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What is the spiciest food you've ever had?

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Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I will start with the second spiciest. I was at a little place called "Thai Thanee" in Streamwood, Il. I had been there about a dozen times before and the waiter recognized me. Every time I go I always order the food extra spicy. I specifically ask them NOT to make it like they normally do for a white man. I ask them to make it as hot as possible, then to make it hotter. I also ask for the hottest peppers they have on the side and the hottest hot sauce that they have, so I can further enhance my food. The hottest time I ever got food from them I was taking my father out to lunch. We had Duck Noodle Soup to start, and then I had Penang Curry, and he ate something mild (I think it was Pad Thai.) The food was frickin awesome. Upon my first taste of the curry I got the hiccups and nearly started to gag because of the potency of the capsaicin. I ate all my food and then followed it up with some delicious lychee ice cream.

The spiciest food that I've ever had the privlidge to eat was the "extra spicy" chili that a friend from work made for out pot luck about 5 or 6 months ago. It took me nearly 2 hours just to eat 2 cereal bowl sized bowls of it. This chili was loaded with several pounds of the following mix of peppers: Red Savina, Naga Jolokia, Thai Dragon Chili, Thai Bird's Eye Chili, and Scotch Bonnet, as well as the much milder (by comparison) Serrano and jalapeño. Every bite of this chili packed more flavor than all of the other chilli's I've ever tasted in my life combined. I was sweating and my mouth was burning after just 1 taste. But it was so good I kept going until I could eat no more. The delightful fumes from the chili were enough to water my eyes. I ate many many Tums that evening.

I have eaten at many of the different Thai and Indian restaurants in the NW suburbs of the Chicago area. I have eaten dinner at Indian friends houses and taken extra helpings of their favorite hot sauces. I have NEVER come across anything too spicy to eat. I also really love creole food. When I went to New Orleans I had some pretty hot Gumbo and Jambalaya, though the hottest of the hot over there doesn't even come close to comparing to most Thai food that I've had.

Mmmmm food! Now I'm hungry... ARRRRGH!

Have you had Thai Aree? The owner will make you some SUPER SUPER hot food if you want it. They grown their own peppers and they are very hot to say the least.
 
Walker's Jerk sauce (brushed onto some baked chicken--yeah, my dad was ghetto at one time when it came to cooking). Undiluted.

Don't remember if this was brought to us from Jamaica (Jamaican friends), or the Walker's that you can buy within the states nowadays.

I could see through time--but it was also the tastiest damn thing I've ever had.
 
When I lived in Guam, there was a fellow at the place I worked, who made the best damn finadene sauce I've ever had. They have these tiny little peppers over there, affectionately referred to as "boonie peppers", that are about as big around as a pencil, and about an inch or so long......and pack enough wallop to make your eyeballs sweat! 😉

Anyways, this guy would make the finadene sauce, usually when we were having a party, and we'd grill some fish, then dip the fish meat into the sauce and eat it (God, do I miss Guam cuisene!!). I swear, this stuff was so hot, that it made everything sweat! To the point where your hair would suddenly develop sweat glands, just so it could sweat!! Man, it was so hot..... but so good, that you didn't want to stop eating it!!! Bunch of damn sado-masochists, standing around eating fish with finadene sauce on it! :laugh:

Unfortunately, while my mouth and gut can still take the heat, I seem to have misplaced my asbestos butthole. Can't even hardly do jalepenos nowadays, without suffering horribly the next day! 🙁
 
A friend and I ate a couple of these little red peppers that came in a dish at a Szechuan restaurant once. I was pouring the pitcher of water down my mouth it was so hot.
 
Originally posted by: five40
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I will start with the second spiciest. I was at a little place called "Thai Thanee" in Streamwood, Il. I had been there about a dozen times before and the waiter recognized me. Every time I go I always order the food extra spicy. I specifically ask them NOT to make it like they normally do for a white man. I ask them to make it as hot as possible, then to make it hotter. I also ask for the hottest peppers they have on the side and the hottest hot sauce that they have, so I can further enhance my food. The hottest time I ever got food from them I was taking my father out to lunch. We had Duck Noodle Soup to start, and then I had Penang Curry, and he ate something mild (I think it was Pad Thai.) The food was frickin awesome. Upon my first taste of the curry I got the hiccups and nearly started to gag because of the potency of the capsaicin. I ate all my food and then followed it up with some delicious lychee ice cream.

The spiciest food that I've ever had the privlidge to eat was the "extra spicy" chili that a friend from work made for out pot luck about 5 or 6 months ago. It took me nearly 2 hours just to eat 2 cereal bowl sized bowls of it. This chili was loaded with several pounds of the following mix of peppers: Red Savina, Naga Jolokia, Thai Dragon Chili, Thai Bird's Eye Chili, and Scotch Bonnet, as well as the much milder (by comparison) Serrano and jalapeño. Every bite of this chili packed more flavor than all of the other chilli's I've ever tasted in my life combined. I was sweating and my mouth was burning after just 1 taste. But it was so good I kept going until I could eat no more. The delightful fumes from the chili were enough to water my eyes. I ate many many Tums that evening.

I have eaten at many of the different Thai and Indian restaurants in the NW suburbs of the Chicago area. I have eaten dinner at Indian friends houses and taken extra helpings of their favorite hot sauces. I have NEVER come across anything too spicy to eat. I also really love creole food. When I went to New Orleans I had some pretty hot Gumbo and Jambalaya, though the hottest of the hot over there doesn't even come close to comparing to most Thai food that I've had.

Mmmmm food! Now I'm hungry... ARRRRGH!

Have you had Thai Aree? The owner will make you some SUPER SUPER hot food if you want it. They grown their own peppers and they are very hot to say the least.


The guy that made the chili grew his own peppers too ...


Unfortunatly I have never been there (or even heard of it.) I rarely venture into the city .... and when I do, I take Metra to the loop and rarely stray beyond 1 or 2 miles from Union Station. Slowly, over the course of my life, I've been migrating away from the city.

I used to live in Des Plaines until I was about 16. It was 2 miles from O'Hare. I moved to Wheeling, which is about 10 miles north of there. Then I moved to Screamwood, which wasn't north, but instead it was more than 10 miles west of O'Hare. And now I'm all the way out in Wauconda ... I love it up there, though it can be quite a drive to get anywhere ....

The review from Centerstage sounds VERY attractive 🙂
http://centerstage.net/restaurants/thai-aree.html

Perhaps I should add it to the list of destinations I must visit 🙂
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: five40
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I will start with the second spiciest. I was at a little place called "Thai Thanee" in Streamwood, Il. I had been there about a dozen times before and the waiter recognized me. Every time I go I always order the food extra spicy. I specifically ask them NOT to make it like they normally do for a white man. I ask them to make it as hot as possible, then to make it hotter. I also ask for the hottest peppers they have on the side and the hottest hot sauce that they have, so I can further enhance my food. The hottest time I ever got food from them I was taking my father out to lunch. We had Duck Noodle Soup to start, and then I had Penang Curry, and he ate something mild (I think it was Pad Thai.) The food was frickin awesome. Upon my first taste of the curry I got the hiccups and nearly started to gag because of the potency of the capsaicin. I ate all my food and then followed it up with some delicious lychee ice cream.

The spiciest food that I've ever had the privlidge to eat was the "extra spicy" chili that a friend from work made for out pot luck about 5 or 6 months ago. It took me nearly 2 hours just to eat 2 cereal bowl sized bowls of it. This chili was loaded with several pounds of the following mix of peppers: Red Savina, Naga Jolokia, Thai Dragon Chili, Thai Bird's Eye Chili, and Scotch Bonnet, as well as the much milder (by comparison) Serrano and jalapeño. Every bite of this chili packed more flavor than all of the other chilli's I've ever tasted in my life combined. I was sweating and my mouth was burning after just 1 taste. But it was so good I kept going until I could eat no more. The delightful fumes from the chili were enough to water my eyes. I ate many many Tums that evening.

I have eaten at many of the different Thai and Indian restaurants in the NW suburbs of the Chicago area. I have eaten dinner at Indian friends houses and taken extra helpings of their favorite hot sauces. I have NEVER come across anything too spicy to eat. I also really love creole food. When I went to New Orleans I had some pretty hot Gumbo and Jambalaya, though the hottest of the hot over there doesn't even come close to comparing to most Thai food that I've had.

Mmmmm food! Now I'm hungry... ARRRRGH!

Have you had Thai Aree? The owner will make you some SUPER SUPER hot food if you want it. They grown their own peppers and they are very hot to say the least.


The guy that made the chili grew his own peppers too ...


Unfortunatly I have never been there (or even heard of it.) I rarely venture into the city .... and when I do, I take Metra to the loop and rarely stray beyond 1 or 2 miles from Union Station. Slowly, over the course of my life, I've been migrating away from the city.

I used to live in Des Plaines until I was about 16. It was 2 miles from O'Hare. I moved to Wheeling, which is about 10 miles north of there. Then I moved to Screamwood, which wasn't north, but instead it was more than 10 miles west of O'Hare. And now I'm all the way out in Wauconda ... I love it up there, though it can be quite a drive to get anywhere ....

The review from Centerstage sounds VERY attractive 🙂
http://centerstage.net/restaurants/thai-aree.html

Perhaps I should add it to the list of destinations I must visit 🙂

Very cool. I've lived in Naperville pretty much my whole life.

For sure you should go to Thai Aree. It's not a "nice" place as in glorious location or nice inside. It's a run down building with the same style inside however the food is amazing. And like I said it's super damn hot.
 
Originally posted by: five40
Very cool. I've lived in Naperville pretty much my whole life.

For sure you should go to Thai Aree. It's not a "nice" place as in glorious location or nice inside. It's a run down building with the same style inside however the food is amazing. And like I said it's super damn hot.

sounds like my kind of place.
I don't care about places that try to get all flashy and fancy and spend too much on decorations. I just want delicious food.

Naperville's a nice area. One of my roomate's in College was from Naperville. I haven't talked to the guy in about 6 or 7 years though ....
 
I once had some chicken wings that were dipped in Mad Dog hot sauce. They were so hot that you needed to sign a waiver to eat them, AND they would give you a $20 gift certificate if you could finish the whole plate. I only knew one guy who actually finished the plate!

They were beyond hot, and were downright painful to eat. It wasn't just your mouth and lips that burned... this stuff would even burn your fingers! Total insanity.
 
Some chili with YEOW hot sauce.

It was so hot, but so good. I was dripping with sweat like I was in 130 heat. I had to be careful or I'd drip in my bowl it was that profuse.
 
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