hello hi everyone! Today we’re adding to our series on comically racist sh*t from TV and Film with some liberal inspiration from that one wildly racist scene from Lady and the Tramp. If you’re like me, I certainly grew up using this clip as my main reference point for Siam, which is the former name of the geographic region now known as Thailand. Now, other than being one of the native origins of the Siamese cat, Thailand is home to some of the most delicious rice noodle dishes that you will ever eat. So! I thought I’d use this as an excuse to get to a request that a lot of folks have asked for, which is a Thai dish called Pad Kee Mao or “Thai Drunken Noodles,” as it is known as here in the states.

For those following along, a Pad Kee Mao actually has many similarities to another noodle dish which we have already done, which is a pad see ew. Not only do both rely heavily on the use of dark soy sauce and oyster sauce, but they also prominently features the ingredient which many of you may know as the my personal arch nemesis, which is fresh chow fun rice noodles. Aside from our chow fun and dark soy sauce elements however, a pad kee mao also contains a few additional veggies which you won’t find in a pad see ew, which traditionally just contain gailan. Hope you try it!

It will be out on Friday May 14th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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