It's so simple, how do you make mediocre Pad Thai as a Thai place? No cheap Chinese takeout place survives without bomb Orange Chicken.
That's so sad. I've had bomb pad thai on the street in Thailand and they can't do it with a whole ass restaurant?
Is orange chicken the yank equivalent of honey chicken, or do you do that there too?
The first one in my experience, where's this honey chicken paradise?
In Australia honey chicken is the quintessential, bog standard "Chinese" dish. It's very nice.
Orange chicken is a heavily breaded fried chicken with a syrupy orange-flavored sauce.
The best Thai restaurant I've been to makes aggressively bland Pad Thai and genuinely awful Pad See Ew, but all the rice, stir fry and curry dishes are amazing.
The opposite but equal force of bad is when the pad thai tastes amazing, but you realize too soon that extra spicy was not extra spicy on a white people scale and suddenly you have to take teeny tiny sips of your iced tea to tame your taste buds into riding the heatwave to flavortown
I'm always cautious around spice from Asian places. No need to ruin a good dish. That being said, this last place didn't even give me the option to change the heat.
We don't even have orange chicken in the UK.
ymmv obviously but none of the takeaways I've ever used have it; the only place I've found it is a restaurant 10 miles away that doesn't do takeaway.Sweet and sour pork is still good tho, and I've been really getting into Chinese bbq sauce lately
