Paint your next pad see ew and win 80K baht, Bangkok

What stains the wide, ropy rice noodles of pad see ew? Is it the exigencies of the pan, the fated vicissitudes of marination in the sauces of soy, oyster, and fish? Does the classic Thai dish whisper of post-truth ennui?

While answers to these questions may be unknowable, one objective truth is certain: Someone’s getting THB80,000 (US$2,300) two months from now for their painting of stir-fried noodles – and a show at Bangkok’s TARS Gallery.

“What makes a good pad see ew painting? It’s a good question,” gallery founder Pierre Bechon said this morning. “It could be the realism, or it can be the creativity around the reproduction of this dish. I think we’re not going to expect too much right now. We want to get out of the representational aspect. We want to be surprised. I know some people will compete with very different approaches to…