All I'm saying is when I order a goddamn extra spicy kimchi beef soon tofu combo I don't expect to be harassed with "ok how bout mild?".
sriracah tastes like water...not very spicy at all....basic test is sriracha..
Cause you can't.
My old boss made "super spicy" chip dip. I tried it. It's not even as hot as a mild Vietnamese spicy noodle bowl.
also what is standard American fare?
It's because a lot of people think they can handle spicy food but they can't, and so they order the spiciest thing on the menu and then complain because it was too spicy for them. My friend used to run a Sichuan restaurant, and he'd use chili flesh and seeds by the handful, cooking only in chili oil, and sprinkling dried chili on the top of everything. If you asked nicely to make it not spicy, he'd maybe cook with regular oil...if it was a good day. Despite his food being on the edge of edibility spiciness-wise, it was still really, really nice.Anyone else have this problem? Roll into an Asian restaurant(it happens across the various ethnic types of restaurants) order the spiciest thing on the menu and spend more time arguing with the waitress over the level of spicy you want, because they think you can't handle anything over mild, than it takes to get your food. Not to mention I have yet to eat a single thing at any Asian restaurant that can hang with some of the spicy American or Mexican food I have had. Hell a single habanero has most their dishes beat by a long shot. So what the hell is the deal?
And Kiwi hot is for pussies. Seriously. I just bought and used a jar of vindaloo curry sauce two days ago. Biggest mistake I ever made. I have made spicier scrambled eggs just by adding pepper.At my local Indian place if you ask for 'hot' they ask if you want 'Indian hot' or 'Kiwi hot'.
Some things just taste better with so much chili your eyes water. Like Chinese beef noodles. They're nice without chili, but they're so much nicer with.Why would you want to handle mouth-burning? I've never found myself going "well this hamburger's good, but it would be way better if it could just sear my sinus cavities and cause my eyes to leak fluid like I've been pepper sprayed."
That's because most of you people can't handle it. The spiciest thing I've ever had was in Korea. I've eaten Habaneros and apocalypse wings. Those are ridiculously spicy sure, but man compared to this sauce it was nothing.
It was a place that served spicy rice cakes and had a spice level from 1-7. I thought I could take on level 7 without much problems when the waitress heavily insisted I don't do it. I then settled on a 4 while she brought me a small cup of level 7. I took a tiny bit and put it on my tongue to try it out. I was in pain for the next 40 minutes.
Also, a ton of the Americanized food simply has the spiciness level toned down heavily. When I went out to Korean restaurants with friends, one dude in particular could barely try one type of stew because it was too spicy, when I simply didn't taste anything spicy at all.
The hottest sauces in the world come from the United States of America. The hottest pepper ever grown, a hybrid ghost pepper, was engineered in the USA. To say we lack spice in our food is incredibly ignorant, especially considering our neighbors to the South. Spicy food is quite easy to find in the USA, especially now a days.
Stereotypically? Meat and a starch, pretty plain. Steak and a baked potato. Burgers, fries, hotdogs, fast food, etc. Obviously it's not true, and most American diets vary heavily from the stereotype, but that's just what it is, a stereotype.
I like to taste flavour in my food, not show some randon Asian strangers how big my spicy dick is.
Spicy food lovers make me want to wretch.
Also, don't forget that the chili pepper is a New World vegetable. Were it not for the Americas, the Indians and Asians would have no spiciness at all in their diet.
But it is funny to watch them try to drink. They can't handle it.
any time an Asian tells me their food's spicer than what we got. I offer to take them to the soul food place around the way and order us the Suicide wings. I dunno what the fuck they make the sauce with, but it's about as hot as eating a straight Habanero.
basic test is sriracha..
My buddy is from China and we were drinking some Chinese wine. He told me white people can't handle it. Two 1/2 hrs later I was explaining to his wife why the sink smelled like puke and he was passed out on the sofa. I was eating delicious pork buns, watching CSI and continuing the process of finishing the second bottle of Chinese wine we had opened.
This other time I was drinking with a sushi chef, pouring him shots out of my bottles of soju. Guy got so drunk he had to call his wife to come in and close up the shop and drive him home lol. Great sushi and he only charged me for the booze.