TAMPA, Fla. - CuisineWire -- The Thanksgiving table is getting more global. USA Today reported on Nov. 4 that Gen Z hosts are rewriting Thanksgiving with flavors from around the world, with gochujang, chili crisp, miso, and harissa showing up in glazes, butters, and dressings, and dumplings and spring rolls joining the appetizers. Campbell's 2026 State of the Sides Report tells the same story from the side dish side: Americans are planning the holiday dish by dish.

Foodie Pundit was built for dish-by-dish planning, and its Dish Intelligence reporting starts with a simple question: what does a dish actually cost? For Pad Thai, one of the most ordered Thai dishes in America, the answer across Foodie Pundit's verified graph is $14.39 on average.

That number does not come from a survey or a delivery app markup. It comes from menu evidence. Foodie Pundit's graph links 2,117,124 dishes to the 505,940 restaurants that serve them, and at 27,169 places the prices have been checked against the restaurant's own menu. Pad Thai prices pulled from those menus average $14.39, which gives a reader a grounded way to judge what a plate should cost in their own city, and gives restaurants a benchmark built from real menus rather than guesses.

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"People do not crave restaurants. They crave dishes, and more and more, those dishes come from everywhere," the Foodie Pundit editorial desk said. "When a reader asks what Pad Thai costs, they deserve an answer counted from menus, not an estimate."

The Pad Thai finding is the template for Foodie Pundit's ongoing price reporting. The same verified graph powers its dish search, its city coverage, its daily digest, and its video explainers, which turn dish pricing into short reported stories. As global flavors move further into American holiday cooking, a menu-verified price for the dishes people actually order becomes the reference point readers and restaurants can both use.

Readers can search for Pad Thai and thousands of other dishes at foodiepundit.com, see which restaurants near them serve it and what it costs there, and join the free daily digest for ongoing dish price reporting.