It is eaten all over the world in gin joints and shebeens, on street corners, in the cold drizzle of London and the bright dusty streets of Santiago de Chile. Traditionally it is a dish that the people of Bangkok serve to foreigners and not really traditionally eaten in Thailand. Therefore, there is probably no more worldly food than this. When my family lived on Okinawa my father learned to make it from an old Japanese lady. During my wife's and my travels we tasted it in various countries to see what local flavor was imparted by the citizenry. From my fathers original recipe we created a distilled version of what many different cultures call Pad Thai.
I humor myself that what we came up with is, at the very least... decent. I would love to show you how to make this dish if you are so inclined. It's not ethnically indigenous to anywhere and that's what I love about it :)