Does anyone know how to make really great pad thai?

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Yes! I spend one summer cooking it over and over until I had the perfect recipe. Here's the the recipe for the secret sauce (Feel free to multiply): 6 Tbs rice vinegar, 6 Tbs sugar, 4 Tbs Fish sauce, 2 Tbs lime juice, 2 Tbs ketchup, 1-2 Tbs garlic chili sauce, 1 egg. You can tweak the quantities to get the flavor you want, but that's my secret sauce. Just don't tell anyone about the ketchup. Besides that, cook up some wide rice noodles, add sauteed chicken or tofu (peanut oil tastes best). When the noodles are almost ready, add in tofu, and sauce. Garnish with chopped peanuts, cilantro, carrots, sprouts.

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