Phad Thai, a Small Taste of a Large Cultural Heritage Whenever Americans think of oriental cuisine it seems they automatically visualize Chinese food, but the Orient has many other cultures each with their own distinctive styles of cooking. Of course it is only natural for people to automatically equate Chinese food as synonymous with oriental cuisine since it has been the dominant type of oriental cooking readily available to Americans ever since the first Chinese …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…able to shed the ignorant belief that Chinese food is the only cuisine the Orient has to offer. There is much more to the Orient than just China. Phad Thai is a prime example of the cultural diversity of the Far East. This traditional Thai dish, not only is extremely tasty, but also can give us a small sampling of the unique cuisine that is a cross section of Thailand’s resilient and distinctive culture.