The irresistible combination of salty, sweet, sour, and earthy flavors helped pad thai win new fans all over the globe, especially in countries where the local fare lacked aggressive spice. Popularizing a noodle dish was one means to that end.” Pad thai getting tossed at the Wat Thai Temple food marketĪs Gastronomica points out, the midcentury pad thai recipes specified ingredients but not quantities, per se, leaving the actual execution open to interpretation and customization. In the book Materializing Thailand, anthropologist Penny Van Esterik writes about Pibulsonggram’s pad thai crusade: “His series of decrees from 1939–1942 suggested what could be done to strengthen the Thai economy, to instill national image and pride - and to improve the national diet. All the ingredients came together in a preparation that was considered a highly-sanitary operation at the time: tossing the greens, noodles, and meat in a very hot metal pan that could could be easily cleaned on the spot. The popular recipe for pad thai used cheap, plentiful rice noodles, and an assortment of vegetables that could be easily sourced from local farmers. Tied to his efforts to modernize and to some extent re-brand Thailand, Pibulsonggram promoted pad thai by supplying his people with a standardized recipe and also encouraging vendors to use small carts as streetside noodle kitchens. Plaek Pibulsonggram, Thailand’s prime minster from 1938 to 1944 and from 1948 to 1957, is largely credited with popularizing the dish and establishing the basic recipe that’s still commonly used today. The precise origins of pad thai - or kway teow pad thai as it’s called in Thailand - are hard to trace, but the food journal Gastronomica notes that settlers from southern China likely brought some rudimentary version of the stir-fried rice noodle dish to the country a very long time ago.
From that point, the colorful characters embark on a pad thai odyssey: Google In this doodle, the Google letters are in the middle of a frenzied noodle-making session, with the first O carrying a giant spoon, and an ecstatic G running towards a cookbook-wielding E. And today, the search engine’s homepage features an ode to one of the world’s most delectable noodle dishes: pad thai. But every once in a while, the Google overlords do something special for food lovers around the globe by creating a culinary-themed illustration.
The daily Google Doodle, that interactive/animated drawing that hangs at the top of the world’s most popular search engine, often focuses on holidays, birthdays of important people, and anniversaries of historical events.
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