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Have you ever wondered why are there so many Thai restaurants and why so many of them have the same dishes on the menus? Thai restaurants and Thai food were made popular in America through a government campaign of gastrodiplomacy, but here's why Pad Thai isn't really a Thai dish and actual Thai people are frustrated.

You’ve seen those black-and-white certificates at businesses around town. They declare the best, the premier, the supreme — according to readers like you. And now, it’s here: the moment you’ve been waiting for. After a record-setting 16,332 votes in 277 categories, the people have once more decla

Part fusion dish, part government propaganda, pad thai has a complicated background.

By Jeff Pitts 2/3/2021 You know the drill by now. For nearly three decades, CITYVIEW’s Best Of Des Moines Poll has informed central Iowa about its biggest, best, brightest, tastiest, most fabulous, most effective, most fun, most entertaining, most interesting, its fittest and… You get the idea. Being the best at something doesn’t just happen. Rising to the top of the heap is hard work, but once it’s done, you might as well cash in. Being recognized as the Best Of Des Moines has...

All of the victims were teenagers and Des Moines Public Schools students.

By Sue Danielson Jan 11, 2021 CLIVE, Iowa -- Three people are dead and two injured after a high speed chase that ended when the car vaulted off a bridge over Walnut Creek in Clive. Police say Urbandale Police were contacted before 2 a.m. from the 37-hundred block of Patricia Drive. The caller several males had stolen her car. Police in Urbandale and Clive tried to pull over the vehicle on Douglas Avenue at 86th Street, but the driver fled at speeds topping 100 miles per hour, south on 86th...