Spiciest/Hottest Thai Food or any for that matter.

Vanity | 1/6/2015 | Vendome

[Vendome]

Okay. Doesn't fall under "Breaking News" but, I don't post articles very often.

So, I drop off my Alki friend so he can do some walk in/walk out bail thing at the Sheriffs Department.

I'm bored and spy a Thai restaurant across the street.

At first my thoughts were just about some delish lemongrass soup. So I walk in and order their lemongrass soup.

But, they offered a twist I hadn't been offered at othe Thai restaurants "You want regular or spicy?".

"Huh? Why I'll take spicy. I love spicy anything" I responded

Well, they tried to talk me out of it, saying most Americans can't handle it.

I laughed and said I'd eat anything and "Heck yeah, I want spicy. Make it hot as you want"

So they offered to make it and if I couldn't eat it, they'd replace it with something easier.

OMG!!! This was the hottest dang'd soup evuh!!!

Took me 45 minutes to finish it and I loved it!!!

Never noticed this place but, you can bet I'll be back.

Paid the check and they were all pretty chatty and not believing me when I said I loved it.

I was sweating but heck, that ain't ever stopped me and this was so awesome!

Now, I'm gonna wash it down with a diet coke.

[El Cid]

Thanks!

[Responsibility2nd]

Habaneros can be brutal.

[Vendome]

We’ll find out tomorrow. ..

LOL

[Vendome]

Yum Nam or sumpin...

[lurk]

That’s the way Thai food works. It blows your mouth off, your body goes through all kinds of stress reactions, and after a few minutes your lips feel like a dentist has numbed them.

And then you eat the next bite, and the next... It’s crack on a plate.

[Dr. Ursus]

Which one is the ghost chili?

[Portcall24]

Does anyone know where Sriracha is on the scale. I’ve started to enjoy that over Texas Pete.

[Vendome]

Oh, it was definitely Crack.

Even though I ordered the large, which is 7/11 Big Gulp size, I wanted more.

But, dinner will be served around 6 and I love tamales too.

[rabidralph]

If you like East Indian food, try to find a reliable restaurant and order something spicy off the menu. My favorite is Chicken Masala or just about any dish they make with chicken in it.

[Vendome]

There’s a place in Sunnyvale that has one of the best lunch buffets for Indian food.

Their buffet is as good as anything you’d order plated.

Clean, clean place and very attentive on service, even though they are buffet.

They’ll keep refilling your coke, tea and coffee until you leave. They don’t ask either.

You look away and wonder when the refill came.

[Responsibility2nd]

Naga Jolokia.

The Ghost Pepper.

[Fiji Hill]

There’s a place in Sunnyvale that has one of the best lunch buffets for Indian food.

Is that the Tumeric Restaurant?

[doorgunner69]

Local Safeway has started carrying “Mrs. Renfro’s” salsas. I am addicted to their Ghost pepper salsa. Delicious flavor and it will light up your mouth something fierce. I dump it on a hard boiked egg for breakfast and watch my wife cringe.

[Conservative Vet]

When I clicked on this thread, I would've never guessed I would actually know the place. I recently moved back to Arizona after twenty years in San Jose and I've frequented most of the Thai places in the South Bay. Fantazia is owned by Mon (anglicized as Monica) and her husband. I had known her for years when she was a waitress at Thai Pepper (now Thai Jasmine) in Santa Clara. The good thing about Fantazia is that it's small enough that the cooks are Thai (I believe her husband is the cook). Some of the bigger places hire Mexican cooks and the taste just isn't the same.

Blue Mango off of Coleman is one of the best Thai places. Thai Jasmine next to Santa Clara University is also good. Just ask for them to make the food "Thai Hot". When I would ask for it that way, I would usually still need the bowls of extra chile to spice it up the way I like it.

Adelita's Taqueria on Curtner and Leigh. They make awesome hot salsa and their carne asada torta (sandwich) is to die for.

I'm a bonafide chile head. Part of it is that I have roots going back four hundred years in New Mexico so I have a natural affinity for chiles and you can build up a tolerance over time. I used to struggle with habaneros but I've eaten three today. I also buy the ghost chiles at Sprouts here in Arizona and I can take it but only eat one per sitting so far. There is an even hotter chile called the Carolina Reaper but they're hard to find. I haven't had the flu since 1986 and I think my chile diet has something to do with it.The main thing I miss about the Bay Area are the restaurants. If you like spicy real Chinese food, I recommend Chile Palace (Hunan style) and South Legend (Szechuan style)--both are next to San Jose in Milpitas.

[Rebelbase]

My hair is soaking wet by the end of a spicy Thai meal.

[informavoracious]

Yes, it’s crack on a plate! When I eat Thai, I crave it for days afterward. Doesn’t matter what dish I get. I CRAVE it the next day and the next... I’d swear it’s laced with some addictive substance.

[antidisestablishment]

I always tell them I don’t want Thai hot for white people—I want the real thing. At my favorite Indian restaurant, the owner’s son told me he doesn’t even eat anything that hot. I said if you ain’t sweating; you ain’t eating right. ;)