Pad Thai is not a traditionally spicy dish, though. It’s a mild street food, so you have to smother it in toppers to get it hot. You’re way better off ordering a spicy curry and asking for a side of chili oil to raise the heat.
Drunken noodles all the way. I was incredibly disappointed trying a new thai place when the drunken noodles were weaker than your average pad thai. I mean I know I'm white but if you're gonna make it that weak at least ask me a spice level so I can say medium or something.
Ask them for a spice tray. Most Thai places will have chili oil, dried peppers, pickled Thai chiles, picked jalapeños, homemade sriracha paste, curry powder, etc. you can use as condiments.
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Thai food in Thailand is nowhere near as spicy as "Thai Spicy" or even "Hot" Thai food in the states, in my experience. Some places I went it approaches or slightly exceeds "Hot", but on the whole I think the spiciness of Thai food is way overblown.
In my experience the spiciness levels are 1, 2, and 3 meaning 1 - 3 dried or fresh birdseye (or similar) red chilis. It's pretty standardized and 3 is a hot but still pleasant level of spiciness. Thai people aren't competing to see who can light their asshole on fire, they just want good food.
Yeah I'm convinced that Spicelords are just sad literally tasteless people who can't enjoy food on a culinary level as much as they can on a competitive level. Anyone who likes it so spicy that you're mostly tasting spice, I'm not impressed bro. I can eat like that too. I just choose not to because I have actual taste. Don't say this "ohhh but I'm used to it so I taste the flavor too" no you don't, you taste a sad mangled version of the flavor through the spice. How many professional taste testers or culinary geniuses or famous chefs are scarfing down 5000 billion Scoville Ancient Ghost of The Demon King Peppers? Oh right, none of them. Fuck
I mean it's like getting a taste for bitter things - once you are used to it, the flavor is more than just "spice." I have four different bottles of hot sauce over 1M scoville, and I can easily tell them apart by taste and smell. It opens up an entirely new realm of flavor profiles once you can tolerate the spice and taste what comes with it.
For sure, for sure. I don't mean to disparage spice itself. I also judge people who refuse to have spicy food (unless it's for medical reasons ofc), and the classic bland food fan who thinks black peppercorn is spicy. I guess I just pretty much am judging everyone aside from the Goldilocks zone people who appreciate and value spice but also don't place it above everything else or turn it into something its not
it's not that, it's that i get a tummyache if i don't eat enough spicy food each day.
opposite of all y'all who get tummyaches if you eat any spicy food i know i'm weird. they have literally tried to study it in a lab.
i had some really fucky gastro stuff happen to me and my surgeon just happened to be plugged into research so i got to be a professional test subject
The spicy things I enjoy are Sriacha, Doritos dynamite Limon, Taco Bell mild but just for the flavor it's not really spicy at all. Some people would probably call me a bitch for not liking it super hot. I actually like Frank's red hot because it reminds me of the shitty hot sauce from grade school and it gives me nostalgia.
My biggest annoyance with spicy food is that I want the experience to stop when I finish eating. People say oh drink milk or whatever but that simply doesn't work well.
I don't travel, or do anything. No passport, never been on a plane. Thailand is the one place I want to go, and eat my way from one end to the other.
Maybe sometime in the future when the US sucks less (hopefully). I'm too ashamed to be from here right now to travel abroad.
If that's what's holding you back, don't worry. Thai people are very chill and kind. Also the economy is very dependent on tourism, so dealing with westerners is part of that - it's something people are used to for better and for worse. And, the US has not fucked Thailand over anywhere near as much as the surrounding countries (vietnam & cambodia, mostly, but even those folks are extremely gracious). People will appreciate you if you are kind, polite, and try to follow local customs.
That's nice and I'll keep it in mind. For now I'm avoiding airports in my own country.
That's how I feel about spicy food in Texas. "Texas Spicy Chili" anywhere else in the US is going to be way hotter than what is generally found in Texas.
I think something that complicates it is that spice tolerance increases as you eat more spicy things. Some people experience that 1 the same as others feel the 3 and vice versa.
If Thailand is as used to tourists as other comments have said, then it wouldn't surprise me if they do something similar to western restaurants with spice: over exagerate how spicy everything is so that tough guys can ask for something that will make them look tough without risking the staff needing to deal with some of them crying about it being too spicy (and maybe also feeling like they need to prove their toughness some other way).
So it wouldn't surprise me if the home cooking experience is more in line with what people would expect of Thai cuisine. And not because they want to blast their tastebuds and assholes, but because their tolerance is high from eating spicy food their whole lives and that's how much they need to get to a "pleasantly hot" level.
I’d like spicy better if the burn didn’t linger. Wasabi, I love. It blasts through you, burning away all mucous in your sinuses and then it’s gone. A little dry mouth, so you need a bite of ginger and then another blast of wasabi.
I don't have much tolerance for capsaicin, but I'm all about the isothiocyanate (the pungent compound in wasabi/horseradish/Chinese mustard/etc., and yes I had to look it up for this comment).
You should try dona sauce. It's just roasted jalapenos emulsified in oil, usually olive oil. Doesn't leave as fast but the roasting and oil tempers the trailing heat quite a bit.
I've never liked wasabi, which is strange because I've loved hot sauce since I was a child. I've since figured out that what I actually like is vinegar and the fact that there's peppers involved is just a pleasant bonus.
My father used to be all macho and say this kind of shit when we'd visit Mexican restaurants as a kid. Once place decided to teach him a lesson and honestly everyone involved thought it was hilarious including my father. And yes, they delivered on making him regret it.
i'm "macho" and say all this shit but like, for good reason. i get a tummyache if i don't have like 20,000 capsaicans a day
Serious question. How are your shits? Every time I start to build my tolerance, I hit a point where I’m paying for it on the back end and I have to scale back.
Monstruos and irregular. My gut is literally built with different organs
man im so jelly. anytime i get more adventurous than salt and maybe a teeny tiny bit of pepper my insides turn to lava and I spend at least a couple hours expelling hot fire from my anus afterwards. :(
I am the physical embodiment of vanilla, at least culinarily speaking lmao
dude, last time i went to the thai place, this was the instruction i gave them.
they gave me white grandma mild. i'm never going back. i eat ghost peppers raw.
Happened to me at an Indian restaurant. Owner asked me where I was from then told me she was giving me medium. They’re out of business now.
asking you where youre from is hilarious
ive been buying powdered ghost pepper instead of expensive hot sauce. saving tons of money
I don't like vinegar, and that's the predominant taste I get from most hot sauces. So, I also buy powdered ghost pepper. It's super handy, since my family has zero spice tolerance I can just add powder to whatever on my plate/bowl.
My friends and I all grow super hots and make our own dry spices as well. That doesn't stop me from buying hot sauces though because I enjoy the variety of flavors, but you can use the dry spice to add heat to many dishes that hot sauce would ruin/overpower.
I asked my local thai restaurant to "make it a little spicier than normal" because their normal is white suburban spicy and the chef gave me something so spicy it was inedible.
Like... Fuck you, you arent the only Thai restaraunt in town.
the chef gave me something so spicy it was inedibl
i want to go there
Honestly, learn how to say "spicy" in Thai. That way they dont give you "white people spicy"
the language learning center of my brain is stuck on greek right now. i'll end up saying something ridiculous
I mean, you could try that!
This is what you have to say to get mild spice in Japan.
And you still just get mildly spicy mayonnaise.
I've noticed at the last two places I've gotten wasabi with my meal from that the wasabi is weak. I remember in the past, if I ate some wasabi directly, I'd feel the place it first hit my tongue for like 20 seconds after. The last two times, I didn't detect any spice at all, even eating it directly.
Hope this is just a local trend and you're talking about weak spicy mayo or something.
I'm not talking about wasabi, wasabi is its own thing, its weird that we even use the same word to refer to both wasabi and chili peppers.
There's still sushi places that put absurd amounts of wasabi in the sushi.
I guess some people don't make chocolate covered birds eye chili's for snacks?
I'm intrigued by this.
This is the most the most fucking badass phrase i have ever seen.
Not the cuisine to make that joke with.
Once had a 7/10 spice at a thailand resteraunt. Holy shit that was spicy. 10/10 would have killed me
As a person that cannot handle even mild Thai food, I wonder if this person actually has any feeling in their mouth
Phet...Thai spicy all the way.
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