£9.35
Pad Prik Gaeng is a spicy Thai curry, stir-fried with red curry paste. It’s like a dry curry with the paste coating the meat or tofu.
Allergy Info: Contains oyster sauce and fish sauce.
⚠ When ordering tofu, we change oyster sauce to mushroom sauce. We can also replace fish sauce with salt on request.
Please tell us about any allergies or dietary requirements before ordering.
Pad Prik Gaeng is a spicy Thai curry, stir-fried with red curry paste. It’s like a dry curry with the paste coating the meat or tofu.
Allergy Info: Contains oyster sauce and fish sauce.
⚠ When ordering tofu, we change oyster sauce to mushroom sauce. We can also replace fish sauce with salt on request.
Please tell us about any allergies or dietary requirements before ordering.
Thai Name: Pad Prik Gaeng (ผัดพริกแกง)
Origins: Pad Prik Gaeng occupies a fascinating and unique position in Thai cuisine — sitting precisely at the crossroads between a stir fry and a curry, belonging fully to neither category and being more interesting for it. The name translates as “stir fried curry paste” and that is exactly what it is — red curry paste used not as the base of a coconut milk sauce but as the direct coating for the protein itself, seared at high heat in the wok until it clings to every piece of meat or tofu in a fierce, aromatic crust that delivers the full intensity of the paste without any dilution. Found across Thailand wherever cooks want the bold character of a curry without the time or the coconut milk required to build a full sauce, Pad Prik Gaeng is the dish that reveals what Thai curry paste is truly capable of when it is given nothing to hide behind — just heat, protein and the skill of the cook.
Our Version: Sireeya sources her red curry paste directly from Koh Lanta in Southern Thailand — the same trusted source as her Massaman, Red, Green, Panang and Khua Kling pastes — bringing the genuine depth and complexity of authentic southern Thai curry making to a dish that depends on the quality of that paste more than almost any other on the menu. With no coconut milk to carry or soften the flavour, the Koh Lanta paste is the dish — and at Sireeya’s Taste of Thailand, that paste is as good as it gets outside of Thailand itself. Stir-fried to order at fierce wok heat until the paste coats every piece of protein in a rich, aromatic crust of southern Thai spicing, Pad Prik Gaeng is served hot and immediate — a dish that rewards those who seek it out with one of the most honest and intense expressions of Thai curry flavour on the entire menu.
What You Get: A freshly wok-fried portion of Pad Prik Gaeng with authentic Koh Lanta red curry paste coating your choice of protein or tofu. Fiercely spiced, deeply aromatic and completely authentic.
Pad Prik Gaeng is fierce, aromatic and deeply intense — here’s what our customers love ordering alongside it to balance, contrast and complete the experience.
🍚 Coconut Rice
The single most effective pairing for Pad Prik Gaeng and the one that makes the most culinary sense. Where the dish itself contains no coconut milk, Coconut Rice restores that gentle sweetness and creaminess to the meal — the soft, fragrant rice simmered in coconut milk providing exactly the cooling, balancing base that the fierce dry curry paste coating needs alongside it. Every mouthful of intense, spiced protein followed by a gentle forkful of coconut rice resets the palate perfectly and allows the full complexity of the Koh Lanta paste to be appreciated rather than overwhelmed. An instinctive pairing that works every single time.
🍃 Goong Pad Sataw
For those who want the full force of southern Thai cuisine in a single meal, Goong Pad Sataw is the most regionally authentic companion to Pad Prik Gaeng on the entire menu. Succulent prawns stir-fried with aromatic sataw beans, onions and rich Thai curry paste — Goong Pad Sataw shares the same fierce southern Thai flavour heritage and the same Koh Lanta curry paste provenance as Pad Prik Gaeng, and together the two dishes build a meal that is completely and unapologetically rooted in the culinary tradition of the Thai south. A combination for customers who want to understand what southern Thai cooking truly tastes like — bold, uncompromising and utterly distinctive.
🥗 Som Tam Thai
The sharpest and most exciting contrast pairing for Pad Prik Gaeng on the menu. Som Tam Thai’s vibrant green papaya salad with fresh chilli, lime, roasted peanuts and cherry tomatoes delivers a bright, tangy, cooling freshness that cuts directly through the fierce dry heat of the curry paste stir fry — refreshing the palate completely between every mouthful and making the Pad Prik Gaeng taste even more intense and rewarding by contrast. In Southern and Northeastern Thailand, pairing a fiercely spiced main with a sharp, acidic salad is one of the fundamental principles of Thai meal composition and this pairing embodies that principle perfectly.
🦐 Thai Shrimp Cakes
Three handmade golden Thai Shrimp Cakes — crispy outside, tender inside, made with finely minced fresh prawns — are a beautifully considered starter before the intensity of Pad Prik Gaeng. The delicate natural sweetness of the prawn cakes with their tangy plum or sweet chilli dipping sauce opens the meal on a lighter, more delicate note that makes the fierce curry paste stir fry feel even more dramatic and satisfying when it arrives. A pairing that works through the art of contrast — from gentle to fierce, from delicate to bold, from the subtlest flavour on the menu to one of the most intense.
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We chose spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce to start. Then beef in oyster sauce with fried rice which was cooked to our liking, very generous portions We will definitely be ordering again.
My partner has travelled to Thailand and she never stops harping on how lovely the food is over there, she has not since returning found the same taste and quality until now we will definitely be regulars
First time ordering from here after a friend recommended it and wow, I was impressed. The food tasted amazing — you can really taste the herbs and spices, the Thai spicy option is spot on. Delivery was great too, the driver was friendly and chatty and explained everything. Really good service. Will definitely order again!
The best Thai food we have had, great spicing and fresh flavours. Good portions and pricing for an outstanding meal delivered to your home. Will be ordering again.
From order to delivery excellent and the food itself is so fresh with amazing flavours highly recommended
Always pleased with my food order. Dish are all freshly cooked, the ingredients is very authentic like you are really in Thailand, thank you so much! You are amazing!
I can not rave about this food enough, i have recommended it to so many friends and family who have loved it. My go to it masaman curry and pad kra pao, the wife absolutely loves the papaya salad, she even made us waterfall pork which wasn’t on the menu 10/10
Spring roll with sweet chilli dip was delicious. Green Thai curry freshly cooked and a very generous portion. Will definitely be ordering again.
I definitely recommend it ,every meal tastes amazing, love it xxx
A real taste of authentic Thai food! If you want it like your in Thailand than these guys are your new heroes! Rob is full of life and always brings your food hot and fresh and Sireeya is a fabulous cook! Thank you guys for bringing Thailand to our door. 🇹🇭🖤
