pad woon sen

noun

A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.

OriginThai ผัดวุ้นเส้น →
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Meanings

noun
  1. A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.

    Broccoli with Oyster Sauce and Pad Woon Sen—cellophane noodles with beef—illustrated the intermarriage that exists between Chinese and Thai cuisines; both were delicious and devoid of spiciness.

    1982, Serema Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Expectional Round-the-World Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1st edition, Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 85
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    Sometimes I imagine there is an entire subpopulation of people who live out their lives in nine hundred square feet of space [in their apartments]. The TV plays, the pad woon sen is delivered and consumed, the sun comes up and goes down.

    2013, Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings, first paperback edition, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 10

Origin

  1. Thaiผัดวุ้นเส้น
  2. Englishpad woon sen

Borrowed from Thai ผัดวุ้นเส้น, a compound of ผัด (pàt, “stir fry”) and วุ้นเส้น (wún-sên, “glass noodles”).

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Chicago

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