> Was the best trip of my life and I never had the opportunity to be in Asia but after 1 year of experience with Thai Food and French Food I retourne to my country Brazil .
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Pad Thai
Possibly one of the most recognised Thai foods abroad, pad thai might not be the most widely consumed dish inside Thailand – we’d probably give that gong to somtum, a fiery papaya salad from the northeast – but it is nonetheless certainly a popular meal among Thais. Whereas abroad it is often found made with chicken, pork, beef and other meats in order to cater to foreign tastes, in authentic Thai cuisine it is almost always eaten simply with dried shrimps and tofu, and optionally a generous helping of fresh, shell-on prawns for an added taste of the sea.
Pad Thai’s Nationalist History
But what most of those who tuck into a plate of pad thai while holidaying in Thailand don’t know is that there is a back story in the history of pad thai and the introduction to Thai cuisine of a noodle dish that is, at its roots, essentially Chinese. Pad thai is only a relatively recent entrant to the Thai food arena, and traces its origins to a period of ultra-nationalism in Thailand in the wake of the 1932 revolution that ended absolute monarchy and gave rise to the democratic system of constitutional monarchy that has existed since.
As part of the campaign to promote Thai nationalism led by then prime minister Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram in the late 1930s, a public contest was held to find a new national noodle dish – and the winning entry was the plate of rice noodles, preserved radish, beansprouts, peanuts and egg that we know and love today. But there was more to it than that. The wider aim at the time was to westernise and modernise Thailand, a country which had taken on this new name as a replacement for Siam. Part of the plan was to weaken the influence of China, hence the deliberate move away from the wheat noodles which were popular at the time.
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