That noodle shops (ran kuaitiao), rice & curry shops (ran khao kaeng), and food-to-order shops (ran ahan tam sang) dominate the lively street food scenes in Thailand, serves as evidence to the importance of noodle and rice dishes in the Thai culinary repertoire. Yet not only in the eat-out street food menu, noodle and rice dishes are also frequently served in home cooking, especially as quick and easy meals are increasingly important in modern Thai nuclear families where domestic helpers, especially in home-cooking, are more and more difficult, even impossible, to find. No matter where you are in the present, rapidly changing world, serving a full meal at home become an exception rather than the rule. Single-plate dishes including noodle, pasta, and rice become more and more an essential part of home cooking throughout the world.