Shredded Morning Glory Stalks (better have strong teeth)

Everyone knows Thai style stir fried morning glory.

Pak boong fai deng.

But today I saw on a menu -- SHREDDED morning glory.

Got the dish and it was spiced extremely well, possibly a different recipe than the regular.

So the flavor was great.
What came were indeed SHREDDED stalks (no leaves).

However, what shocked me was the texture.

Extremely hard to chew. So much so that I found it was too much work to chew the entire dish so had to spit out some of it as I'm not willing to spend a hour chewing greens.

It was so rough I can imagine people could even choke on it.

I'm at a total loss about why this was.

At first I thought maybe a different vegetable but found that shredded style morning glory is really a thing. However, compared to the picture below my dish was even more shredded than that. Maybe they have a special machine to make it so thin.

Then I wondered, was that texture intentional? If so, why and how?

I don't recall ever getting a plate of regular style that was any kind of effort to eat.

Anyway, I certainly enjoyed having the experience, but a plate of green vegetables that is harder to chew than a tough Thai beef steak isn't my usual idea of a good time.

I would have loved it with more texture than the regular style, but only about half as much,

Amporn's Thai Kitchen: Stir-fried the shredded stalks morning glory