Pad Thai

Stir-fried rice noodles with tamarind paste, palm sugar, fish sauce, dried shrimp, garlic, egg, bean sprouts, spring onion, ground peanuts, and lime. Often with prawn, chicken, or tofu. The signature is the four-axis Thai balance: sweet (palm sugar), sour (tamarind, lime), salty (fish sauce), umami (dried shrimp), held in suspension over the chewy rice noodle.