What’s the spiciest thing you’ve ever eaten?

Bretrick said:
Whilst in Malaysia, at a Restaurant, I ordered Rogan Josh.
The waiter tried to talk me out of it saying it was too hot for Westerners.
Of course, we do silly things sometimes.
I ordered it, suffered badly eating it and suffered worse the next morning
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Yes, I was about to say Malaysian curry but I have learnt to love it.
Tom Yum soup from Thailand is on the same level. It numbs the lips.
 

Bretrick said:
Whilst in Malaysia, at a Restaurant, I ordered Rogan Josh.
The waiter tried to talk me out of it saying it was too hot for Westerners.
Of course, we do silly things sometimes.
I ordered it, suffered badly eating it and suffered worse the next morning
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Rogan Josh is not hot, that's the staple diet of millions of Brits on a Friday or Saturday night after a night at the pub.. ( not me because I can't eat spicy things)... however if you'd have said Phall ..now that is something that Indian waiters warn Westerners against ..
 
hollydolly said:
Rogan Josh is not hot, that's the staple diet of millions of Brits on a Friday or Saturday night after a night at the pub.. ( not me because I can't eat spicy things)... however if you'd have said Phall ..now that is something that Indian waiters warn Westerners against ..
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It had chilies in so it was hot for me 25 years ago 😓
 
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Years ago, in my twenties, I won a pair of tickets to eat at an Indian buffet. I took my sister with me. Everything looked scrumptious. I filled my plate, eagerly salivating, and innocently thinking everything would taste good. Well, I happened to pick the spiciest and hottest food on my plate to eat first. Don't know what the name of it was, but it literally burned my mouth and ruined the whole dinner for me. I was hopping around and pointing at my mouth. No amount of water helped. Had to leave right away, and my sister didn't have a chance to take one bite after she saw my pain.

I hear that having something sweet with a spicy meal helps, but there was nothing sweet in that meal! That's why I shun Indian restaurants. Don't want a repeat performance. :)
 
My first Mother in Law's curried anything. She was a Guyanese citizen of East Indian heritage. It was so hot i really couldn't appreciate the flavors. For a couple of years I'd been having my first DH's curry, which was spicy but you could distinguish the flavors of the ingredients.
 
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palides2021 said:
Years ago, in my twenties, I won a pair of tickets to eat at an Indian buffet. I took my sister with me. Everything looked scrumptious. I filled my plate, eagerly salivating, and innocently thinking everything would taste good. Well, I happened to pick the spiciest and hottest food on my plate to eat first. Don't know what the name of it was, but it literally burned my mouth and ruined the whole dinner for me. I was hopping around and pointing at my mouth. No amount of water helped. Had to leave right away, and my sister didn't have a chance to take one bite after she saw my pain.

I hear that having something sweet with a spicy meal helps, but there was nothing sweet in that meal! That's why I shun Indian restaurants. Don't want a repeat performance. :)
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Actually milk does more to counter act spices effects on mouth and throat, water can actually aggravate it.
 
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Spiciest soup was in Tijuana, MX. I ordered soup and also salsa in a restaurant where they spoke very little english. They brought the salsa that was green. I never had green salsa before so I thought it was the soup. I ate most of the bowl by they time they brought the soup!
 
I have no idea what kind of pepper it was, but on my first day in India, I had a plate of tempura vegetables in front of me and picked up what I thought was a string bean. It wasn't. It was a nuclear-powered instrument of mass mucous membrane destruction. One bite and my head almost exploded. My eyes were gushing, my nose was running, I couldn't breathe. I managed to gasp "YOGURT! YOGURT!" That helped a bit but I had a sore mouth for days.

I made sure from then on that I was extremely sure of what I had before I bit into it.

I don't think I've even eaten anything that hurt as bad as that pepper did.
 
Michael Z said:
Spiciest soup was in Tijuana, MX. I ordered soup and also salsa in a restaurant where they spoke very little english. They brought the salsa that was green. I never had green salsa before so I thought it was the soup. I ate most of the bowl, by they time they brought the soup!
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Oh, no! I love salsa verde (green salsa) but only the medium hot variety. First had it in Santa Fe in 1974-75. Huevos Ranchero for beakfast.
 
palides2021 said:
Years ago, in my twenties, I won a pair of tickets to eat at an Indian buffet. I took my sister with me. Everything looked scrumptious. I filled my plate, eagerly salivating, and innocently thinking everything would taste good. Well, I happened to pick the spiciest and hottest food on my plate to eat first. Don't know what the name of it was, but it literally burned my mouth and ruined the whole dinner for me. I was hopping around and pointing at my mouth. No amount of water helped. Had to leave right away, and my sister didn't have a chance to take one bite after she saw my pain.

I hear that having something sweet with a spicy meal helps, but there was nothing sweet in that meal! That's why I shun Indian restaurants. Don't want a repeat performance. :)
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Milk and yoghurt helps with curry burns. Most Indian dishes are served with raita. made with cucumber and yoghurt and eaten with the meal.
 
Shero said:
Milk and yoghurt helps with curry burns. Most Indian dishes are served with raita. made with cucumber and yoghurt and eaten with the meal.
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I like to cook curries at home. I use tinned curry pastes of various degrees of hotness - vindaloo, madrass, rogan josh, korma, tikka massala etc. I serve with boiled rice in the bottom of the bowl then the curry on top. I then add lots of sambals I make myself - chopped tomato and onion, cucumber in yoghurt, sliced bananas, mango chutney, shredded coconut and chopped peanuts. This way you can tolerate the hottest of curries and still enjoy all of the flavours.

The added benefit is that it slides through the gut in no time, cleansing as it goes.
 
Warrigal said:
I like to cook curries at home. I use tinned curry pastes of various degrees of hotness - vindaloo, madrass, rogan josh, korma, tikka massala etc. I serve with boiled rice in the bottom of the bowl then the curry on top. I then add lots of sambals I make myself - chopped tomato and onion, cucumber in yoghurt, sliced bananas, mango chutney, shredded coconut and chopped peanuts. This way you can tolerate the hottest of curries and still enjoy all of the flavours.

The added benefit is that it slides through the gut in no time, cleansing as it goes.
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Great idea, in that way, you get the best advantage!
 
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