I went to a Korean hot pot place one time and ordered the hottest broth. The waitress, who barely spoke English, asked if I was sure. I said yes and when they brought it out I was sweating buckets but still loved the food. The waitress actually brought out a fan and stuck it next to my table. 10 out of 10, Would sweat again
One time I went to an Indian restaurant with my boss (from south India) and a Mexican coworker. I ordered my food mild, my boss ordered his medium, and the Mexican guy ordered his hot. My boss tried to warn him but he insisted that he could handle spicy food.
The food came out, the Mexican guy had no problem eating his, and he started gloating. Then my boss told him that he was actually eating my boss’s medium food. After they switched plates, the Mexican guy turned red, started sweating, and had to ask my boss to switch back.
(My boss had no problem eating the hot food; he just preferred the taste of medium.)
My brother is half white half Mexican and I am pretty much full white.
He decided to order his as hot as mine even though we all warned him not to.
His food tasted pretty good at about 3:30 the next morning
This makes it sound like you ate his shit…
It’s 2023 don’t judge me. ;)
I am fucking shameless when it comes to food sweats.
Bullets, big fat movie tears, damp sweaty towels around my shoulders… stop to take an exhaustedand spicy breathe… enter the second hand… I are now double fisting chicken pathia like a chungus level American baby does spaghetti. The wait staff are disgusted, the date left hours ago… But I am happier than I will ever be.
My god that’s a fucking funny picture and it’s damn true too. I love me some fucking spicy food.
I used to frequent a Szechuan noodle place. Those fucking noodles would melt my face off and give me lava shits 45 minutes later, but I couldn’t stay away.
No. Let them see you cry. Let them see you hiccup and snot all over yourself. Let them see the agony.
Then take another bite. Tell them it’s delicious. Because it is.
As an Indian dude, I don’t like food that is too spicy. It just masks all other flavour. What most restaurants would call medium spicy is what I usually prefer.
I fucking love spicy food and I loved seeing people suffer with the food I would make them eat. Meanwhile I was fine watching them suffer as I ate my food. Anyway I’m lonely now and will probably never experience this sort of social interaction ever again.
I wanna eat the real spicy food! In germany everything is watered down so n00bs can eat it🥲
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Too hot and wrong flavoured pepper for indian food
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Lol. You totally can. For me I like spice but also the subtle parts of curry flavour. like mint and cinnamon are spicey too in different ways, add those in with chillies and ginger and it gives you a well rounded Spice that isn’t just burn the mouth hot
Look for Chinese restaurants where the Chinese go eat.
Most regions in China eat very spicy, just ask the waiter for something extra spicy like the Chinese eat it and they’ll give you something amazing.
Where do you live in Germany? Maybe I can recommend something.
I recently had “very spicy” Chinese food. On scale of 1-10 it was 6 at best. ( I am Indian). If you are looking for 9 or higher look for Hyderabadi or Andhra Indian food.
Nah spent a year in India , best Indian spicy food ? London ;) I miss the green chillies as snacks though
I don’t understand how people do this, to be honest. Do you know how spicy food works? The receptor it triggers in your mouth is TRPV1, which does handle heat regulation and sensitivity, but it’s also a pain receptor. Like, selectively removing it to treat the pain caused by bone cancer kind of receptor.
The kind of heat that sets it off is heat above 109F/43C, in addition to things like scorpion venom. Presumably it comes through as heat. Everyone tells me it feels hot. I don’t get “heat.” I get what is clearly agony in one of the most innervated areas of the body, and science backed me up on this.
Y’all are addicted to licking the curling iron and I’m the weird one
You’re probably just sensitive to capsaicin. I love hot food, and it takes a lot for me to end up in agony like you described. But I’ve definitely been that guy at an Indian place where I’m sweating profusely while telling the staff the food is delicious.
Finding a hot sauce that tastes good/doesn’t taste like hot garbage is harder than actually eating food seasoned with it.
Before refridgeration was developed, food rotting was a major problem in the hot, humid tropics. The solution was to poison the food with spice - it would be somewhat unpleasant to eat, but would kill pests. I suppose over the years we got used to it.
Fun fact: English has words for four basic tastes (sweet, salt, sour and bitter). Indian languages have a fifth basic taste - chilly or spicy.
My mom, a wonderful lady in every other sense, was a terrible cook. The blandest of the bland. Unseasoned potatoes and overcooked meat was the norm. Even when she branched out to other things like stir fry and pizza, she still somehow managed to make them utterly flavorless.
I distinctly recall one day at school, somehow I ended up with a little too much pepper in my tomato soup. It was like my taste buds had finally come of age or something. I started regularly adding too much pepper to my tomato soup. Then Tobasco. Then, as a young adult I found a specialty hot sauce place in the mall. It was the second coming!
Now, I live in Korea, and wow they’re not afraid to spice it up here. I do get tired of the constant “Oh, the waygook (foreigner) can handle spicy food!” refrain though.
Some people go overboard with peppers that are all heat and no flavour; Those add nothing to the dish. Proper Thai or Indian with a mix of spice brings out the flavours, so its hot but also delicious. And it hits the mouth different. Like those hot pepper challenges arent food, they just burn all over lips mouth and throat, that should never a dining experience
I’m pretty sure they like it when you cry
"Success Raj! they weep like the removed of Bombay! we have made it well! Big high fives*
I mean, if it’s considered good manners to let a burp out in some places, thise could also been seen as a compliment to the chef perhaps?
As someone from a country that takes our spicy food seriously, at the very least there’s the sense of superiority from the “foreigner” being unable to take “a little bit of spice”
For Indians this has to be doubly so because they were annexed for their spices, or at least that’s the popular belief
The sweating means I’m enjoying it. I don’t want a curry unless it makes my nose start running.
Whoever says i like spicy food shall be reminded that indian food is alot spicyer than you might think🥵
If I’m getting spicy food I always say ‘white people spicy’. It always gets a good laugh and I usually get my food just right.
I ask for really hot, they look at my white skin and doubt me, then my indian friend has to vouch for me and say “No, he does actually want it hot” then they are like ah OK
Man, I’d kill for a lovely hot curry about now.
Whenever I eat spicy food my tongue stops working and all I can taste is bitter and pain
Skill issue.
Fun fact about spice tolerance. Many people think tolerance = resistance but that’s not the case. After a certain point, people who love spicy foods report the same levels of spiciness compared to those who don’t regularly eat it, it’s just that they are used to it and even like it. So something that is a 10/10 spicy is the same level of spicy for everyone, it’s just some masochists prefer it to be that way.
So when people say things like “oh that wasn’t that spicy” it still usually is spicy. Their personality just prefers it that way so it doesn’t bother them as much.
My jerk chicken isn’t hot enough unless I’m crying from both my eyes and my nose after 5 wings. Anything less and it’s just mild jerk wings.
I’m fairly certain that tolerance does mute the spiciness of foods. There are foods others struggle with that I hardly notice is even spicy.
It feels more like building a muscle than building a skill.
Ah, the superior version, sans horrible beard. Any how yes.
