Fire!!

[Sheridan]

so I just finished eating my lunch. red curry tofu thai hot from a local thai resturant. it was one of the spiciest things I have ever eaten. the top of my head got all hot (it's still a bit warm), I started to sweat and then my neck cracked. I think I've completely drained my sinuses and my mouth and throat are still in the midst of the slow burn. so harsh yet so good!!

anyone else like spicy food?
what are your favorite styles, dishes, etc?

[Ruben A]

yeh... nice rush.. not too hot though. I still wanna be able to sit down.

[Sheridan]

man, it's been like 15 minutes since I finished it and I am still a bit wobly. I can still feel it in my tummy. I just feel so spaced out now.

[grobelaar]

Chilli tends to be something that you build a resistance to, so it's not neccesarily how hot something is but how much hotter something is to that which you are used to.

Hottest thing I've ever eaten was beef noodle soup at a vietnamese restaurant. It came with a seperate plate of chopped chillis, bean sprouts and fresh chinese cabbage - thinking that the chillis weren't already in soup I scraped the whole lot into the bowl. The next half hour was indescrible - the soup was actually really delicious, but it was like hot fire water. I was beetroot red, sweat pouring off me, I drank about 3 or 4 homemade lemonades that they do, basically lots of lemon juice and sugar in a glass of ice water. BUt about half way through it seemed to abate, or rather I seem to relax into the heat and I began enjoying it.

At the moment it felt like my chilli eating skill had levelled up by about 20 levels in one sitting, since that moment I've been reasonable resistant to fairly hot food - to the point where I've got into trouble cooking spicy food for friends and housemates. Although with my recent stomach problem (which seems to be on the mend) I really had to tone down my love of the spice...

[JE:5]

Originally posted by Sheridan
so I just finished eating my lunch. red curry tofu thai hot from a local thai resturant. it was one of the spiciest things I have ever eaten. the top of my head got all hot (it's still a bit warm), I started to sweat and then my neck cracked. I think I've completely drained my sinuses and my mouth and throat are still in the midst of the slow burn. so harsh yet so good!!

anyone else like spicy food?
what are your favorite styles, dishes, etc?

Just wait till it comes out the other end ;)

[wheezer]

Almost everyone I know thinks that the food I eat is too spicy, but I come from a family where my dad would regularly challenge waiters in Indian or Thai restaurants to make his dish as spicy as possible.

I love spicy food, especially when I'm hung over, it just gets me going again. One of our habits in the summer is to go to a nearby Thai restaurant and order the seafood soup. Spicy as fuck, especially by local standards - I think pepper was only discovered by the Finnish populace halfway through the last century ;)

[Hagbard]

I like it very spicy, although there is definitely a point at which spice overtakes flavour. I found it interesting in the states that you can get stupidly hot Mexican food, but yet the Indian and Thai food I had wasn't that hot (although very tasty).
New York, what fucking incredible yet cheap food.

[thembuzz]

Originally posted by Steev
I like it very spicy

fnarr

[Jeniffer Mills]

I love it real spicy! This is an ingredient thats allways in my fridge. A paste made of red chillies that goes with everything!!!! sambal oelek.Note it burns twice!!

http://www.ctfood.se/u_img/flower_brand_-_sambal_oelek_-_375g.jpg:) :)

[Hagbard]

Yeah man, I dig the Sambal Oelek.. although I can ruin meals for my girlfriend if i'm not careful...

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by JE:5



Just wait till it comes out the other end ;)

I know. that thought has occured to me.

@steev: the reason that indian and thai places aren't as spicy in the states is a lot of people in the states don't like or can't handle their spices. so they 'dumb down' the food. you have to ask them to make it 'thai hot' like I did. the dish I had normally has a pleasant and very enjoyable spiciness to it. I usually get it thai hot but this time the chef just killed it.

[Hagbard]

Originally posted by Sheridan
@steev: the reason that indian and thai places aren't as spicy in the states is a lot of people in the states don't like or can't handle their spices. so they 'dumb down' the food. you have to ask them to make it 'thai hot' like I did. the dish I had normally has a pleasant and very enjoyable spiciness to it. I usually get it thai hot but this time the chef just killed it.

Yeah but it seems like everyone likes Mexican food and they don't dumb that down in the hotness stakes (I'm not trying to get into a Tex-Mex vs REAL Mexican debate here btw ;) )

[Jeniffer Mills]

Whenever i eat hot food, damn! Sweat runs down my forehead like the niagra falls! Even thinking of spicy food makes me sweat. Alot of people think that i`m sort of suffering then..But wrong i`m enjoying it!

[love_tempo]

I'm always ok in the UK or Ireland but the first few weeks in SF I always have a raw bum (from the mexican food, that is!).

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by Steev


Yeah but it seems like everyone likes Mexican food and they don't dumb that down in the hotness stakes (I'm not trying to get into a Tex-Mex vs REAL Mexican debate here btw ;) )

I hear you. I am not sure why mexican food stays the way it is. maybe because it has been a standard ethnic food in the states for a very long time. whereas your asian cuisine is newer to the states by comparison.

[drop]

if you ever go to boston
go to brown sugar in the fens
not the one on commonwealth

order the drunken noodle with seafood and tell them you want it hot
and one of those thai beers
this is ohmahgawd thisissogoodyeti'minsomuchpain food
my favorite

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by Warren D.
Whenever i eat hot food, damn! Sweat runs down my forehead like the niagra falls! Even thinking of spicy food makes me sweat. Alot of people think that i`m sort of suffering then..But wrong i`m enjoying it!

I'm the same, sweat buckets. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be spicy - if the food is just good and I get into a good shovelling session, I can get a sweat on...

I think there's a jewish term which is something like schvitz, which is yiddish for sweat or summink...

[grobelaar]

I remember seeing a very old episode of Keith Floyd cooking programme (a British tv chef who'd travel to different parts of the globe, meet and greet various people and then have a good at cooking some food with local ingredients).

Any way in this one, it looks like his gone back in time - he's somewhere in Texas, in the middle of nowhere. He's in some saloon and there's a couple of modern day cowboys. Keith does some cooking and makes some chile type dish. In the dish he uses dried chillis - these big black fuckers and he puts so many in that the dish is almost black.

So he serves up a couple of plates to these two local cowboys, one of them starts tucking in and says it tastes good, the other one has a mouthful, says it tastes a bit bland to him, picks up the plate and puts it on the floor so his dog can eat it.

[thembuzz]

what happens to the dog?

[drop]

claimed it was bland as well
and pissed on the plate

[pongoid]

Oh my goodness, doin some more of the green tofu curry that my lady and I made last night. I went a bit overboard on the curry paste, and it's definately "inspiring" to say the very least. It was hot enough that my eyes stung like hell while cooking it, so one might indeed call this a Triple-burner. The oddest part though is that because of my roomate's affinity for things inordinately piquante, my tongue's tolerance for spicy heat has grown to the point where it only seems a bit spicy, but my nose and eyes are quite active in their running, both upon input and output. Sweats too. Proper. My girl had to fry up a couple eggs to finish her bowl, but...sure tastes good to me. Me ring hurts a bit though.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by pongoid
Me ring hurts a bit though.

lol

burn baby burn. ;)