Can you handle the HEAT?

[悲しいパンダ]

Can you eat spicy food? And by that I don't mean "American spicy". I mean "Asian spicy" or "Mexican spicy". I mean come on. A huge majority of Americans are wussies when it comes to spicy food. If you've ever been to certain Asian countries and tried some spicy dishes you'll probably can tell the differences.

Taco Bell's hot sauce isn't even hot. KFC's hot sauce isn't even hot. In matter a fact, any American restuarant (that serves American food) that has anything spicy on their menu, isn't even spicy. Also, Tabasco sauce isn't tabasco-ee.

This thread is based on a conversation I had with a friend when we went out to eat. After reading this post over, its seems like a useless thrad now.

"There's lava in my mouth, son!. But its good; its hot." - Dat Phan on his mother eating spicy food.

[Angelyne]

I agree, a lot of our food is just too bland. I'm not even talking about "hot" spices, a lot of popular cuisine completely lacks any sort of flavorful spice. Chain restaurants are the worst--I have never actually ate anything spicy at one even when the menu labeled it "hot" (although chains suck for many other reasons...).

But I think it depends on the area. Back in my hometown, it was easy to get extremely spicy Asian and Indian cuisines. It was easy to find hot peppers, spices, etc. When I moved out of state, it became extremely difficult to find any kind of spicy food in my new area. The local supermarket doesn't even stock "hot" salsa (only mild), any pepper that is not a bell pepper is relegated to specialty shops, and it's difficult to find chili or cayenne pepper in large quantities. I have yet to find a Chinese place that serves spicy hot food (or if they do, then I'm still getting stuck with the Caucasian menu), and I have lived here for years. Why was it this bad? Because my old hometown had seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the globe, and the my new residence hasn't seen many immigrants in at least a century.

I have learned to get around this by cooking for myself. I have also befriended a few restaurant owners who are more than happy to spice up my dish to what it should be. But it is still frustrating at times.

[Black fist]

I dont usually but when I can I do cause we usually go to small restaurants on a blue moon and I usually seek out the hottest food. This is a problem cause the doctor said that it's fucking up my stomach and I can mess it up permanently.

[Decade]

? Does Wasabi count as Asian spicy? Cause I personally I think it's horribly weak in comparison to Mexican spicy.

Only pussies cant take wasabi

[pangloss]

I can't handle spicy food, unless it tastes sweet.

[h2orowe]

Lullz, we have lots of Asian places 'round here, 'cuz I'm in such a high Asian populated area or whatever you'd call it. So we get Asian spicy lots. One time, my uncle dared me to put those peppers you get in your Chinese food that are supposed to make it spicy, in my mouth for like.. 20 minutes straight, and hold it on my tongue, chew it, etc, to make sure I get the full effect of it, without drinking anything. I did it. 8) I got 5$

We also have those um... Asian red.. hot sauce stuffs.. the one with the rooster on it. That's kinda hot XD

[Digital Masta]

Us negroes love our hot stuff.

I'm always looking to spice shit up.

[seiji]

IRT topic: No.

[Angelyne]

? Does Wasabi count as Asian spicy? Cause I personally I think it's horribly weak in comparison to Mexican spicy.

Only pussies cant take wasabi

A lot of wasabi in the US is runny, watery weak crap. It is rare to find fresh, flavorful wasabi.

Anyways, I don't consider it "Asian spicy'. To me, "Asian spicy" is more peppery and burning hot. I'd put Wasabi "heat" more in the category of hot mustard or horseradish.

[Nuigurumi]

I'm a super, total, mega wimp when it comes to hot foods. Even things that are only mildly spicy make my face transform into hideous positions.

How do I increase my heat index? XD

[ZylitoL]

I bring the heat.

[Digital Masta]

Then there is hot to the point of making what your eating taste better and then hot to the point where it leaves a nasty after taste

[Pierrot le Fou]

Go to Thailand, go into a cheap restaurant filled with Thai folk, and order that frickin' soup from Hell's own kitchen that dissolves your mouth and makes you scream in agony and shit pure magma for a month, then you'll know 'Asian Spicy.'

Korean spicy is pretty f'ing intense too when they go at it. Goddamned tiny Korean restaurant, ordered a hotpot dish, ate something that looked like a red pepper, and had tears pouring out of my eyes for the next 10 minutes as I had to grit my teeth and bear it.

The little Korean owner of the shop looked at me, chuckled, and tried to give me water.

Demon fiend, everyone knows water just makes it worse!

[Roxie]

Can you eat spicy food? And by that I don't mean "American spicy". I mean "Asian spicy" or "Mexican spicy". I mean come on. A huge majority of Americans are wussies when it comes to spicy food. If you've ever been to certain Asian countries and tried some spicy dishes you'll probably can tell the differences. Cajun?

I don't like too much spice. I don't like hot. I don't get it. You can't taste any flavor, all you feel is a burning sensation. I don't enjoy it.

Us negroes love our hot stuff.

Not this one. I like my catfish with mustard and hot sauce, but not much more.

[jindojim]

I like spicy food, but only when it's supposed to be spicy. For instance, I don't add extra hot sauce to hamburgers. Sometimes to french fries but only if there's no ketchup.

Also, there are times when too much heat completely covers up the main flavors of the dish. For instance, this one Italian restaurant that I often ate at made really turned up the heat if you asked for even medium spicy. Hot was bascially a sauce made of chillies instead of tomatoes, and I tried that only once. I'd rather enjoy the rich herby flavor of the sauce than have it masked by heat.

I think Asian cuisine (and maybe Mexican) goes the best with spiciness, in that some foods have enhanced flavors because they're spicy. In fact, Japanese cuisine is probably the only Asian cuisine that doesn't seem to go well with spiciness...unless you think wasabi is spicy. There are two different kinds of spiciness I've encountered with Asian foods. In Chinese, Korean, and Mexican cuisine, the heat sensation is all within your mouth. In South Asian and Indian foods, your entire body heats up, and you actually start sweating if it's spicy enough. I enjoy both kinds of heat sensations, although I'm most used to just having the heat localized in my mouth. These days though, I've become sort of used to the spice in Korean foods, so I enjoy eating South Asian and Indian spicy foods more.

In other words, yes, I can handle the heat.

[otro34]

I can't. I really don't like the way it feels. Tastes? Maybe, because some spicy food it's actually really good... the spicy part is what i can't stand, hehe :P...

Ironic as it is, my favorite dish is "picante a la tacneña" (i can't actually translate that, let's just say it's something like "really spicy peruvian food"), it's food from where i live :P . I eat that, i really love it. And it's awfully spicy :P

[Pierrot le Fou]

I cannot handle TRUE ethnic spice from South Asia or Korea, nor would I particularly want to. There's a point where it ceases being a flavor, and starts just being pain.

[Firefly]

I LOVE spicy food, it is my favorite kind. I've only been out of the country a few times to Mexico, but I didn't eat. (It was just a short day trip). I haven't ever found a place here, in America, that has food that really makes my mouth BURN. The closest was a Korean restaurant that I went to a few years ago, but it didn't cause any "pain"...

Also, Tabasco sauce is gross. Too vinegary, for me.

[jindojim]

Go to Thailand, go into a cheap restaurant filled with Thai folk, and order that frickin' soup from Hell's own kitchen that dissolves your mouth and makes you scream in agony and shit pure magma for a month, then you'll know 'Asian Spicy.'

Is that soup called "Tom Yang Goong" (or something like that) by any chance? Basically prawn w/ lemongrass?

[Pierrot le Fou]

That sounds like it could be it. Makes you shit Magma for a month, right? If so, that's what it is. Fucking melted my innards, made me expel them forcefully in an unpleasant way, and then reconstituted them using the pure hellish spice that had dissolved them to begin with.

Not recommended.

[Hatsumomo]

I enjoy spicy food as a whole. The level depends on how masochistic I'm feeling at the time.

[SlickWilly440]

Spicy foods are the best because adding some spice to any plain meal really kicks it up a knotch! I eat spicy dinners seven times a week and it never gets old.

Does eating a habenero peper count as Mexican Spicy because I have eat one on two occassion, stem, seeds and all! Afterwards I had a slight stomach ache, but not enough to make me feel sick.

Eating to much spicey foods will give you the meaning of my avatar.

[悲しいパンダ]

We also have those um... Asian red.. hot sauce stuffs.. the one with the rooster on it. That's kinda hot XD
I know what your talking about. Its not hot, well that depends how much of it you use. Um...since I don't know its Chinese name, I call it the "Red Rooster Sauce".

Also, Cajun food isn't spicy. But I never been to the south and had real Cajun food.

PLF I think I know what your talking about. My mom made me some before. Pretty spicy.

[Soli]

I have chips with mild salsa, but that's it for me. :)

[jindojim]

That sounds like it could be it. Makes you shit Magma for a month, right? If so, that's what it is. Fucking melted my innards, made me expel them forcefully in an unpleasant way, and then reconstituted them using the pure hellish spice that had dissolved them to begin with.

Not recommended.

:rofl:
Only times I remember having a burning bowel movement (aka shitting Magma) are when I eat pickled jalapenos with nachos at my college's Mexican eatery. I do recall that the Thai soup gave me an upset stomach though. I tried it at a Thai restaurant in Japan rather than in Thailand, which is probably why I didn't experience the fires of hell.

[Pierrot le Fou]

I can eat Jalapeños happily. Jalapeños are nothing in comparison to that demon-soup.

I have had two things in my life spicy enough to make me contemplate offing myself. One was the demon Korean pepper, and the other was the Thai soup. The Demon Korean Pepper was bad in the sense that I was already eating tons of spice, and entirely unsuspecting of that delicious bell-pepper-esque red thing in my soup. The Thai was infinite degrees worse, because I knew it was spicy, took MICROSCOPIC amounts, and still felt the fires of Hell burning in my bowels. I took this as a reason to eat it with rice, and regret it to this day.

Just absolute spicy Hell.

[Jiant Flying Panda]

For the most part yeah. I just need a lot of iced water.

And oh yeah. No one can handle a High. Explosive. Anti. Tank. round :P

[Neon Pink Shoehorn]

I have a jar of pickled cherry peppers. they clean out the sinuses.

[Decade]

Go to Thailand, go into a cheap restaurant filled with Thai folk, and order that frickin' soup from Hell's own kitchen that dissolves your mouth and makes you scream in agony and shit pure magma for a month, then you'll know 'Asian Spicy.'

Korean spicy is pretty f'ing intense too when they go at it. Goddamned tiny Korean restaurant, ordered a hotpot dish, ate something that looked like a red pepper, and had tears pouring out of my eyes for the next 10 minutes as I had to grit my teeth and bear it.

The little Korean owner of the shop looked at me, chuckled, and tried to give me water.

Demon fiend, everyone knows water just makes it worse!

OH.

well, this was just perfect timing, cause I finally got someone to give this training bra I found on the street to, cause our little girl seems to need it.



(I just watched that family guy ep and couldn't resist. All in good fun, all in good fun :innocent:

...and yes I'm aware he's going to just verbally rape me for this one :box:)

[Myrsilus]

? Does Wasabi count as Asian spicy? Cause I personally I think it's horribly weak in comparison to Mexican spicy.

Only pussies cant take wasabi
I grew up on Mexican food and spice, and I still hate the feel and taste of wasabi. I'd rather take the jalapeño-based spice in Mexican food any day.

I recall one night where my friends and I had a habanero-eating contest. Definitely challenging, and funny since one guy got seeds stuck in his braces, and they kept popping randomly.

If I have to eat spicy food, I'm picky as hell. I'd prefer it, too, if the spicy food was made delicious instead of just challenging to eat. I'm not much for absurdly spicy foods.

I've yet to try a good number of Asian spicy foods, and I do not think I can where I currently live. Here's to hoping I end up in good places.

[Roxie]

Also, Cajun food isn't spicy. But I never been to the south and had real Cajun food.

If you've never had it, then how can you say such?

[悲しいパンダ]

If you've never had it, then how can you say such?
Oh! I forgot to mention I have tried Cajun food but it was at a restuarant here in California. Yeah, it wasn't spicy IMO.

[Pierrot le Fou]

OH.

well, this was just perfect timing, cause I finally got someone to give this training bra I found on the street to, cause our little girl seems to need it.



(I just watched that family guy ep and couldn't resist. All in good fun, all in good fun :innocent:

...and yes I'm aware he's going to just verbally rape me for this one :box:)
No, I'm just going to force feed you that soup until you melt through the center of the earth on your way to Thailand through the hole created by your acidic spice-flatulence/fecal matter.

And y'know what? When you get near the center of the earth, and it's umpteen-trillion degrees, you'll say, "Damn, who turned on the AC? That feels nice!"

[Decade]

...another family guy quote retort would have been sufficient :box:

[Roxie]

Oh! I forgot to mention I have tried Cajun food but it was at a restuarant here in California. Yeah, it wasn't spicy IMO. Then it wasn't Cajun.
They lied to you.

I demand a lawsuit! [/great american tradition]

[Knife-Fingered Sue Sanderson]

I'm in full agreement with Fujin. I love spicy food, but I really don't like the taste of wasabi.

In Chinese, Korean, and Mexican cuisine, the heat sensation is all within your mouth. In South Asian and Indian foods, your entire body heats up, and you actually start sweating if it's spicy enough.

Hmm...I had some Mexican food that made me sweat pretty badily on my face. My friends just laughed at me because it looked like I was condensating.

[jindojim]

I can eat Jalapeños happily. Jalapeños are nothing in comparison to that demon-soup.

Oh, those pickled jalapeños weren't that spicy when I put them into my mouth. Coming out the other end though...:fever:

[c-rex]

I have eaten the salsa of death at many Mexicen restraunts in the American southwest and in mexico, I have yet to feel pain. Once when slightly buzzed I drank an entire dish of suicide salsa at a mexican restraunt in New Mexico (Rosie's, a lovely place near Carlsbad). My stomach seethed for a day but beyond that I lived. I've also had that nasty hot fish sauce in 'Nam. Nuke mom as I incorrectly say it.

[Plekto]

I just had to laugh at the concept of "Mexican Spicy"

Real spicy is authentic Indian food. The stuff that makes your ears buzz and then keeps going for an hour. It's astounding because it's not your tastebuds but your whole body that feels it.

That said, Japapeňo Pizza is good. It's kind of like Kimchee Pizza.(actually not that bad.. no , really)

Seconfd place goes to Cajun. Had it in Natchitoches, LA. Crazy good but yeah... There's blackened fish and *Cajun* Blackened. It was so hot that the fish was there only to serve as a break from the heat. ;)

[mamba]

I love Indian food, even the stupidly hot curries are still tasty, just after eating i cant feel anything for a while, but that's why i always have a couple of cans of bitter around while I'm eating. The Indian takeaway just down the road makes the hottest madras I have ever had.

[Trump]

Most of the "real spicy" food is that way because they cannot cook normally. They cannot create a pleasing blend of flavors so they use spicy peppers to cover everything up. It is depressing and blasphemous to food itself.

Either that or the food is design to placate the people who have seared off their taste buds from eating too much spicy food. Those are the people who couldn't taste normal food anyway so sure, make them sweat. My roommate depresses me. He puts hot sauce on pizza!!! PIZZA!!! Sigh...

To me, the perfect blend is when the spiciness builds over the course of the meal. It's when you don't realize it is spicy until you are halfway through and thinking "damn, why am I sweating?"

[Roxie]

Most of the "real spicy" food is that way because they cannot cook normally. They cannot create a pleasing blend of flavors so they use spicy peppers to cover everything up. It is depressing and blasphemous to food itself.

Exactly!

Hot is not a flavor, it's a sensation. A bit of spicyness can enhance flavor, but I hate it when it overwhelms it and all I've got is hot lips and red tounge.

[Pierrot le Fou]

You should have made it a slogan: "Hot is not a flavor, it's a lifestyle choice." or somesuch...

[xtine]

Usually Japanese food isn't spicy, but there's this place called Orochon Ramen (http://www.orochonramen.com/menu.html) near me that serves some pretty spicy ramen. I got the level 1 extreme spicy ramen, and it was really good. Like it was delicious because I like spicy food, but during I kept blowing my nose and my bf said my eyes looked watery (but really wasn't watery).

My lips were a little red afterward, and my stomach felt a little weird the rest of the day until I ate some potatoes and rice, I suppose some starch to offset the spices swishing around my stomach.

I'm not a wuss, but I really can't take really really spicy.

[Roxie]

You should have made it a slogan: "Hot is not a flavor, it's a lifestyle choice." or somesuch...

OH! Cute! :innocent:
I would, but I don't like hot.

Maybe you can!

[jindojim]

I think one of the spiciest meals I've had was a mild version of that Thai hell soup PLF was talking about (which was still spicy), followed by Thai green curry (which was extremely spicy). My eyes were watering, my mouth was burning, and my body was sweating, but I kept putting that curry into my mouth, despite the waves of pain every spoonful was causing. Plus, I had no liquid to quell the heat when the curry rolled around, since I had drunk it all while eating the appetizers.

Despite the pain, the meal was delicious and cured me of my cold. Although I had to leave the restaurant right after finishing the meal because I needed to cool down in the winter air.

[Pierrot le Fou]

OH! Cute! :innocent:
I would, but I don't like hot.

Maybe you can!
I don't like men, but I have no problem calling homosexuality a lifestyle choice -- the point is that slogans are fun, and we should make more. Just generally speaking.

'Have a gerbil lodged in your rectum? Eat Thai food -- I guarantee he'll leave (or die trying)'

[Digital Masta]

I think one of the spiciest meals I've had was a mild version of that Thai hell soup PLF was talking about (which was still spicy), followed by Thai green curry (which was extremely spicy). My eyes were watering, my mouth was burning, and my body was sweating, but I kept putting that curry into my mouth, despite the waves of pain every spoonful was causing. Plus, I had no liquid to quell the heat when the curry rolled around, since I had drunk it all while eating the appetizers.


See that to me isn't fun eating.

[akitaka]

Usually Japanese food isn't spicy, but there's this place called Orochon Ramen (http://www.orochonramen.com/menu.html) near me that serves some pretty spicy ramen. I got the level 1 extreme spicy ramen, and it was really good. Like it was delicious because I like spicy food, but during I kept blowing my nose and my bf said my eyes looked watery (but really wasn't watery).

My lips were a little red afterward, and my stomach felt a little weird the rest of the day until I ate some potatoes and rice, I suppose some starch to offset the spices swishing around my stomach.

I'm not a wuss, but I really can't take really really spicy.

Sounds like Tan tan-men, or ramen loaded with chili oil. Totally awesome stuff, and great to have during the winter.

[xtine]

Sounds like Tan tan-men, or ramen loaded with chili oil. Totally awesome stuff, and great to have during the winter.

It was sorta like traditional ramen, only they made their own spices to put into it. Didn't have chili oil in it.

However, I have had tan tan-men, the chinese kind, both in China and Hong Kong. DAMN THAT STUFF IS SO GOOD. Yeah, I really like it really spicy, but since it's mostly of chili oil sometimes it's distracting to the taste if it's too full of oil. Depends where it's made though. There's another ramen place close to my area that serves the Japanese version of tan tan-men, so I should try that out sometime.

[jindojim]

Seeing that ramen is originally Chinese, a little spiciness does help it out. And tan tan men is delicious (Chinpokomon actually was the one who introduced me to it).

Traditional Japanese food, however, doesn't seem to be helped by any sort of spice. And their curry has none of that adventure that Thai green curry has :D

Oh, what about this slogan: "Don't hate the heat, appreci-eat!" Heh, I guess it's kinda corny...

[Pierrot le Fou]

Oh, what about this slogan: "Don't hate the heat, appreci-eat!" Heh, I guess it's kinda corny...
appreci-ATE makes far more sense.

So, "Hot food, don't hate, tastes good, appreci-ATE"

See?

(I work in marketing sometimes)

[xtine]

While I appreciate Japanese curry for it's deliciousness, it's in a completely different realm for curry. There are chinese, thai, and indian curries so different spicy, and also blindingly spicy. Japanese curry, in comparison, is like the opposite of spicy.

Not that it's bad or anything, it's just a different type of curry with a different taste. But sometimes with the mention of you curry you think of a little bit of spice.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Next time you're in Japan, please visit Co-co ichi, and get their level 10 spicy curry.

Then repeat your statement with fiery intestines missing your tongue.

Unfortunately they don't seem to have the menu comments describing the spice levels up on the net, because they're funny as Hell (both in English and Japanese).

[japanat]

Tom Yan Kun is that fiery prawn concoction. Love that shit! --so to speak-- But my wife usually leaves me in another room after that. I can eat jalapenos straight (although they do tend to burn their way out), but the Tom Yan makes me look like I just finished a marathon :gloomy: (doubly appealing on my big frame...). Love the Thai curries, too - green and yellow more than the red.

Went to Pusan to renew a visa in 1992; got off the ferry and went to a little shop just under the Wendy's near the main station for breakfast. The menu had no pictures, and anti-US riots had just ended 2 days before, so the waitress wasn't exactly helpful. So I rotated my finger in the air until it hit the menu. She smirked, then got my meal. OH MY GOD! The breakfast ramen from hell! Ramen with 2 eggs and about 20 red peppers.... I had Wendy's the next two days.

But nothing clears my sinuses like a huge dose of wasabi.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Tom Yan Kun. Okay. Write it in Thai letters for me such that I know NEVER to order ANYTHING even approximating those characters? Thanks.

[xtine]

Next time you're in Japan, please visit Co-co ichi, and get their level 10 spicy curry.

Then repeat your statement with fiery intestines missing your tongue.

Unfortunately they don't seem to have the menu comments describing the spice levels up on the net, because they're funny as Hell (both in English and Japanese).

Woww...where is this exactly? I will probably visit this the next time I do go to Japan, because my curiosity is indeed piqued. I mean when you talk or think about Japanese curry usually it's the household and restaurant stuff that everyone is used to. I've actually really wanted to try the Japanese variety of curry that is really spicy. :D

[Pierrot le Fou]

It's a chain curry place. It's all over Japan.

And I'd bet 10,000 to one that you can't finish the whole plate without a whole boatload of milk to kill the spice.

You may want to eat a more realistic (but still spicy!) 3 or 4.

[jindojim]

I'm not gonna take that bet, but I'm willing to give this level 10 curry at CoCo Ichibanya a shot...if I can locate the nearest one.

If it's milder than green curry, I want my money back.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Okay jim, here's the dilly. If you succeed within the following parameters, I'll furikomi you double the price of the curry you successfully eat: You can only drink the (free) water that they provide, no milk, dairy, beer, cola, or anything else
You have to get a regular size (I think that's 400 grams) of regular curry (in other words, no soup curry or anything)
You have to eat the WHOLE thing (not one grain of rice remaining, no pools of curry left on your plate)
You have to finish it within 30 minutes of getting it
Just for reference, you really don't want to do this. You will lose. I highly recommend trying something around 4 or 5 first. Just to get an idea of the spice Hell you're about to enter. Unless you're inhuman, even with a 5 this challenge would be difficult (milk is really really REALLY necessary).

But, y'know, it'd be funny to watch anyway. You should have someone video it, so you can put it on youtube.

[Jay]

I can't handle much spice. And by 'much' I mean put a teaspoon of chili powder in and leave it at that. Love the taste, don't like the heat.

[4letterwords]

My boyfriend made spicy korean ramen with cabbage, onions, moyashi, pork, ginger and garlic.

It was so damn good that I gave him a blow job and high five... in reverse order.

[Pierrot le Fou]

So you really gave him a high five, then a blowjob, so he took you out for ramen?

Can we skip steps 1 and 3, I think I've got 900 yen or so in my pocket...

[Jay]

Doesn't that equate to roughly 10 bucks?

[4letterwords]

more like 7

[Jay]

7 bucks to perform Step 2 with PlF?

He's selling you a bit cheap there I think...

[4letterwords]

First you get'm hooked then they come looking for more. That's business.

[Jay]

Smart, smart. I thought of that, but I thought 7 bucks was a little short, even for the first time...

[悲しいパンダ]

Okay jim, here's the dilly. If you succeed within the following parameters, I'll furikomi you double the price of the curry you successfully eat: You can only drink the (free) water that they provide, no milk, dairy, beer, cola, or anything else
You have to get a regular size (I think that's 400 grams) of regular curry (in other words, no soup curry or anything)
You have to eat the WHOLE thing (not one grain of rice remaining, no pools of curry left on your plate)
You have to finish it within 30 minutes of getting it
Just for reference, you really don't want to do this. You will lose. I highly recommend trying something around 4 or 5 first. Just to get an idea of the spice Hell you're about to enter. Unless you're inhuman, even with a 5 this challenge would be difficult (milk is really really REALLY necessary).

But, y'know, it'd be funny to watch anyway. You should have someone video it, so you can put it on youtube.

I think I could do that. Let me do a "Homer Simpson". Remember that episode when Homer eats like a bunch of spicy stuff. I'll just do what he did to complete your task.

[Roxie]

"Hot food, don't hate, tastes good, appreci-ATE"

That's chant worthy. For some reason, it makes me envision a protest....a protest for what? I am not sure!

[悲しいパンダ]

Why is it that CHEETOS FLAMIN' HOT® Cheese Flavored Snacks isn't even hot? Though some people tell me it is hot. Damn softies! Also, I would like to say FRITOS FLAMIN' HOT® Flavored Corn Chips may not be hot but I love it!

[jindojim]

Ok, PLF. I'll be eating the hottest curry @ Coco Ichibanya tomorrow for lunch, since I've located the nearest one to my apartment.

I'll take a picture of the plate before the meal (adding a time/date stamp) and after the meal (adding another time/date stamp). If the last picture shows an empty plate, you will treat my gf and I to some sorta cheap lunch (ie <900 yen per dish) if we have the opportunity to come to Kyoto. If the last picture shows a plate w/ leftover food, I'll treat you to some sorta cheap lunch (provided I'm able to visit Kyoto). Or if you visit Tokyo.

I'll also make some sorta statement in this thread, if I can't finish in 30 minutes, about how I've shamed my family and Koreans everywhere :P

I'm not uploading a video onto Youtube because I'd rather not be like one of those people who just take videos of themselves doing mundane things. So, you'll just have to take my word that I'll be picking the level 10 spicy curry.

(Oh, and you can pick the dish I order. They're all fine to me, but I'd rather go w/ the cheapest varieties. No veggie curry tho.)

[pangloss]

I have had two things in my life spicy enough to make me contemplate offing myself. One was the demon Korean pepper, and the other was the Thai soup. The Demon Korean Pepper was bad in the sense that I was already eating tons of spice, and entirely unsuspecting of that delicious bell-pepper-esque red thing in my soup. The Thai was infinite degrees worse, because I knew it was spicy, took MICROSCOPIC amounts, and still felt the fires of Hell burning in my bowels. I took this as a reason to eat it with rice, and regret it to this day.

Just absolute spicy Hell.

See, now I feel compelled to try that soup now.
I'll ask my aunt to hook me up with that thai stuff.
Damn masochistic tendacies:bang:

[japanat]

jindojim,

Good luck! I tried that curry once, and I swear my stomach moved like a bellydancer (or a sumo wrestler...)

PLF: I found it. Tom Yum Kung - ต้มยำกุ้ง dtom yam goong
One version has shrimp, but you could also cook it with chicken if you like. The basic ingredients are all the same. Shrimp, straw mushrooms, lightly crushed hot red chilis, sliced galangal, lemongrass stems, torn kaffir lime leaves, coriander, and seasoned with fish sauce, sugar and some lime juice. Use chicken stock to make up the soup.

[Pierrot le Fou]

You're going to die jindojimmy, but boy will it be a pleasant death!

(just FYI, bring some milk with you -- no using it during the meal! But when you're done, feel free to kill the evil spice)

[jindojim]

Veni, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered.]

My thoughts: When I first posted in this thread, I recall saying something about how I don't typically add things to make traditionally non-spicy foods spicy. Japanese curry, in my opinion, should not be spicy. This level 10 spicy curry dish was a perfect example how foods that are perfect without any added spice are completely ruined by the addition of excess spice. In fact, this dish was pretty much what happens if you drown a dish in spice.

The meal specs: Basically a piece of tonkatsu smothered in curry sauce with 300g of rice. No other vegetables or toppings.

Now, for the actual consumption. When I took those few initial bites, I began hiccuping violently. It got so bad that I thought I couldn't finish just because of the hiccups rather than the spice. However, they soon quelled after I drank a bit of water. And, as for the taste, it was pretty much what you would expect if some dumped an entire container of black pepper and another container of red pepper into Japanese curry. Simply put, it was overwhelmingly hot and spicy. Each spoonful of curry sauce was like putting a red hot poker into my mouth, and I could literally feel my body temperature rising. Being the masocist that I am, I just kept shovelling it into my mouth, pausing only to either blow my nose or take a sip of ice water. I didn't need to take giant gulps of water actually because simply having some cold water in my mouth was actually enough to slightly bring my body temperature down and wash away the extra spice from my mouth.
About halfway through, I comtemplating stripping off my sweater to reveal my undershirt and go running outside into the cold and very windy winter air. For the sake of the other customers, I managed to control myself. It got easier however once I passed that point, since I had gotten used to the fact that I would be stuck in Japanese curry hell until I finished the dish. So, I continued eating it, and before I knew it, I was done. I paid my bill, and felt temporarily warm and toasty in the face of a chilly day.

Anyway, that's my tale of eating the spiciest curry in Coco Ichibanya. It was an utter waste of money and adding the extra spice cost 100 yen more, which was ridiculous. Bite for bite, I'd rank Thai green curry ahead of this curry in terms of spiciness. However, this one was overall worse by far though because it wasn't very tasty or flavorful. And the amount of curry was far more copious, which simply prolonged my suffering. If I eat at Coco Ichibanya again, I think I'll just order the Grandma's Curry without any extra spice.

[bakagaijin]

I've gotta tip my cap to you jindojim. Well done.

[Jay]

That's ridiculous. Well done sir, bravo!

[japanat]

Jimdojim,
Congrats! I agree with you completely, though; like Texas 5-alarm chili, the spices drown out any flavor there might be. Thai curry all the way. Or Tom Yam...

[Pierrot le Fou]

I've been bested -- come to Kansai and I owe you (and your girlfriend) one

[Daishikaze]

I love Indian food, even the stupidly hot curries are still tasty, just after eating i cant feel anything for a while, but that's why i always have a couple of cans of bitter around while I'm eating. The Indian takeaway just down the road makes the hottest madras I have ever had.

"Of Course! Lager, the only thing that can kill a Vindaloo!" ;)

American spicy might be weak as hell, but try living on Swiss food for an extended period of time and you'll be begging for that weak american spicy, just to have some flavor for a change. Seriously, Swiss people don't seem to enjoy spicy or even just flavorful food.

[ZaichikArky]

heehee. Back to the original question for a minute. Can I handle TEH HEAT??!! The answer is no. As in, not at all, really XD. I blame it on my Russian upbringing. Russian food is some of the world's most BLAND food. It is very bland. So bland that Russians add sour cream to spice things up. literally.

Anyway, so I can't tolerate any kind of spicy food at all. I detest Mexican food because of this, especially Mexican food. I have never had any kind of Mexican food that was not spicy in some way. Literally the only kind of Mexican food I like isn't even Mexican. If I ever go to a taqueria, I order a burrito and ask them what kinds of spices they put in it and then make sure everything in the burrito is completely bland. Hey, they're supposed to have sour cream so... it's Russian enough XD.

For me, spicy food and carbonated drinks are the same. I very rarely drink carbonated drinks first of all because they're REALLY bad for you, but mainly because drinking soda puts my mouth in pain, as does eating spicy things. I don't like my mouth to be in pain, so I not only eat bland food, but drink bland drinks too. Like, when I was younger I used to like really sugary drinks(primarily juices) but now I generally stay away from juices in general and drink Vitamin water or... water water. If I find my food is TOO bland, I put salt, ketchup, mayo, or ranch in it. Only one of those 4 choices.

I still think it's awesome when people eat REALLY spicy food like whole jalapeños and never even flinch or drink water with it. I would never EVER be able to do that.

The funny thing is that I love curry :p. Though every time I eat it, I have to ask the waiters just how spicy it is and if they can make me a "mild" version. I usually stick to yellow curry, because I know it's the safest.

[bakagaijin]

Jindojim: A new challenge for you.

When you grow tired of the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, travel to Laos. Laid back, peaceful, not overrun with tourists, and home to some of the spiciest dishes in SE Asia. (Yes, even spicier than those in Thailand)

[悲しいパンダ]

Jindojim: A new challenge for you.

When you grow tired of the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, travel to Laos. Laid back, peaceful, not overrun with tourists, and home to some of the spiciest dishes in SE Asia. (Yes, even spicier than those in Thailand)
This is true. My sister went to visit my cousins in Laos a couple of years ago and she had some kind of dish. She said it was a killer. Like, you could die from eating it. She only ate like 1/4 of the food on the plate.

[jindojim]

I don't eat spicy foods often actually. Plus, I relish them only if the spiciness of the dish complements its flavor.

If Laotian cuisine is like that, then I'm sort of interested in giving it a shot, but Laos isn't really on the top of the list for places I'd like to travel to. So maybe I'll check to see if there are any local restaurants that serve it or search for recipes on the Internet. However, from Kanashii Panda's testimony, it sounds like it's more spicy than tasty, which is something I'd rather stay away from...

[bakagaijin]

I don't eat spicy foods often actually. Plus, I relish them only if the spiciness of the dish complements its flavor.

If Laotian cuisine is like that, then I'm sort of interested in giving it a shot, but Laos isn't really on the top of the list for places I'd like to travel to. So maybe I'll check to see if there are any local restaurants that serve it or search for recipes on the Internet. However, from Kanashii Panda's testimony, it sounds like it's more spicy than tasty, which is something I'd rather stay away from...


It's similar to NE Thai food, so if you like that you'll like Laotian food. It's not like Coco ichiban, where that add spice just for the sake of making it spicy.
As for local.. if you mean Tokyo you most likely wouldn't be getting the real stuff. I've never eaten at a Laotian restaurant in Japan. I've eaten at plenty of Thai ones though, and I've never eaten at one who's dishes contain the level of spice found in Thailand. (Obviously, I haven't eaten at all of the Thai restaurants in Japan, so there's bound to be a few good ones.)