Essential Ingredients pad thai
Chinese kale or broccoli(phak khana)
A very nutritious green leafy plant with smooth round crubchy stems, features prominently in fried noodles like phat si-io and rat na. There are two major varieties of Chinese kale the leaf variety and the stem variety. The former has many big leaves and short stems. The latter has long stem and fewer small leaves. It is less fibrous and hence softer and sweeter than the leaf variety.Chinese kale or broccoli(phak khana) |
The large leafy variety has a crunchy stem with tough outer skins which need to be peeled off. Sometimes the stem variety is referred to as khana hong, or literally Hong Kong kale.
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