Now that I spend most of my work days in Monterey, where the food is good, but shall we say mild, I find myself making up for lost time on the weekends.
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Hagfish fancier v4.02.01replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@[email protected] spicy take
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Hagfish fancier v4.02.01 last edited by
@pagrus I’d qualify it by saying that’s for cuisines that are supposed to be spicy. dishes that are toned down are just very annoying and I’d rather not eat them
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Hagfish fancier v4.02.01replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@[email protected] I get it, spicy by default is normal here too, even if it's just throwing crushed red pepper in to things. the one exception might be the flamin hot mountain dew I tried, I don't think the world is ready
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Hagfish fancier v4.02.01 last edited by [email protected]
@pagrus supper and breakfast and 3am food (too late for supper? But still a meal) in Malaysia is spicy by default
I need that
Not just one thing but like everything
I’m glad I can get spicy stuff here but not the same
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@skinnylatte @pagrus there's a Thai place I like close to my home. They have one or two curries on their menu and refuse to change their spiciness "because it changes the flavor too much". Your take made me think of them
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@eco_amandine @pagrus legit!
feels equivalent to making a donut with no sugar. Or flour.
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@Affekt someone got sued in San Jose for damaging a customer’s vocal cords or something. After she insisted on Thai spicy
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@mikemccabe Zen Yai and Sai Jai Thai
I absolutely dislike Ler Ros coz I find the food super toned down and it makes me extra mad coz I know they can make proper food (they used to own another spot that was great..)
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@skinnylatte ugg, people can be such jackasses. Making other people responsible for their poor choices. Like, take a small taste? But I guess if they're insisting on high spice level they assumed they could tolerate it.
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Hagfish fancier v4.02.01replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] there is this impulse that some people have to modify menu items no matter what, often even before trying something for the first time. we use to get them at my shop, I'm like if you think you need to tweak something before you even try it, why are you even here?
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Hagfish fancier v4.02.01 last edited by
@pagrus @eco_amandine the entire premise of /r/ididnthaveeggs
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Claire, The Ultimate Worrierreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I like my food to be fairly spicy and for awhile I was working to up my spice tolerance but I've never been able to get even close to tolerating Thai spicy
how cultures that like spice manage to reach the point where that is just average food that average people eat is extremely impressive to me
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@waitworry easy, we eat chillies for fun
I’ve been doing that since I was 3 or 4
Food was just food, not ‘spicy food’ and there was not toned down version for kids or ‘introducing kids to spicy food’
Literally just ‘open your mouth and eat a Birds Eye chilli for fun and games’
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@waitworry of course there are people with no spice tolerance too but those people are regarded with some curiosity
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Claire, The Ultimate Worrierreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte that's what I've always particularly wondered about is the children
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@waitworry might have changed now but that’s how my wife and I grew up
Might also depend on one’s cultural background. Many Chinese families may not really eat super spicy but mine did. I was surprised to meet Cantonese people who lived their entire lives in Malaysia but never ate anything slightly spicy. It was totally different to my food upbringing where everyone loved chilli and we made our own special chilli sauces
