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From-scratch green curry paste makes all the difference. Worth the food processor. Creamy, fresh, herbal, with just enough heat.

Street-style pad thai with tofu instead of shrimp, and coconut aminos standing in for fish sauce. Tastes like the real thing, I promise.

Add salmon fillets in the last 8 minutes of simmering. Fish sauce restores the depth that soy sauce can't quite replicate.

Big flat wide rice noodles, Chinese broccoli, oyster sauce and dark soy. The wetter, sweeter, more charred cousin of pad thai.

Same from-scratch paste, chicken thighs instead of tofu. Fish sauce instead of soy. The most ordered Thai dish in the UK for a reason.

Replace tofu with shrimp, coconut aminos with fish sauce. Classic. The vegan version is good; this version is the one people order at restaurants.