Lily Pad Thai
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On my 30th birthday last month, I was given a copy of the Stardew Valley cookbook: containing upwards at 50 recipes from the game itself, and I have been making plans to try the recipes in it.
This is my crack at Mango Sticky Rice. I posted this on the Stardew Valley Forum, but I thought it was worth a special mention on this wiki too since this recipe specifically calls for...
Thai sweet rice!
19 Votes in Poll
21 Votes in Poll
I'll start,
Children of the spore (which is overshadowed by the thing it is paired with, Anne of the Year)
Combat Camp
The Domino Effect (PEOPLE ONLY CARE ABOUT DOMINO 2 AND NOT THE EPISODE)
A Caravan Named Desire
Hollywood Hop Pop
Honorable Mentions I Guess:
Lily Pad Thai (I would mention it but people tell other people their opinions, stares at @EbbieBee)
Taking Charge and Toad Tax (same as the last one, stares at @Fbugodlikeatdboyy)
The Shut-in! (I feel like it doesn't count)
Quarreler's Pass (I feel like people talk about it a lot)
Link-> https://www.reddit.com/r/amphibia/comments/s2pj8o/lily_pad_thai_new_wartwood/
Credit to Gravityfying for the meme
Lily Pad Thai is so interesting to rewatch after season 2. After spending most of her time with the Plantars and establishing their dynamic, this is the first time Anne spends most of the segment interacting with someone other than the family. About 2 minutes into the segment Anne partners up Stumpy until the very end. The montage is used to show Anne’s hard work paying off as she cleans up the restaurant, gradually winning him over as his mood towards Anne shifts from apathetic, to amused, and finally cooperative. So with Stumpy on board the complete makeover becomes a collaborative project that makes Lily Pad Thai’s opening a shared victory instead of a surprise gift. So when Duckweed still threatens to shut down the restaurant the stakes of the segment become more personal to Stumpy and the audience.
It feels like New Wartwood done right. Marcy was doing a decent job of improving the town by working on stuff that the town actually needed, and it was Anne's guidance keeping her in check. But then once Toadstool got involved it reminded us that Marcy was pretty much a tourist and thought she could win the towns favor by importing a bunch of stuff to create an unsustainable environment that didn't mesh with the community. So there isn't that same level of attachment.
And before Lily Pad Thai we had multiple episodes of Anne trying to recreate an aspect of her life back home and failing (Making pizza, Domino II, Her idea of friendship and forcing it on Sprig and Polly) it was satisfying to see her culture get incorporated into Wartwood (Stumpy keeps the Thai theme for the rest of the series whenever you see his place in the background).