Pairings | Pad thai

What wine would you drink with Pad Thai?

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on June 4 2020 at 06:52

What’s the best wine for pad thai? Well, it’s a dish you might well not think of pairing with wine at all but according to a report on the blog Musings from Thailand, an adviser to the Thai government has suggested a campaign to link French wine and Pad Thai as a way to promote Thai food overseas.

I'm not sure they're thinking along the right lines though. The picture on the post is of a red wine - possible of course - but I would definitely prefer a white.

For those of you who are not familiar with pad Thai it's a traditional street dish of noodles which generally includes sugar, tamarind, dried shrimp and fish sauce and is served with chilli and lime.

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