{"id":57862,"date":"2023-08-28T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/27\/competition-seeks-true-taste-of-thailands-national-dish"},"modified":"2023-08-28T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:15:26","slug":"pad-kaphrao-contest-seeks-true-taste-of-thailands-national-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57862","title":{"rendered":"Pad kaphrao contest seeks true taste of Thailand\u2019s national dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism body tries to nail down best recipe for a dish popular at home but often overshadowed abroad <\/p>\n<p>Pad kaphrao has a strong claim to be Thailand\u2019s most loved dish. The meal \u2013 holy basil fried with minced meat \u2013 is a quick and easy staple. It is a regular among street vendors whose woks fill the air with a distinctive, fiery aroma, and on the menus of high-end restaurants and in the ready-made sections of convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p>But abroad it is overshadowed by the likes of pad thai and green curry \u2013 and when it does feature on menus, the ingredients tend to differ from those used in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/27\/competition-seeks-true-taste-of-thailands-national-dish\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism body tries to nail down best recipe for a dish popular at home but often overshadowed abroad Pad kaphrao has a strong claim to be Thailand\u2019s most loved dish. The meal \u2013 holy basil fried with minced meat \u2013 is a quick and easy staple. It is a reg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,1745,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-thai-food-and-drink","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57875,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57862\/revisions\/57875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}