What's the spiciest?!?!
What's the spiciest?!?
OK there's a Vindaloo, then Phal in Indian cuisine. In Chinese cookery, you've got General Tso's Chicken and Mexican food, there's the habe?ero pepper, a pepper so hot you have to wear plastic gloves when you cut it. What's the spiciest dish you've ever tried and where did you try it?
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About 20 years ago I accepted a drunken bet that I couldn't eat a Chicken Phal, my god it was hot and I made the mistake of asking for water which just made it worse but I did eat it all and paid the price for succeeding with a unforgetable couple of visits to the loo the next day!
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Tandoori Parlour, Thundersley, Essex, England
some time in the mid 80's
i would say buffalo style chicken tenders off appetizer at dennys
I ate a whole habanero chile back in culinary school. Yeah, that was stupid.
chile Guajillo in méxico
scotch bonnet (used in west indian cooking)
Anything with that in it
mutton/chicken curry
jerked chicken, pork, fish etc
Pickled birds eye chilli in Mexico, I nearly wept!
Tom yam soup in a Thai restaurant. I once had too much wasabi with my sushi in a Japanese restaurant. Its not spicy at all but I had difficult breathing.
I got a chicken dish with a red chile sauce at a Latina restaurant in Orlando Florida some years back (before the many hurricanes) and it was so hot I couldn't eat it.
Now, mind you, I like it hot and don't bother with the gloves when chopping chiles and enjoy eating the peppers whenever they are in a dish like Schezuan.
But this was like a puree of Red Jamaican habaneros and I couldn't take more than a few bites. I had the feeling the chef was having a grand time in the kitchen laughing at me since I had ordered it "extra spicy".
Don't know if the restaurant is still there after the hurricanes, but it was called the El Niagara and the going joke I made about it was that one needed the Niagara Falls to put out the flames.
I'd like another go at it if they still serve it since as the years pass my heat tolerance for spicy food grows ever hotter.
I'm thinking the restaurant was around Leu Gardens near a Vietnamese restaurant.
I wonder if anyone knows of it or if it is still there?
I see the internet shows the address as being 1336 Orange Avenue in Winter Park.
It was Chicken Palak at an indian restaurant. Actually, my husband ordered it for himself and probably asked the waiter to tell the cook to try to kill him with heat! (I was talking to my mom when he ordered.) He told me to have a taste (he wasn't sweating yet), so I did. Shoot, I just about fell out of my chair and couldn't even taste my Chicken Curry. The cook didn't kill him, but I sure wanted to, lol!
I eat all types of hot and spicy food. I eat jalepeno's, chile's, habeneros and anything else spicy. I love them all. I can't say exactly what the hottest dish I've eaten, but I can say that Thai and Indian food is typically the hottest.
Go to a Thai restaurant and ask them to make the food extra spicy and see if you can handle it. Probably not, but you might be able to handle it at most other ethnic restaurants. One reason Thai is so hot is because of the combination of spices mixed with ginger. Ginger brings out the heat in other foods.
I used to work at a place that made thier own Jerk Sauce (Jamaican Jerk). They would start by finely dicing an entire 10lb case of habeneros! Some vineagar and lime juice, garlic, water, a case of raw spinach and some secrets. About 3 gallons in a stock pot boiling and reduce by 50-60
%. they would par-bake wings then fry them crispy and toss them in the sauce. It was so hot that most people would want to die after 1-2. But we would sell dozens of orders a week!! People would come from all over for them! I used to make all my employees try little pieces of the peppers so that they all knew how hot they were. It never hurt anyone and it was great fun. I'd do it right along with them. They really do taste like a bell pepper! For about 1.5 seconds.
I also tried on a whim one time a hot sauce called La Bomb. 3Million Scoville!. After a few beers and a flight of great tequila I put a drop about the size of the tip of a pencil on my finger. I stuck the finger in my mouth and it tasted horrible (like chewing tabacco spit) for about 2.5 seconds. Them my head blew up. I turned into a snot fountain for half an hour. I couldn't see, I had runny mucus dripping from my nose faster than I could blow it out or wipe it off. It seeped through my nose and into my eyes, I couldn't stop coughing. Have you ever seen Dumb and Dumber when they eat the peppers in the diner? It was sort of like that but no one died. It was hallarious afterword!
i had moroccan spicy sausages with hot harissa sauce - it was very hot but very nice. i had them at the house of a moroccan lady living in London.
I really enjoy spicy food, (vindaloo), but the hottest food i have eaten is a pizza from a local pizzarea with 'chilli's' on, i felt like a cartoon character with steam coming out of my ears...... not nice!