Pad Thai (Thai fried noodles)

Pad Thai (Thai fried noodles)
- can be considered as the soul of Thai cuisine. Pad Thai is simple to make but the combination of ingredients and spices makes it deliciously attractive.
Ingredients
  • 2-3 shallots
  • 1piece tofu(hard type)
  • 40Gr garlic chives
  • 100Gr bean sprouts
  • 3 chicken eggs
  • 300Gr rice noodles
  • 1bowl water
  • 1tbsp tomato paste
  • 200gr shrimps
  • 1tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1tbsp sugar
  • 2tbsp soy sauce
  • 1/4 lemon
  • some roasted peanuts
  • some paprika
Instructions
  1. Shred shallots. Cut the tofu into thin pieces, 0.2cm long. Cut garlic chives into pieces with the size of your little finger.
  2. Put 1 tbsp of cooking oil in a hot pan, and stir fry onions. Smash the eggs into the pan. Stir the eggs until eggs are cooked. Take the eggs out and set aside.
  3. Put 1 tbsp of cooking oil in the pan. Add rice noodles. Pour in water and cook until the noodles are soft. Note: If you can not buy semi-dried noodles but use dried type, you must soak noodles in warm water to soften first and then put into the pan to stir fry.
  4. Add chili sauce and ketchup to noodles, stir well. When chili sauce and ketchup are mixed together with the noodles, put the noodles on a plate, set aside.
  5. Put 1 tbsp of cooking oil in the pan. In turn, add tofu, shrimps, oyster sauce, stir well. Pour the previously fried noodles and bean sprouts, garlic chives into the pan and stir. Season with sugar, soy sauce. Stir well and the Pad Thai dish is done.
  6. Put Pad Thai on a plate. Add some sprouts and a piece of lemon in the corner of the plate. Sprinkle some crushed peanuts on top. Add a little lemon juice, mix well when eating.