Classic Pad Thai

This was ok - quick, fairly easy.  But flavor-wise it was just ok.  Not sure what was missing but the sauce just didn't taste right to me.  Doubtful I'll make it again - so many better recipes out there.

Recommend you make the dish more Americanized by leaving out the fish sauce and shrimp, unless you really like seafood-flavored meat, adding a touch of brown sugar to taste, and adding many more Chinese-American style vegetables such as chopped fresh stir fried broccoli, shredded carrots, Chinese Cabbage, white onions, etc.

this was totally flavorless and terrible. i wasn't expecting authentic pad thai but this tasted like nothing. seriously, nothing. skip this one.

So I was reading along with the recipe as I cooked instead of reading it first and then starting so I added the soy fish sauce mix into the eggs but that ended up being a good thing. I added a full tablespoon of soy sauce and fish sauce (could have even done 1 1/2 of the soy) tossed in some of the peanuts and let everyone add as much sweet vinegar as they wanted. I also didn't use the banana peppers and dried shrimp.

This didn't take classic to me or authentic...it didn't taste bad just didn't taste like I was expecting Classic --or to me authentic...a watered down version of the real thing...very pedestrian...