, and daikon radish, then finish with Pad Thai sauce, bean sprouts, chives, and an egg omelet.
Cook a quick Pad Thai with crispy pork belly and green beans, crisp the pork, then stir-fry shallots, rice noodles, water, Pad Thai sauce, and combine with pork and beans.
Learn to make pad thai with shrimps, from preparing shrimps and shallots to stir-frying with rice noodles, pad thai sauce, tofu, bean sprouts, chives, and egg.
Learn to prepare pad thai glass noodles with dried shrimp by soaking for 15 to 20 minutes, wrapping them in a thin egg sheet, and folding into a compact roll.
Learn to make the classic Pad Thai egg wrap and noodles with a street Thai food twist using this easy recipe.
Discover a vegan Pad Thai version with tofu as the key protein, dry rice noodles, bean sprouts, and other classic toppings.
Prepare dry rice noodles and chop Chinese chives or garlic leeks, then assemble sweet preserved dikon radish, bean sprouts, and crumbled tofu to mimic egg in a vegan Pad Thai.
Fry tofu until flavorful, add sweet preserved dikon radish and crumbed tofu, toss pad thai noodles with water, season with soy sauce and sugar, add chives and bean sprouts, plate.
Learn to toast and grind peanuts to a crunchy Thai style, peel shells efficiently with a plastic basket, and store ground peanuts for longer shelf life and versatile uses.
Learn to make Thai chili flakes, a versatile heat booster for salads, noodles, and dipping sauces, using dried bird's eye chiles; homemade flakes offer stronger flavor.
Roast dried chilies with salt on low heat, then pound into flakes using a mortar and pestle or grinder; salt reduces irritation and moisture.
Learn to make chili flakes at home by grinding or hand pounding, compare results, store in airtight containers for months, and follow safety tips to vent and rinse if irritated.
Pad Thai is a long-time Thai favourite dish. It is popular Thai Food and easy to find anywhere in Thailand: at food courts, on street food stalls, local markets, local restaurants and high-end restaurants.
The variety of Pad Thai dishes is wide and there is an endless way of enjoying this dish. Different parts of the country have different ways of cooking the dish to make it unique and delicious. The traditional way is very simple and the original Pad Thai recipe. Just cook noodles at high heat with egg, Chinese chives, bean sprouts, chopped sweet preserved daikon radish, Tofu, dried shrimps and ground peanuts. Season the stir-fried noodles with fish sauce, sugar and ground chilli.
Not only is the taste tempting but the texture of Pad Thai noodles is moist and gooey.
The noodles for Pad Thai in Thailand are usually fresh noodles from markets which are locally produced in every province in Thailand and dried noodles, particularly from Chantaburi (a province in eastern Thailand). It calls “Sen Chan” or Chantaburi noodles. Chantaburi dried noodles are famous because of their quality, and once cooked are particularly soft and gooey.
With this reputation, Pad Thai Sen Chan noodles are one of the popular variations with a specific type of the main ingredient and are well-known throughout the country.
I recall when I was a child. I lived in a shophouse nearby the city’s market and I lived nearby one of the shophouses which sold Pad Thai. I liked to go nearby to that place to watch them cooking Pad Thai. It was always busy with people eating Pad Thai or waiting to take it home.
If you love Thai food and you have ever cooked Pad Thai but didn’t get the result as you eat at a restaurant or while eating during your trip in Thailand.
- You never get the taste right, not even close.
- Your stir-fry noodles are soggy and the noodles are cut into small pieces.
- When you finish cooking your noodles stir fry is chewy, sticky catching in roll together, and difficult to eat.
I had the same problems. I never like cooking Pad Thai at home. But you know what, my problems are solved after I tried to practice and discovered small techniques cooking at home and I love cooking Pad Thai even more and am passionate about it.
These cooking classes will help you to enjoy Pad Thai the same as you eat the dish in Thailand.
This course gives you easy-to-follow recipes that you can make at home bringing the authentic local Thai Street food to your kitchen and eating like a Thai.
See you in the kitchen.