Thai Khao Pad: The Best Fried Rice

Fried rice.

It's easy to make and eat, and it's easy to buy outside. In the past, fried rice options were limited to Chinese restaurant fried rice or kimchi fried rice.

Nowadays, fried rice, made as a finale to numerous soup and stir-fry dishes, is the trend. It's also considered a Korean dessert.

There seems to be a wide variety of fried rice. Anyway, among the various fried rices, my favorite is Thai fried rice; Khao Pad.

Eating Khao Pad with Prik Nam Pla. Ah, I'm in Thailand! That's the feeling I get.

My daughter also loves Thai fried rice. She doesn't usually eat much, and her portions are small, so I often wish she would eat more.

Just one thing.

When I make her Thai fried rice, she eats it really well. Usually, she only eats two or three spoonfuls of rice, but with Thai fried rice, she eats a considerable amount and cleans her plate.

I made Thai fried rice the other day.

Since we were eating as a family of three, I fried up at least 3 bowls of rice to make the fried rice and said we'd put it all in a big bowl and then serve ourselves. But...

I ate a little, my wife ate a little, but my daughter cleaned the whole plate of fried rice.

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She's been hooked on Thai fried rice ever since our family trip to Thailand when she was little, and she still loves it.

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I wonder if we'll be able to eat it there this winter.