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🍜 Sen Yai (thick rice noodles)

Ingredients: Rice Flour

Features: wide noodles, soft taste

Common recipes: Drunken Noodles, Pad See Ew, Pad Thai

🍜 Sen Lek (fine rice noodles)

Ingredients: Rice Flour

Features: thin flat strips

Recipes: Pad Thai, Boat Noodle Soup, Tom Yum, Pho

🍜 Guay Tiew (Wide Kway Teow)

Ingredients: Rice Flour

Features: Wide, soft noodles

Recipe: Pad See Ew, Rad Na, Guay Tiew Pad, Noodle Soup

🍜 Ba Mee (Egg Noodles)

Ingredients: wheat flour, eggs

Features: yellow noodles, slightly chewy

Taste: light egg flavor

Recipes: Northern Thai Curry Noodles (Kao Soi), Ba Mee Haeng, Fried Noodles

🍜 Ba Mee Yok or Jade Noodles (Emerald Noodles)

Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Eggs, Green Food Coloring

Feature: green noodles

Taste: light egg flavor

Recipe: various noodle soups, hot pot dishes

🍜 Woon Sen (Fan)

Ingredients: Bean, Mung Bean or Sweet Potato Starch

Features: transparent noodles

Taste: chewy

Recipes: Pad Woon Sen Salad, Pad Woon Sen Noodle Stir Fry, Noodle Soup, Stir Fry

🍜 Sen Mee (fine rice noodles)

Ingredients: Rice Flour

Features: very fine rice noodles, similar to angel noodles

Recipes: Fried Noodles (Pad Mee), Crispy Noodles (Mee Krob), Soup Noodles, Fried Noodles

🍜 Kanom Jeen (fermented rice noodles)

Ingredients: Fermented Rice

Features: small and round noodles

Taste: Lightly fermented

Recipes: Kanom Jeen Namya, Spring Rolls, Soup Noodles, Fried Noodles

🍜 Sen Guay-Chap

Ingredients: Rice Flour

Features: Thin opaque triangular or square faces

Recipe: Yen Ta Fo noodle soup, Guay Chap Naam Sai

🍜 Thai instant ramen (MAMA instant noodles)

Ingredients: Wheat Flour

Features: The cheapest one available in various supermarkets

Recipe: Pad Thai in noodle soups, chow mein and street food