I have this problem with Thai places on occasion. A lot of them do a 1-5 scale where 5 is like true spicy from a traditional Thai cuisine perspective, 3 is like spicy from a western cuisine perspective, and 1 is like barely spicy.
The ones that dont do this scale its really annoying to say please make it spicy, like no actually spicy spicy. And then you get it and its like a 2/5. One place I ordered it spicy spicy, not whatever the standard spicy is, and the chef actually came out after serving it. I loved it but I think he was attempting to make it punishingly spicy, but he was nowhere near that level for me.
If I ask for spicy I want it to make me sweat but I also still want to taste the food. That is a truly perfect level of spicy
im guessing you might be white. I found ethnic places will give me not very spicy if I ask for spicy but if Im with a friend of that ethnicity you get the real stuff.
Yeah but that is the beauty of the Thai 5-point scale. 1 is like whatever the spiciest thing you can get at a Taco Bell is. 5 is like “Grandma is cooking and she might just fuck around and put you in the hospital”
I have this problem with Thai places on occasion. A lot of them do a 1-5 scale where 5 is like true spicy from a traditional Thai cuisine perspective, 3 is like spicy from a western cuisine perspective, and 1 is like barely spicy.
The ones that dont do this scale its really annoying to say please make it spicy, like no actually spicy spicy. And then you get it and its like a 2/5. One place I ordered it spicy spicy, not whatever the standard spicy is, and the chef actually came out after serving it. I loved it but I think he was attempting to make it punishingly spicy, but he was nowhere near that level for me.
If I ask for spicy I want it to make me sweat but I also still want to taste the food. That is a truly perfect level of spicy
im guessing you might be white. I found ethnic places will give me not very spicy if I ask for spicy but if Im with a friend of that ethnicity you get the real stuff.
Yeah but that is the beauty of the Thai 5-point scale. 1 is like whatever the spiciest thing you can get at a Taco Bell is. 5 is like “Grandma is cooking and she might just fuck around and put you in the hospital”
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