The Secret Is In The Sauce To Make Classic Pad See Ew - Tasting Table

If you've ever enjoyed a great version of Classic Pad See Ew — either in a restaurant or in your own kitchen — then you know that the dish's appeal lies in its sweet-salty sauce. Typically composed of a mix of soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice wine vinegar, and fish sauce, the secret to the sauce stirred up by recipe developer Ting Dalton is a double dose of soy sauces, in the form of both light and dark soy sauces.

According to Serious Eats, dark soy sauce — even if it isn't labeled as such — is the type of soy sauce most commonly sold. So what's light soy sauce? The outlet explains that this type of soy is lighter and thinner, but has a stronger, saltier flavor than dark soy, which can be the natural result of the brewing process, or due to additives such as rice wine, and corn syrup, or vinegar.

As Dalton tells us, the two types of soy sauce combined bring a depth of flavor to her classic pad see ew that truly makes the dish shine. "Pad see ew takes its main flavor from soy — so it is pretty important to have the two," she said. Referring to light soy sauce, she noted, "it's easily found in most grocery stores or Asian supermarkets."