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I got your point now, and don't know people who are not tolerate of hot food but can enjoy extremely hot food, other than Koreans, especially Korean men.
Hmm... I might know what those Koreans do. What did you do every weekend when you were a college student? For me, go out and get drunk. If I could drink more than others, then I thought I was a man, lol.
Ain't that the truth. I recall not long after I moved here to China, I was at a bar with many Africans, Middle Easterners, and Latin Americans... after a number of beers, I chugged four bottles of Tabasco sauce and drank a jar of Guilin pepper sauce to prove my tolerance for heat, which of course was really just a measure of "manliness." Lots of pats on the back and selfies with guys who were flabbergasted, and probably thinking to themselves, "better your stomach than mine..." :X
Even as someone with a superhuman tolerance for spiciness, I never really understood why it was considered "manly." I just like hot food because I like hot food
Ain't that the truth. I recall not long after I moved here to China, I was at a bar with many Africans, Middle Easterners, and Latin Americans... after a number of beers, I chugged four bottles of Tabasco sauce and drank a jar of Guilin pepper sauce to prove my tolerance for heat, which of course was really just a measure of "manliness." Lots of pats on the back and selfies with guys who were flabbergasted, and probably thinking to themselves, "better your stomach than mine..." :X
Even as someone with a superhuman tolerance for spiciness, I never really understood why it was considered "manly." I just like hot food because I like hot food
LOL!
Men tend to be more extreme than women. Here I am thinking of serial killers, philosophers, politicians, and so on.
That's why we, or men, think one who can go extreme is a man. How stupid are we?
In general, wealthier coastal areas in China eat less spicy food. But if the region is inland, less prosperous and has a drier/wetter climate, then the people there tend to eat spicier food. Let's take eastern China for an example. Places like Shanghai, Ningbo or Suzhou don't eat much spicy food (aside from the popularity of Sichuanese cuisine). But if you go inland to southern Anhui or southwestern Zhejiang the cuisine there can be hot and spicy like as in Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan. Same reason why northwestern Chinese cuisine is also quite spicy.
I have no clue, but all I know is that some Sichuan restaurants I've been to (in California and Hong Kong) felt like I was breathing fire. Almost everything had large amounts of chili peppers in it. Soups were blanketed with a sea of redness. Actually it's so hot it makes my lips numb.
Most overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and the West do not eat much spicy food. As most of them originated from Shanghai, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, where traditionally the food there are not spicy. Recent trend of more spiciness in the overseas Chinese community are due to new influence from inland China and the Southeast Asians.
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In general, wealthier coastal areas in China eat less spicy food. But if the region is inland, less prosperous and has a drier/wetter climate, then the people there tend to eat spicier food. Let's take eastern China for an example. Places like Shanghai, Ningbo or Suzhou don't eat much spicy food (aside from the popularity of Sichuanese cuisine). But if you go inland to southern Anhui or southwestern Zhejiang the cuisine there can be hot and spicy like as in Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan. Same reason why northwestern Chinese cuisine is also quite spicy.
I have no clue, but all I know is that some Sichuan restaurants I've been to (in California and Hong Kong) felt like I was breathing fire. Almost everything had large amounts of chili peppers in it. Soups were blanketed with a sea of redness. Actually it's so hot it makes my lips numb.
Laos should be bumped up right behind or on par with Thailand, IMO.
The issan reign of Thailand is heavily ethnically Lao anyway.
Korean food is not spicy at all IMHO...but Japan would be the absolute lowest. (Not that they are bad - I highly enjoy both but they are not spicy.)
you mean Lao is heavily influenced by Isan region, right? How comes it's Lao food when they use Thai food products like fish sauce and shrimp paste?
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