Hi,
i searched the forum but only found older topics about pad thai. i love thai food and am looking for good, cheap pad thai. I will pay more for good pad thai but am on an exchange student budget so do not have a lot.
anyway please direct me to good, relatively inexpensive pad thai in Taipei. preferably close to an MRT point so I can find it easily.
Thanks
Pretty sure I remember seeing it on the menu of the Blue Spice stall. Didnāt try it, but would expect it to be better than the āThai-style noodlesā youād find at most of the other Thai eateries.
Check out the āBlue Elephantā thread for locations.
[quote=āTyphunā]Pretty sure I remember seeing it on the menu of the Blue Spice stall. Didnāt try it, but would expect it to be better than the āThai-style noodlesā youād find at most of the other Thai eateries.
Check out the āBlue Elephantā thread for locations.[/quote]
NT$150ā¦bit steepish but its a main so you get side dishes and a drink.
a-huiās west side of shipai station rocks. i think 80 or 100 with chicken
Youāve pitched this place a couple of times, havenāt you? Iāve got to try this out - itās the sign with white writing on blue, correct? Iāve seen that restaurant for years and never tried, which is borderline criminal, especially since I live in Danshui and Shipaiās moderately convenient for me.
Thereās anotherā¦ erā¦ Yunnanish/ Thai place on the other (east) side of Shipai station, sort of where you wait to catch the buses into Tianmu. Dirt cheap and recognizable as not-quite-Taiwanese, but not particularly good. The sign probably has some combination of é²å and ę³° in it (the first meaning Yunnan, the second meaning Thai, as well as a lot of other things).
What dishes do you recommend there? Besides the pad thai, of course. And what is pad thai in Chinese, anyway? ę³°å¼ę²³ē², or something like that?
I have. I live nearby and know it well. Itās had itās ups and downs over the years, but theyāve had a good cook in there last 6 months or so. iāve been going in quite a bit. the som tam, pad thai and tom yam gung are a couple of favorites but i havenāt ordered anything i didnāt like. i think the menu says ę³°å¼ēéŗµ. they have an english menu.
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Thereās anotherā¦ erā¦ Yunnanish/ Thai place on the other (east) side of Shipai station, sort of where you wait to catch the buses into Tianmu. Dirt cheap and recognizable as not-quite-Taiwanese, but not particularly good. The sign probably has some combination of é²å and ę³° in it (the first meaning Yunnan, the second meaning Thai, as well as a lot of other things).[/quote]
Iāve had some decent meals there and some not so decent. these last few months i havenāt been in though.
Made this today, worked great, easy. I got Viet rice noodles in the Philippine stores on Zhongshan Sec. 3, had to give them a dunk in boiling water to soften them up, but came out fine
Yumā¦what protein did you use?
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Shrimps, peanuts, bean sprouts, one would assume.
I prefer the moo, but that works too. 
Iām more of a gai guy
Wild and crazy gaiā¦
I would, but the young one is averse.
Just want to say there is a pretty deece cheap thai joint in Hsinchu if you cross the pedestrian bridge over the railway near the train station then take a left then a right on that main road that goes up past the universities, but you donāt have to go far itās on the right on the first block. They have one of those drink dispensers but itās some sort of blue drink that tastes like water no idea what it is. That was my regular water route which after a year of drinking realised youāre meant to boil before drinking. Oh yeah and I broke my arm there trying to ride back on my bicycle with two full containers of water hanging of the handle (the handle on one of the bottles broke but I managed to grab it before it fell on the rode however that resulted in me riding one handed, and when it came to stop, on a decline, it turns out breaking with one hand on a bicycle doesnāt work very well. After an hour of pain I decided I had to go to the hospital. It was after midnight so they sent me to the dungeon to get an x-ray and the x-ray-ologist took like 10 x-rays twisting my arms in all sorts of unnatural positions, me experiencing possibly the worst pain Iāve felt in my life, while saying "sorry sorry sorry)
Probably this:
