variants
often pad Thai
: a Thai dish consisting of rice noodles stir-fried usually with any of various additional ingredients (such as bean sprouts, peanuts, chicken, shrimp, and egg)
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Thai is known for its curry and pad thai, while Grace serves up standout steak and seafood dishes.
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2026
Which means that that $20 pad thai could be just the beginning.
—Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
The menu features popular Thai and Lao dishes like pad thai, pad ka pow mussaman, chicken satay and various other meat, noodle, curry and rice dishes.
—Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
In what sure felt like an omen to me, earlier this year, DoorDash announced a partnership with the payment-by-installment company Klarna, thereby allowing customers to pay off an order of pad thai over several months.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Pad thai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pad%20thai. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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