I was feeling ravenous while in the Sunday Legaspi (apparently used to be called San Lorenzo market) market. But I couldn’t decide on what item to get and finally, after, maybe 5 rounds of going around, I settled on the pad thai.
I have tried making pad thai, a bit unsuccesful at that. It was borderline okay, but not really brilliant. I decided to watch someone who was selling pad thai cook it so I can at least find ideas on how to cook mine. 🙂
He was cooking for 4 servings, I later found out. Tons of diced onions were sauteed topped with some eggs.
This was then topped with diced fried tofu and something I couldn’t figure out. Plus spring onion, copious amounts of noodles and lots of mung bean sprouts. Then the seasonings followed, which I am assuming were the following: fish sauce, lime juice and some vinegar and possibly some water too.
Then the shrimp was heated with more water. Scooped in a styro package lined with foil, topped with nuts and something else. And ta dah!
Comments? I liked the texture of the noodles. A bit of slushy slippery properly coated with the sauce which made it flavorful. But the sharp vinegary taste was to strong for me. :s I wasn’t too keen on that. And just a suggestion, use smaller shrimp, or have the option to dice the shrimps to spread it into thenoodles. 🙂 Or maybe even just half it along the spine so there’s a cuter presentation and feeling of shrimp heaven all over.
At P195, price seems okay. And I actually have some brilliant ideas to try when I make my next try 🙂
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