Posted on 06/24/2025 11:02:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
So apparently Bengal Village in East London has the "hottest curry in London." It features 72 types of chilis, including the Carolina Reaper, scotch bonnet, bird's eye, naga and snake chilis, so it's pretty spicy stuff.
They do a challenge with this dish -- a challenge which you have to sign a waiver to attempt. And if you can't tell by this next video, it's pretty intense.
Watch:
London’s hottest curry makes a man leave the restaurant and think about what he just ate @Bengal_Village pic.twitter.com/SvNWtZOOUq— UB1UB2 West London (Southall) (@UB1UB2) June 19, 2025
I feel bad for the guy, but this is amazing!! The owner even brought him a glass of mango lassi!
Apparently in the past a diner has been hospitalized after taking the challenge, and Bengal Village has seen several similar instances to the one above.
Man, now I want to go to East London -- not to try the challenge, of course, but to witness people try it!
In my heat seeking chili-head younger years I thought hotter was better.
In my more elder years and not liking to cry while on the toilet the next day, I prefer the lower end of the heat spectrum.
Looks like he is Thai. They are extremely proud of their ability to eat super Hot Foods. I don’t think he had any clue what he was actually dealing with...
Love the gas mask!
Never had curry, and don’t want any. I’ve looked up Indian recipes, and they all look like something that’s been regurgitated. No thankee.
When your dish is delivered by a guy wearing hazmat gear it might be good to re think things
The mild curries are fine, it’s the really hot ones that will make you want to drink Lake Superior...........
“Love the gas mask!”
Wife cooks, I clean. She often has a little dish of home made Nuoc Cham. I have to hold my breath as I rinse out the dish in the sink.
I haven’t had curry that hot, but I ate some Nashville hot chicken where I had to sign a waiver.
The problem for me is not the heat, but the bitterness of the capsaicin.
I guess he was never in a Mex or Indian restaurant
Around here, they often give a white person extra mild, no matter how hot you order. Frustrating.
“In my heat seeking chili-head younger years I thought hotter was better.”
They should require a license to grow reapers.
I used to could eat Jalapenos like candy in my younger days. But not any more..................
Thai food often goes in hot, but exits without the heat. Indian "hot" stays that way end to end. Much of it is "oily", so the hot part never gets digested.
Mango lassi is a good fire extinguisher.
“I’ve looked up Indian recipes, and they all look like something that’s been regurgitated. “
Have you seen youtubes of their street food? It will really send you to the hospital.
“I haven’t had curry that hot, but I ate some Nashville hot chicken where I had to sign a waiver.”
I was born and raised in Nashville and I never heard of ‘Nashville Hot’ till I came to Colorado. Just a marketing tool for food drenched in red pepper.
I went to a Thai restaurant with a co-worker who grew up in Thailand. She helped fix the no hot stuff for the white guy for me. It was delightful and not a problem. Future visits didn't require an "escort" to get the good stuff.
My favorite restaurant in the San Diego area was "Siamese Basil" in Encinitas (Highway 101). The green curry with chicken has pools of the chili oil floating in droplets over the coconut curry base. The green chilis were cooked to a tender level. The chicken was tender and flavorful.
I love hot food; but there’s a point where it has no flavor, just heat.
The hottest food I have had was an extreme spiced chicken-coconut curry that tasted incredible for five to seven seconds before becoming the hottest dang thing I had ever experienced.
It took me over two hours to eat half of it. My head was completely red, snot draining like crazy, but I could not let the beautiful, petite waitress beat me, when I told her, over her strong warnings, to bring it the way she eats it.
It was an amazing experience that let me later eat the true hottest candies you could buy with such a name. They were not as bad as what that experience was, at that restaurant, but that meal had permanently changed my tolerance.
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