What is Pad Thai ?? Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It’s made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein – the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp. Our Pad Thai recipe, developed from poring over Thai street food videos, has all the ingredients/info you need to make authentic Pad Thai ! Pad thai (/ ˌpɑːd ˈtaɪ / or / ˌpæd ˈtaɪ /; Thai : ผัดไทย, RTGS: phat thai , ISO: p̄hạd thịy, pronounced [pʰàt̚ tʰāj] ⓘ) is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food in Thailand as part of Thai cuisine. [1][2] It is typically made with rice noodles, shrimp, peanuts, scrambled egg, sugar and ... Joshua Weissman shares the ultimate Pad Thai recipe with perfect balance of sweet, sour, and savory. Better than your favorite takeout.