PAD MACARONI. I grew up on this stuff, and still love it today. The version I grew up on used a type of pasta I have never seen here. We call it “macaroni” but imagine if the elbow macaroni were as long as spaghetti. It’s basically shaped like a drinking straw. If you’re thinking bucatini, it’s not, cuz the hole is wayyy bigger.
Is that a pasta shape that exists in Italy?? Or is it a Thai thing? Someone please let me know.
“Pad” means to stir fry, and I once made this dish for a friend’s American parents and I told them I’m making a “stir fry.” But when they saw it they looked surprised and said, “Oh you said a stir fry, but it’s more like a pasta dish!” And at that moment I realized that according to them, a stir fry and a pasta dish are mutually exclusive!