Years ago I set out to make Pad Thai at home.  I couldn’t get it and my kids said it wasn’t quite right.  So I asked my housekeeper, who was from Thailand, to help.  We made the dish together and she said she knew what was wrong.  She told me it needed ketchup!  I was flabbergasted!   She explained to me that ketchup was a condiment in China used for thousands of years!  She was right and here is the results!