Pad Thai is magic food
Jan 10th, 2009
Whenever I eat Pad Thai, I am amazed by its ability to provide a seemingly unending amount of food. At restaurants it comes out to the table heaped high on the plate, thanks I suppose to the stickiness of the rice noodles and whatever other goopy things they put in there; I eat until I'm full and still feel like I haven't made a dent. For take-out the effect is even more dramatic, as one serving easily fills bowls for both of us. And it turns out that the home-made stuff has the same effect, whatever the number of servings predicted by the recipe may say. Perhaps the UN World Food Program ought to look into harnessing the phenomenon in some way?