Cooking Thailand's most famous noodle dish, Pad thai in a small eatery in Kanchanaburi district. Phad thai consists of thin noodles lightly stir-fried with bean sprouts, sweet ground peanuts, and shrimp and is traditionally flash fried in a wok.

Inventing Pad Thai

A government campaign transformed a Chinese-inspired noodle dish into a symbol of Thailand's national identity.
Miss Songkran Surin contest in 1953

She’s the Very Model of a Modern Militant Woman

A gun-toting killer seems like an unlikely heroine for a nationalist classic novel, but that’s the story of Luang Wichit Wathakan’s Huang rak haew luk.