• Bananigans@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Maybe, but I think his point is that pad Thai isn’t a spicy dish to begin with. So it would be a weird complaint to make in the first place.

      • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I don’t pretend to be an expert on thai food, so I can’t speak to the “traditional” way to prepare it, but in my experience pass thai being spicy is about 50/50 at restaurants I’ve been to, and there certainly isn’t anything wrong with asking it to be made spicy

        • Iceman@lemmygrad.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Pad Thai isn’t even a “traditional dish” in the sense that it s old and costumary. It was invented in the 30’s as a part of nationalist project.

          • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I mean, I’d say a dish that’s 100 years old is fairly old and customary at this point. Not ancient or anything, but 100 years is nothing to sneeze at

        • Bananigans@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          If Thai people can throw tuna on waffles, I think you can have your pad Thai however you want.