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...chefs at Nine Tastes could probably make Pad Thai in their sleep. Pad Thai is the most popular dish at both Spice and Nine Tastes—the sweet and sour noodle dish makes up about 40 to 50 percent of all orders. Manager Nancy Jitjaruek estimates that they dished out over 200 servings during Valentine’s Day weekend alone...
...secret to the restaurants' pad thai is that it consists of fresh ingredients cooked quickly and served immediately. To replicate the dish, heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil, crack in an egg and sauté for a few seconds before throwing in a handful of well-soaked rice noodles. After a minute more of stir-frying, add one tablespoon each of vinegar, sugar and fish sauce, a teaspoon of chopped turnip and a bit of water. A few scallions or green onions and a handful of bean sprouts go in last because they cook quickly. Jitjaruek dares the reader...
...secret is out, thanks to the growing popularity of restaurants where the customer is the chef. Long a staple of immigrant communities in big cities, restaurants where diners chop, grill, boil or dip their food are hot in the heartland. St. Paul, Minn., has Thai hot-pot cooking. Indianapolis, Ind., has Japanese shabu-shabu (another type of hot pot). A pizzeria in Las Vegas lets customers roll the dough. Do-it-yourself s'mores are big in Houston. A national fondue chain is booming...
...Shan have an uneasy relationship with their ethnic cousins, the Thais. (Siam, the old name for Thailand, is a corruption of "Shan.") Unlike other ethnic groups fleeing persecution in Burma, the Shan who cross into Thailand are not granted refugee status, and easily fall prey to disease and human traffickers. To appease Burma's generals?who would like nothing more than a rebel-free Shan state?Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered his army to expel the S.S.A. from the group's headquarters, which straddles the border. But that hasn't happened yet and, despite public pronouncements to the contrary...