pad woon sen

English

Etymology

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

Noun

pad woon sen

  1. A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.
    • 1982, Serema Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Expectional Round-the-World Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area‎[1], 1st edition, Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 85:
      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.
    • 2013, Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings‎[2], first paperback edition, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 10:
      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.
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