My wife likes Pad Thai. We really like the stuff from certain restaurants. We used to do the Street Kitchen kit, but it's different from the restaurants. It's a much more fish-saucy flavored one. We like it okay, but we like the restaurant version more.
This past weekend I went to an Asian market and got ingredients and got to work trying to make the sauce. The first one was fish sauce, oyster sauce, tamarind paste, brown sugar and rice vinegar. This one came out tasting almost exactly like the Street Kitchen version, so not what I was aiming for. I tried adding some Sriracha in a second version, but that definitely wasn't the flavor I was looking for (not bad, just not what I was aiming for).
In doing more research, I've come across mention that some restaurants (I'm assuming in America, but not in Thailand) add a good bit of ketchup to their sauce. Is this the secret ingredient I'm missing? I don't normally use ketchup (I use ketchup on meatloaf and that's it, and I haven't made meatloaf in years), so I don't want to buy it if it's not going to get me what I'm looking for.
I've also heard of pulverizing dried shrimp and adding that to the sauce. Not sure if that's my secret ingredient? Just looking for the restaurant secret.
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