Pad Thai in Midtown East, New York City
PAD THAI
Pad thai is Thailand’s best-known noodle dish, and it’s the most popular plate in the house. Thin rice noodles are stir-fried with egg, tofu, bean sprouts, and chives in our tamarind sauce, then finished with crushed peanuts and a wedge of lime.
The sauce is the heart of the dish: tamarind for sourness, palm sugar for sweetness, fish sauce for salt. Every plate is stir-fried fresh when you order it. A squeeze of lime at the table brightens the whole dish.
Choose chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, or tofu, or go all out with grilled king prawns on top. It comes mild by default, so tell your server if you want it spicy, and mention any allergies. Pad thai is one of the easier Thai dishes to adapt.
Good company for it: chicken satay or curry puffs to start, tom kha gai if you want a soup, and mango sticky rice to finish. If you are weighing the noodle dishes, pad see ew is the chewier soy-sauce cousin and drunken noodles are the spicy basil one.
We are on 2nd Ave at 34th Street in Murray Hill, about a five-minute walk from Grand Central. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Dine in, sit out on the patio, or order takeout on your way home.
See prices and photos on the menu page, reserve a table on Resy, or call (917) 464-5585. Open 7 days at 625 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10016.
