Noodles · Thailand

How Many Calories in Pad See Ew?

Also known as ผัดซีอิ๊ว, Phat Si-io, Pad Siew, Kuay Teow Pad See Ew, Thai Soy Sauce Noodles.

Wide fresh rice noodles stir fried on high heat with dark soy sauce, egg, Chinese kale and pork or chicken until the edges char. The savoury, smoky one on the noodle cart, next to pad thai.

679kcal / 1 plate
A plate of pad see ew moo sai kai is 679 calories for 350g, per the Thai Department of Health. That makes it the heaviest common noodle plate in Thailand, above pad thai (577) and well above rad na (397). The wide noodles are 300 calories on their own and they absorb about 1.5 tablespoons of oil.

Nutrition facts

Per 1 plate (350g)AmountPer 100g
Calories679 kcal194 kcal
Protein24 g7 g
Carbs82 g23 g
Fat28 g8 g

Where the calories come from

Wide rice noodles (sen yai)200g
300 kcal
Pork60g
110 kcal
Egg50g
75 kcal
Cooking oil20g
180 kcal
Chinese kale40g
10 kcal
Dark soy, oyster sauce, sugar20g
20 kcal

The real talk

Sen yai (wide fresh rice noodles) are the reason. They come pre oiled so they do not stick, and then they hit a wok with another ladle of oil, and their flat surface soaks it up. 200g of wide noodles is about 300 calories before cooking and closer to 420 after. That is the whole difference between pad see ew at 679 and rad na at 397, which uses the same noodles but in a starch gravy instead of fried.

The dark soy sauce is sweet soy, so there is sugar in there too, about 8 to 10g per plate. Together with the egg and pork it is a fatty, sweet, salty plate, which is exactly why it tastes so good at 11pm. The Chinese kale is the only free ingredient and there is usually only 40g of it.

It is not a bad plate of food, it is a big one. 24g of protein and 82g of carbs is a proper meal and then some. The way to eat pad see ew is as the meal, on its own, with nothing else. As a shared side dish next to a fried rice and a curry, which is how it turns up on a lot of tables, it is 680 calories that nobody is counting.

How the portions compare

520 kcal
Small plate
679 kcal
Standard plate with pork and egg
850 kcal
Large piset plate

How to eat it lighter

Common questions

Is pad see ew healthier than pad thai?
No. Pad see ew is 679 calories versus 577 for pad thai, per the Thai Department of Health. It has slightly more protein but about 6g more fat and more sugar from the sweet dark soy.
How many calories in pad see ew with chicken?
About 630 for a standard plate. Chicken is a little leaner than pork, so you save around 50 calories.
Why is pad see ew so high in calories?
Wide rice noodles absorb a lot of oil when stir fried, roughly 1.5 tablespoons per plate, which is 180 calories on top of 300 calories of noodles.

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Calorie and macro figures are estimates for a typical street stall or food court serving. Actual numbers vary by stall, recipe and portion size. Use them as a guide, not gospel.

Calorie figure based on Thai Department of Health (กรมอนามัย) via health.kapook.com: kuay teow pad see ew moo sai kai 350g = 679 kcal. Macros estimated from the ingredients.

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