Pad See Ew (Wide Rice Noodles with Egg)
Pad see ew (ผัดซีอิ๊ว — stir-fried with soy sauce) is Chinese-influenced Thai cookery — the dark soy sauce, the wide rice noodles, and the Chinese broccoli are Chinese elements applied in the Thai wok context. It is one of the primary dishes of Thai-Chinese street food cookery.
Wide fresh rice noodles (sen yai) stir-fried at extreme heat with egg, Chinese broccoli (gai lan), dark soy, and oyster sauce — the noodles charring slightly on the wok surface to develop a smoky, caramelised flavour that is the entire point of the preparation. Pad see ew is simpler in its seasoning than pad Thai but more technically demanding in its requirement for wok hei — the slightly charred, smoky character that the flat rice noodle achieves when it makes direct, hot contact with the wok surface.