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Many of the ingredients are provided on the side as condiments, such as the red chili pepper, lime wedges, roasted peanuts, bean sprouts, spring onion and other miscellaneous fresh vegetables. Though stir-fried rice noodles were introduced to Thailand from China centuries ago, the dish pad thai was invented in the mid-20th century. Author Mark Padoongpatt maintains that pad thai is “not this traditional, authentic, going back hundreds of years dish. It was actually created in the 1930s in Thailand. The dish was created because Thailand was focused on nation-building. Another explanation of pad thai’s provenance holds that, during World War II, Thailand suffered a rice shortage due to the war and floods.

To reduce domestic rice consumption, the Thai government under Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram promoted consumption of noodles instead. Thai-American food writer Kasma Loha-unchit disputes the claim of a native Thai origin and suggests that pad thai was actually invented by the Chinese immigrants themselves, because “for a dish to be so named in its own country clearly suggests an origin that isn’t Thai”. At least as early as 2001, the Thai government used pad thai as a form of “soft power,” creating “the Global Thai Restaurant Company, Ltd. Pad thai is listed at number five on a list of “World’s 50 most delicious foods” readers’ poll compiled by CNN Go in 2011. The Oddly Autocratic Roots of Pad Thai”. 7-Steps to Properly Eating Pad Thai”. Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America.

Why there are so many Thai restaurants in Seattle”. All wrapped up and ready to go”. The Non-Thai Origins of Pad Thai”. The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America”. Your pick: World’s 50 most delicious foods”. 001 Tacos de carnitas, carne asada y al pastor. Mexican food consisting of a small hand-sized corn- or wheat-based tortilla topped with a filling.

The tortilla is then folded around the filling and eaten by hand. The origins of the taco are not precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. According to one etymological theory, the culinary origin of the term “taco” in Mexico can be traced to its employment, among Mexican silver miners, as a term signifying “plug. The miners used explosive charges in plug form, consisting of a paper wrapper and gunpowder filling. One possibility is that the word derives from the Nahuatl word “tlahco”, meaning “half” or “in the middle,” in the sense that food would be placed in the middle of a tortilla.