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pad woon sen

pad woon sen noun: a stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.

pad woon sen: a stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot
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Noun

pad woon sen

  1. A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.
    • Broccoli with Oyster Sauce and Pad Woon Sen—cellophane noodles with beef—illustrated the intermarriage that exists between Chinese and Thai cuisines; both were delicious and devoid of spiciness.1982, Serema Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Expectional Round-the-World Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1st edition, Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 85
    • Sometimes I imagine there is an entire subpopulation of people who live out their lives in nine hundred square feet of space [in their apartments]. The TV plays, the pad woon sen is delivered and consumed, the sun comes up and goes down.2013, Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings, first paperback edition, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 10

Origin of pad woon sen

Borrowed from Thai ผัดวุ้นเส้น, a compound of ผัด (pàt, “stir fry”) and วุ้นเส้น (wún-sên, “glass noodles”).

Questions about pad woon sen

What does pad woon sen mean?
Pad woon sen means a stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.
What part of speech is pad woon sen?
Pad woon sen is a noun.

Words near pad woon sen in the dictionary

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  4. pad the hoof
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  8. pad-tree
  9. pad-trees
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