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I always look for the chili-garlic paste at Thai/Vietnamese joints, ask for extra jalapenos at the Mexcan restaurant, use the spicy mustard when dinning in a Chinese cafe and always add "extra wasabi please" when noshing on Japanese food.
You can usually find spicy-hot condiments (I like the cilantro chutney) on most Indian buffets as well.
I agree to an extent. I hate it when something is billed as spicy and it's not. I also hate to make something at home that is just fine to me but others think it's too hot.
I am kind of the opposite. I do not like real spicy foods and hate it when I order something and it IS spicy and didn't say so on the menu. If it is too spicy I simply can't eat it.
This is my problem too, but I guess it's all my fault. I basically have a flame-retardant stomach and I could almost drink a glass of battery acid with a smile on my face. So yeah, if a habanero doesn't do it for me none of these restaurants will. Most people are too sissy to handle anything with a lot of that boom shakalaka in it, so restaurants have to cater to wimpy diarrhea-butt crybabies by calling something with no more hotness than cinnamon "FIRE HOT."
You and me both. I used to be able to enjoy spicy foods but now even those Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos make my eyes water and I have to have a glass of milk with them just to cool down. Sadly, my favorite Chinese place has made the Mongolian Beef, which used to be just the right amount of spicy, so darn hot that even milk and water can't help me.
You need to remember that the "spicy notation" in menus was originally put there to help diners AVOID spicy dishes if that's not what they want. That's why even mildly spicy foods are often included. Some places have a sliding "heat rating", which is a little more helpful.
I have a friend who has worked at a Thai restaurant for several years, he now has an insanely high tolerance for heat, and he gets everything "Thai hot"!
I think its because:
1) Restaurants see a bigger risk of serving something hot enough where a person cannot physically eat it vs. serving something that is not hot enough and can be embellished with Tabasco or other products
2) With the exception of some regions in the US, most people don't have an appetite for anything spicier than a buffalo wing..
Oh wow. Now those of us that enjoy the taste of our food are a "p*ssy" and a "wimp". Oh brother.
You're really tough to eat your food so spicy. That's a real man.
I'm sorry, but that was really offensive. And I like things like chicken wings, for example, medium or mild.....preferably mild.
Last edited by rainroosty; 11-17-2009 at 11:39 AM..
Spicy can mean flavorful as in different spices were used.
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