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spicy food
Feb. 16th, 2004 03:57 pmToday was the first time I had too-spicy food since the time I underestimated wasabi.
A lot of Thai restaurants will offer you a choice of spiciness, say from 0 to 4, and I usually go with the 3--I can handle the 4, but I don't really enjoy it more. Today at a place I'd never been to before I was told their spiciness scale ranges from 1 to 10. Okay, I thought, if their ten is somewhere else's four, multiply by 3/4, round down for safety, and I ordered a 7.
Later, after some coughing, some headshaking, and a little bit of weeping, I concluded that in fact, their four is everybody else's four. Their scale just goes a lot higher.
A lot of Thai restaurants will offer you a choice of spiciness, say from 0 to 4, and I usually go with the 3--I can handle the 4, but I don't really enjoy it more. Today at a place I'd never been to before I was told their spiciness scale ranges from 1 to 10. Okay, I thought, if their ten is somewhere else's four, multiply by 3/4, round down for safety, and I ordered a 7.
Later, after some coughing, some headshaking, and a little bit of weeping, I concluded that in fact, their four is everybody else's four. Their scale just goes a lot higher.
