Ah, apologies about the salt! It's been added, thank you!

Were the noodles crispy before you mixed them with the sauce? If so, the only thing that can cause this is is there was too much moisture either left in the sauce, or if you introduced other ingredients that contained moisture.

First attempt wasnt perfect with the noodles but the taste is great! I love ordering Crispy Pad Thai and wanted to figure out how it was made! Great Recipie!

Thanks so much for the report Mike! So glad to hear it was a success. And well done to you as this is not an easy recipe! Thank you for buying my book as well, I hope you will enjoy them!

Pai,
Thank you for replying to me. I know you're busy, but it means a lot. I just made your recipe to a T (except for Sriracha half-and-and with ketchup), and it's officially the bomb! (Oh, I didn't have pine nuts, but did use cashews.) My wife is on her third plate (I didn't mold it), and she keeps saying, "This is SO good!" Our 20yo niece loves it too, and even our little Shih Tzu is sitting here begging it from me.
I found the recipe on Youtube, under Mee Krob, don't know why I couldn't find it before. I see now that you used less lime zest than that of a whole lime, which is what I read that as. That's the only thing I'd change, though, this is just SO good!
You've been an inspiration to me and gotten me back into trying to perfect my Pad Thai, and it's pretty close right now. I made your "Leftover Fried Rice" the other day and it got great reviews. Oh, and your Massaman Curry Chicken (from a tub of paste I had. I bought Hot Thai Kitchen, and after I've learned from that I'll get Sabai. Thank you for making Thai cooking so accessible to us Westerners!

Hi Mike, thanks so much for this story! I'm glad I was able to help demystify noodle frying!! As a rule of thumb, I never trust recipes by Asian product companies. You'd think they'd have reliable recipes cuz after all it would reflect badly on their products, but in my experience it looks like they just put something there just to have it. They are rarely reliable and often wrong. Not like the Nestle Tollhouse Cookie recipe, lol! Thanks in advance for the cookbook purchase! And the video is still on YouTube but I may have named it differently...I think I spelled it Mee Grob.

Want to know what temperature they specified for frying the noodles? 180C, which is 356F, which I thought was way too low. (But it's been some years since I last fried rice noodles, so I went with it.) Well, you know what happened, because your picture above shows a trial at 350: hard and brown. Then I went to 370, 380, & 390 (I had 4 squares to fry), and my 390 batch was similar to your 400, but worse of course.

So I went back, heated the oil to a solid 450, and BAM, the noodles puffed up just like I remembered, and like the Lion Brand video showed. (By the way, I went to your Youtube channel and couldn't find Mee Krob. Is it still there and I just missed it?)

And I saw egg in your recipe and thought, "Huh." But I scrambled one and stirred it into my leftover sauce and WOW, what a difference that makes!

One last thing before I let you go: I eat Rice Krispie Treats straight from the pan at least once a week, and while I was stirring up my first batch in the wok I told my wife that it was like "savory Rice Krispie treats." My exact words, I swear. And then I saw you said that right in your first paragraph! I showed my wife and said, "Told ya!"

Anyway, I'm going to go order one of your books now!
Take care,
Mike in Atlanta

Thank you so much! I am so glad to hear this lived up to your memory of it. And that happened to me when I served it to people who never had anything like it before...they polished it off!

You rarely see Mee Krob on the menus in the U.S. My mother was a fan of it, so we when she found a restaurant that served it she introduced me to it. It was our staple to order every time we went to visit. Sadly, we moved away and 30 years later I've never found another Thai restaurant that serves it. The flavors took me right back and I will share it with her as soon as I can see her again.

I can't believe this doesn't have more reviews!

Yes that is the same one.