On 2016-07-16 11:07 AM, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:13:14 -0400, Gary > wrote:
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>> I'd like to try Thai food sometime because I understand it's basically
>> hot food. Never had any though....yet.
>
> I've heard that, but never experienced a truly hot dish so they must
> tone it down for white people. I think you'll like it when you get to
> try it. Pad Thai is a famous noodle dish, but if you like meat and
> you like salad - try Thai Beef Salad sometime. It's addictive. I'm a
> big fan of any Thai eggplant dish too. I may not know what the dish
> is, but I know I'll like it if it contains eggplant.

Thai restaurants around here offer a range of heat on most of their
dishes 1 to 5 chili (symbols). The one we used to go to seemed to be hit
and miss. On one occasion we ordered something quite hot that was fairly
mild, while a dish we had ordered mild was quite hot. We tried a new
Thai restaurant a few months ago and, not being sure of their heat
levels, I ordered something medium. I liked the nice nip to it and would
not have wanted it much hotter and said that level 3 seemed to be the
way to go foe me. Then my son pointed out that I had asked for it medium
hot, and on their scale medium hot is only 2.

I once went to a Spanish restaurant with a guy from India. We ordered
paella and he asked for some hot sauce to go with it and explained that
he was from India and he liked his food spicy hot. When the waiter
brought a bowl of hot sauce and some crackers. I tried some. Holy cow.
It was hot. He said that it might be hot for me but again said he was
from India and is used to hot spice, that it would not be as hot for
him. Then he tried some..... " Oh golly, that is very hot".
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