It's like being Somali and being like _oh yea we eat lots if spice!_ and then going to an Ethiopian restaurant for the first time. It really does feel like a murder attempt lmfao
Lol funny story you told, im israeli and i went to an Ethiopian restaurant and it was delicious but so many new flavors (and it was run by an Ethiopian staff crew)!
I went to my local Thai restaurant with a German friend. When he asked for Thai hot, two waiters AND the chef came to check if he was sure that's what he meant and explain just how hot it was. He just laughed, had to explain that he'd lived in Thailand for a few years. I can barely cope with mild but, he ate every bit and obviously enjoyed it.
This is my Dad. He usually has to order is food extra extra extra spicy and quote “I know I’m a pasty white guy but trust me, I can handle it”. Half the time, at new restaurants, he has to have it remade or ask for hot sauce bc they didn’t make it hot enough!
@Robynhoodlum Order it online, problemo solved. I love spicy food like I eat peppers raw sometimes. Not relevant to Thai culture but had some spicy Indian curry think I was gonna die. Genuinely cld not eat it. No clue if it was just the place the dish or what.
That was Like my Life till a few Years ago ... Devilled Singhalese Food is' nearly Same "hell-spicy", you get a Chemical INSIDE CLEANSING, for real! 😭😂😵💫💥🫣❗But No Bacteries can stay alive in that Food - that's why I became never sick of "Montezumas Revenge"... Like other Tourists! 😂😂👍🏻🍀💞❗ After a while I could Not Go to Sri Lanka and Thailand ..I have to start new again to become used to the Spices! 🫣🤗👍🏻
@@Bibagodiva55 l went through that with lndian food. I used to have no problem eating and enjoying a Vindaloo but spent a decade or 2 living in a country where Curries didn't exist - l used to get a friend to send me jars of spices occasionally but, have completely lost my ability to cope with anything more than a very mild curry nowadays. Even Thai or Korean needs to be mild for me now. 🤷♀️
@Bibagodiva55 some herbs and spices are mildly anti-bacterial, but the sensation of spicy itself (caused by capsaicin and similar chemicals) doesn't affect bacteria, it doesn't even affect all animals (birds don't taste spicy for example, it's mostly mammals)
I thought I can handle spicy food pretty well but when I got to Thailand i ordered my food not as spicy but ended up crying as well. The locals were laughing at me 😅😂
Jalapeños at Mexican markets vs Asian markets are sooo different. I'm Asian and usually made jalapeño poppers using jalapeños from the Mexican markets... bought some at the Asian markets and I thought I was going to die. Like they bred those jalapeños to be weapons
if you look at the history of chile peppers, it's clear that South Asia began modifying them immediately thru old fashioned genetic engineering... there's barely a gap (in history terms) between OG chile being introduced to Asia and the very specific little Asian peppers being part of the diet. Asia was *ready* for that spice!
@kepalakentang yup. Chilies are cultivated all over the world. The plants are all modified in different ways. In Asia, they modified those seeds to be hella spicy. In the Americas, they'll modified them to be larger with a better yield. Genetics is fun! LoL
same here, Many of my international friends question my Thai nationality countless times cuz I cannot eat any spicy food and I also don't like food that has coconut milk in it lol. My Thai friends once said that I eat like an 8-year-old kid lmao.
I worked and lived in Thailand for about one year. From what I gather you can just spend 15-20 minutes taking all the peppers off your plate then eating it. That’s what I did! Lucky me no spicy seasoning just peppers.
as a korean, I am totally agree with it. cuz we have pride in spicy food. so I've chose " spicy" one in thai restaurant all the time. and pretend i am okay with thai spicy. but thai spicy is really damm spicy for me even 😂😂😂😂 but can't tell anyone because of korean spicy pride. btw you are so adorable😊
I don't particularly enjoy very spicy, but if it has coconut milk or a lot of ghee I can handle it OK (like in Thai or Indian). Especially in Indian if there's raita and lassi on the side. but 'drier' spicy meals I absolutely can't handle, like other Indian and Thai but pretty much all Mexican, Korean, etc
I'm in the same boat. I have a friend who is a quintessential white guy with a hot sauce collection. So the Thai restaurant near him will make his food extra spicy. I ordered food from there, and yes, it kicked my ass. But I still finished it due to pride.
It's so weird bc as a Mexican that grew up with spicy food I always found Korean food to be kind of sweet, the spice level is like the amount of spice that some of our candy has but I agree, Ethiopian food and Afghanistan food is a murder attempt like it's so spicy, I got too cocky and left runy nosed with tears in my eyes but still ate it
I used to work with some lovely Thai ladies and They knew I liked eating peppers with my sandwiches. They gave me a Thai red pepper and almost killed me🥵
@@MonsieurArlequin I had older Thai lady as a neighbor who grew peppers as a hobby, I tried eating one of those birds eyes straight of the plant, it was so spicy I was damn near hallucinating from it. I miss the spicy ass meals she would share with me.
That one time I tried an authentic papaya salad and it was legitimately a near death experience, I was lying on a park bench for more than an hour, I was scared the pain will never stop 😭
There's a Thai exchange student in my class and she had some snacks with her and offered me some. She warned me that "it's a little bit spicy" but I can handle spice pretty well... or so I thought. Holy shit I almost died
@@abudabeok why do i see your avatar EVERYWHERE? like i can’t even find that white dog picture on google images but there’s always someone in every comments section that has it, like is this a cult wtf is up
So I'm mixed but grew up with my Thai grandma. A lot of my family can't handle spicy food, but I love it. Whenever my grandma cooks, she makes a separate portion for herself with more spice. I always ask for some and she always says it's too spicy for me. It was the same thing for years, I ask and she says it's too spicy. Finally when I enter high school she starts sharing her food with me, to both of our delight. A few years later to celebrate me getting a great job, she decides to make my favorite spicy beef with rice. Turns out that while my lips and mouth can handle extra extra spice, my stomach can't 😭 I ended up vomiting my first day at the new job. I felt so bad because the spicy beef was SO GOOD. I still eat that particular recipe, but now I have to eat ice cream or bread or something after to settle my stomach
RELATE. My mouth and tastebuds love the spice but my digestive system does NOT. I don't even care though, it's worth the toilet-sitting the next day >:((
Had a student from China as neighbour who told me he could not eat spicy food anymore because he ate too much of it. Still I wonder, whether regular (and kinda moderate) consumption could help to make the body get used to digest it.
@@HelpToFindHappynesschina is huge tho, some of them just can't handle spicy, too much will cause eczema or mouth ulcers. I have those with spicy food from sichuan/Guizhou. I'd say this happens a lot with ppl from Canton region or Hong Konger, probably even a genetic thing.
That's BS. Most Thai restaurants ask you how spicy from 0 to 20. 0 has no heat at all. So your either lying or you didn't ask for no heat. A level 5 will make most Americans cry.
@@leahwhiteley5164It happened for real, for comedic effect I left out that I suspect the waiter accidentally switched two plates when bringing the food
Thai person here. I remember going to this hot chicken wing restaurant in Finland. It was a famous Finnish chain restaurant specializing in hot chicken wings. There were like 10 levels of spicy if I remember correctly. 1 being the mildest and 10 hottest. I picked level 9 because I was confident in my spice tolerance but also being slightly cautious because I was afraid of wasting money on food I couldn’t eat if it was too hot. Anyways, once I had the wings I could barely feel the heat. It was barely spicy and I thought they either gave me the wrong hot sauce or they have no idea what hot means. Now I realize the problem was probably me
Not a problem - just that you have a different food tradition in your country. That is absolutely legit. What would the world be like, if all countries ate the same kind of food?
If you want something over in the nordic countries or middle europe that is really spicy for Thai people, you need to get the stuff where you have to sign a contract that they cannot be held liable for medical problems from the spice.
one day in Thailand they brought us soup and spices separately, and I decided to add just a little bit to the soup....I couldn't finish it....I would have burned my mouth if I continued to eat
My theory is that the finns never had much spices because they where expensive and people not rich enough to buy them, so finnish food is by most standards bland, a little bit of pepper is considerd hot.
We Vietnamese should remember that we are not famous for being spicy. I have Chinese spicy pot and Korean noodles pretty regularly but that one time when I ate a Thai friend’s tom yum… i have become much more humble
Lol, you're not kidding when saying that Thai (or to be more precise, Southern Thai) tom yum are spicy. As a Malaysian who lived in northern part of the peninsula, i am pretty accustomed to Thai cruisine. But, when i went to South Thai, clearly their sense of spiciness humbled me. I mean, the tom yum was so spicy that my eye were blurry from tears and i have to keep blowing out my nose due to mucus. It's very delicious though, 10/10 would try it again
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Thai Cuisine is like an addictive and delicious torture (': - from someone growing up in an African family where adding 'piment' to everything was customary. But after spending my life in Europe, I still love the fiery spices, but the spices don't love me back: the Thai ones absolutely hurt me 🤣
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 That right! I am Thai. Actually the most spicy thai food is thai southern food. Mostly what that foreigner have try is middle thai food which have the most mild flavors. And if you order for extra spicy Thai southern level also another level with Thai middle level.😂
@@mktmeetknight5963 I think Southern like to add more herb (ex.fingerroot) and North-eastern like to add more chilli.They add chilli untill it's become main recipe in dish😅
My aunt is Thai and her husband is Mexican and istg they had this exact exchange. “Careful babe it’s Thai food so it’s spicy” “oh I’m Mexican I can handle my spice!” [he nearly dies]
During one of my visits to Bangkok, I ate two chicken dishes at a stall in Chatuchak. I didn't anticipate the level of spiciness. My whole face was burning (it was literally red), my whole body was sweating, and i was crying the whole time. But did I give up? Nope, the food was simply so good to ignore.😅
I’m Mexican and so is my mother in law and I would brag how her salsa is spicy. My boyfriend took me to a Thai restaurant and when I said to the waiter “make it as spicy as you can don’t be scared” I kid you not his eyes bulged and he was sweating bringing me my plate. Let’s just say my boyfriend finished his plate and I took mine to go 😂
Idk man, I went to a Thai place with my friends and my black friend ordered it at level 5 (the max), so me (also black) felt obligated to do the same. I could barely taste the spice it was kinda mild tbh
As a Thai who can’t eat much spicy in my country, one day I date have something like date at home with a German man and he said he make something spicy for me. I was worried but it is not spicy at all lol. That is the first time that Thai spicy is another level lol
In a Vietnamese family, the father is mostly the one throwing half of the spicy sauce bottle in his soup, crying and sweating intensly but enjoying the pain.
“i can handle it” -famous last words at almost every thai restaurant ever 😂 my college best friend did this to himself back in the day, my parents took my friends and i out for thai food and he thought he would order his food the same spice level as my mom, who is a psycho with spicy things. i swear, his eyes looked EXACTLY like that after the first few bites 😂
I used to worked as a waitress in a thai restaurant in Thailand, some tourist from Canada told me they want the real Thai spiciness, to have the authentic taste and real experience. I went in and told the chef and my Thai colleagues, they just laughed, and proceeded to give him the tourist version. The next time I checked how he was doing, and saw that he was crying.
I had the honour to be invited to a Thai family dinner (long story) in Thailand. So I got the "authentic taste"... and yes, it was an experience. Didn't cry though, but it gets your nose running which is awkward at a dinner table.
When I was stationed in Japan, there was a chain called Coco's Curry. They would ask for what level of spice you wanted in your curry from 0-10. There was a Coco's Curry at the closest train station to the base, and the military members loved to go there. I had a coworker who was proud that he could handle a 10. One day, he went downtown and saw a Coco's Curry. He went in and ordered a 10. He apparently was in pain with a single bite and learned that the local Coco's Curry was downplaying the heat for the Americans.
@@otakukaku bro he must be a wimp, Japanese food is not known to really be spicy, so when they make stuff that is they tend to tone it down. You need to give your friend Punjabi food, that will make flames shoot out of his eyes and let him meet his god.
Last time I was in Thailand, me and my wife followed a short cooking class and they showed us a recipe for a papaya salad. Teacher told us 1 thai chili for a regular spicy salad, 2 for a properly hot one. Then she went ahead and chopped 6 chili peppers for her own salad... xD
Thai spicy is another level, my husband is Indian and orders Indian food at the spicy level.. but even he can barely handle Thai spicy. I can handle Indian medium, but I order Thai mild and it still tingles but in the good way I like. Lol
yeah my mother is Thai and we have this chili that we use to eat it with rice. And there was 1 time i went to Indian restaurant I asked the chef to make it spicy highest level, still not spicy to me.
I bet your husband is from mainland India. If he's from NE india then girl you'll see him eating and biting red chili with rice everyday. Here we even had spicy curry with spicy chutney with spicy salad
When you ask for spicy in Thailand you’ve gotta also ask where the chef comes from, if they’re southern or eastern Thai, you ask for a little spicy if you want really spicy.
Yes, my (German) father worked for a bit in Thailand. He impressed his colleagues by being able to handle average spicy Thai food. He was not able to handle Southern Thai spicy. To be fair they warned him that Southern Thai spicy is on another level.
Thai food is what turned me on to spice!! I absolutely couldn’t stand hot food before, but after trying this Thai place near me that has really amazing authentic Thai food 🤯 spicy food is so delicious when the spice is used properly for flavour instead of just hot for the sake of being hot like all American food is! I swear “hot” food in America is just hot for the sake of burning your mouth for “fun” I guess? It’s flavourless pain 😂 Thai food opened up a whole new world for me.
My husband is Indian, but I’m white. Whenever we eat Thai he and his family order everything “Thai hot” (that’s actually what’s it’s called, which I never knew - I can’t even handle white people spicy). When my husband cooks for people he has to make two versions: One Indian people spicy and one white people spicy. It’s no joke - he made our baby cry once because he cooked her scrambled eggs in a pan he used to cook himself eggs. He wiped it out, but there was just so much chili oil residue still in the pan. (She was totally fine, just startled - and now at 18 she LOVES her dad’s spicy food). I feel like there should be warning labels 😂
Indian here, and I know exactly what you mean, Indian food is not spicy because of chillis per se, we use a lot of spices and herbs which makes our food spicy. Even the "european food" in india is prepared using much more spices than how they are authentically made, I'm glad your daughters developed good spice tolerance though, wouldn't want her to miss on authentic desi food because its just delicious 😂😂
That's how to get kids used to spicy food if they don't get to taste spicy food in childhood, they won't be able to eat it when they grow up either. So they should get to taste spicy food even if they cry the first time.
I’m Mexican and I can handle spicy, I take a trip to Thailand 🇹🇭 with one of my friends. Dude! I was sweating so bad my shirt was soaked and the lady serving me was laughing and asked if I was okay. eventually got used to the spice but damn they know what spicy is lol 😂
Mexicans and Texans eat habaneros which is higher on the scoville list than the birds eye. I went to a Thai restaurant in Germany and asked for the papaya salad and they only put three chili's in it. So I told my Thai girlfriend to ask them for six more and they looked at me like I was crazy. I was at a Thai party and someone handed me a birds eye and told me to try it. So I did and this older Thai lady jumped out her chair screaming no no ,or at least I was told because she was speaking in Thai and she was shocked that I didn't react to it. Then a German friend tried just the tip and started crying.
Bueno, oficialmente tengo miedo. Siempre uso el estándar mejicano para el picante, si tolero el picante más hijueputa mejicano, puedo contra cualquier cosa; pero ahora no sé jajaj
I’m part Mexican but my step family is Thai so I grew up with both. I feel like the heat hits differently for them, so if you are ready for one you might not be ready for the other.
working as a dishwasher at a thai restaurant i will never forget they had the food processor for the chile powder in the dish room and whenever they ran it i had to physically leave the kitchen for a good 15min because i couldnt breathe... theyre not messing around
There was a Thai place I went to for a while and I'd always tell the cashier I wanted my noodles very spicy. At first she was just giving me the white people level of spicy, but little did I know she was slowly raising the level every time I showed up. After like the fifteenth time I got noodles there I realized what was going on because I was just crying over the damn take out box like. "Why would you do this to me? It hurts but I love pad thai too much to stop eating it."
Authentic pad Thai isn't even suppose to be spicy though. Pad Thai is a sweet dish with a hint of sourness from tamerine and add on dry chilli flakes if you want.
I had a roommate in college who was Thai. He was good at cooking all sorts of foods, including Thai of course. One day I tried a portion that he made to his liking (he made mine pretty mild) and I was coughing so much he was about to call for an ambulance! I don't think I'll ever have the tolerance to spice he does, but he did teach me a lot about cooking and some tips to handle spicy food.
When we went to Thailand for the first time our guide warned us that there's a huuuge difference between european spicy and thai spicy and to be careful. I learned the hard way but dang it was so delicious!
I can still feel the burn on my lips from authentic Thai food… How aren’t all Thai people dead by 35 from stomach cancer? How tough are their intestines?
@@bingobongo1615They start eating spicy since theyre young. Thai spicy food is also something else. Its spicy, yet very addicting and truly delicious. You are in pain but you cant stop eating.
@@bingobongo1615 As the comment above said, many things contain chili here and we started when we were young, kinda like how Europeans has more tolerance to lactose.
My friend is Filipino and got the highest spice level at a Thai place going “I can handle it, I love spice, I cook with spice all the time”….lets just say we still tease him for that decision and the inevitable reaction😆
I had a guy come in to the thai restaurant i work at and was the last customer to leave because he took an hour to finish his food. He came in and asked us what is the hottest dish we had and proceeded to order it and asked it to be as authentic as possible. That was a jungle curry, we came back and he was crying and downing his water. But kudos to him for finishing it
as a Cambodian with a dad that stayed in thailand for 15 years.. i can relate when it comes to spice level in my food (i made a bad choice saying i wanted spicy spicy on my food)
I remember ordering Tom Kah Kai (spicy soup) in Thailand, I can hold my spicy food pretty well and I was perfectly fine until I started munching on the “green bean” that was floating around in it……….😭😭😩 The kitchen staff had a good laugh I can imagine 🥲
Yup. Went on a first date once and we got Thai. I thought I had a high spice tolerance until I asked for a maximum spice level. Literally couldn't even speak and ended up looking stupid 😂
My Ex-bf was from Asia and literally did the same. Wanted to look macho and ordered spicy green curry. Ended up sneezing, snifffling, tearing the whole date. I still found him adorable. His flatmates Apparently laughed at him all night when he told them. 😅
Are you me? I flew across the country to meet someone off of Omegle, we went to a Thai fusion place on a first date, and they had some curried wings that came in varying spice levels. Anyway, being 19 at the time and overly confident, I coolely asked for the hottest wing on the menu. The waitress confirmed 3 times that I, in fact, wanted the hottest - and I, being an idiot, said "Oh yes - spice ain't no thing for me" - Dude, my eyes were watering, raccoon mascara/eyeliner, snot dripping, I couldn't speak, or anything. It was so embarrassing.
German-viet here. This was literally exactly the same situation + reaction I had when eating Thai food for the first time. Ironically I also ordered the papaya salad 🤣
lol, this is so funny and relatable. I'm Thai-Chinese and my level is considered weak within TH. When I was in Germany and I cooked for my friends for the first time, everyone almost died from the chili... including my Indian and Mexican friends.
Different Indians handle different spice levels. I am a Rajasthani and tourists from neighboring state bitch about how spicy our food is. I am like "That's city food, supposed to be tolerable to tourists. The real village food is 10x spicy"
I'll never forget the first time I had Thai food and asked for three stars heat because that's how I ordered Chinese food. I had the same reaction as in this video! My brother asked me "are you okay?"
When I was in Thailand, our group got served some super fragrant-smelling white curry dish (it looked like Tom Kha soup, but in curry form). It looked so innocent! It was the spiciest food I have ever eaten. I loved it though, and now I can handle very high levels of spice!
I'm Indian and i live on the west coast. The daily staple here is fish curry, it's been like that since 6th century. Fish curry is supposed to be tangy not spicy, fish curry should be anything but spicy.
I worked in a Thai restaurant. The heat scale was 1-4 and one American customer would always come in and order a 6 and eat it with no problem. My eyes would water bringing it out😂
ooh I had the same experience once when I ordered "Indian spicy". The server, the manager and the cook showed up at the table to check if I am still alive. Food was good though.
Thai spicy is so painful but so yummy 😭 whenever my family cooks they’re always like, “no no it’s not that spicy,” and then I burn my tongue off! But I always come back because it’s so delicious…
Thai is yummy, but I like vietnamese more. Vietnamese & japanese are my favourite asian cuisines. And indian, counting it. Those three and french are the 4 best foods in the world (except french breakfast, which is horrible.. 😵)
We went to a Thai restaurant in Bangkok. Have had Thai food a few times but this food was next level spicy. Said the same thing to my wife "are they trying to kill me!?!" I actually got heat blisters on my tongue
Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me a while back. Her mom (thai) works in a restaurant and a couple ordered spicey food. The boyfriend wanted the REAL spicey version despite her trying to explain to him it won't be enjoyable for him. But he wouldn't listen and bragged how he could handle it, so she went all out on him. ;) In the end he sat there crying his eyeballs out and the mom was rather satisfied with herself for being right in the end. 😂😂
Haha omg I'm from the Netherlands where everything is bland, even 'spicy' products in the store are not spicy at all. We tend to ask for 'German level spicy' because the Germans do make a mean spicy curry wurst! I also love Indian, Thai and Vietnamese food, my best friend and I always get the spiciest dish at restaurants and often get asked if we're REALLY sure :p They always compliment us when we eat the food without dying :p
@@sabinesteil4690 I guess they make different currywurst at a stall in Kleve, lol. We always go there and they always ask us if we're sure we want the Feuer version :p
@@evabakkerI'm German and Feuer version sounds like an extra spicy one, but I'm sure it's still nothing compared to the spicy-levels in Thailand or even India or Mexico.
Once in a tiny Thai-Restaurant they threw something so spicy in the frying pan in the open-door kitchen that from the smell only I had to cough repeatedly and got watery eyes.
I was in Mongolia with a thai colleague and we would only eat at Korean or Indian restaurant because the local Mongolian food would not be spicy enough, we would always say please make it max spicy and sometimes cook would come and ask are you sure 😂😂
I had pad Thai in Vietnamese restaurant he asked how spicy I said as spicy as you can make it but just in case 8/10. My stomach didn’t do well the next morning 😂
Hahahaha.. How I feel when I eat Thai food in Stockholm. It is mostly too sweet for me and when we found a real authentic Thai place, the spice level was killing me.. We enjoyed the food but my family and I were almost in tears at the end of the meal. It's always a case of two extremes..
@@binkao2938 Thai House Wok at Olivecronas Väg 20 but the last time I went was in 2017. Rayavadee Royal Thai Cuisine at Olofsgatan 6 is also pretty good. Went there in 2019.
@@cuclainne Ah thank you! Thai House Wok is a franchise so if you mean the same one I've tried it, but at other locations. I don't like it that much x'D I used to go a lot to Koh Phangan on Södermalm, and also ThaiBoat on Södermalm. Most recently I started going to Waan Thai in Vasastan. I don't know how they compare to thai food in Thailand, but they are the tastiest I've tried here so far :) I'll check out your other recommendation. Thank you
@@binkao2938 thanks for letting me know about the other thai food places. Will hit them up when I go to Stockholm the next time. We don't live in Sweden, we just fly back to visit family and friends.
Born in an Indian family, , chillis are daily spices here, I would like to compete with Indian spice level mainly we are used to red chilli flavors so Idk , If i will win Cos i am a medium spice lover though😂, but want to taste thai food U give me general idea tho, what kind of spices u ppl use in ur meals
hi brother... try spicy food from Gulbarga or Bijapur, karnatka State, India.... they eat too much slicy food.... no 1in world .. Try Byadgi Red chilli or Guntur Red chilli.... they are very hot chilli
My mom, (a white American woman born in El Paso mind you) is immune to spicy food. She loves going to Thai places and she always orders the maximum level of spicy food. And usually she’s disappointed that it’s not spicy enough. Meanwhile I take a bite the size of a teaspoon and I’m hacking and coughing on the floor for 15 minutes.😅
Anyone else have that issue where they’ll just keep eating because the joy the taste so much that their brain is just like “it’s worth the pain”? I’ll literally be bawling but still eating because food is soo good.
If it's only mild tongue burn or runny nose, then I'll continue eating since I'm not particularly in pain. But if it's any more than that, it's too spicy for me to enjoy the food.
Lol 😆 this reminds me of my uni days living in the dormitory for foreign exchange students. We had a Vietnamese, a Thai, a Korean, and an Indian prepare dinner for the group. They all accuse each other of not being able to handle spicy food. In the end, all Asians had to bow to the Indian food. 🤣
@Sofia yes, because India has certain chilli peppers that are the spiciest. Most Indian dishes are not that spicy compared to Thai or Korean food, but when India does spicy, it tops the rest
Hello, I’m from thailand so we have a surprise moment when western came to my country and order some Mussaman Curry When they try it and complain about it too spicy from Thais perspective this curry is the way too sweet and too much oil 😅
Want to try real thai food in Thailand to see spice level Thai food v/s Indian food Well i am Indian , but I like medium spicy , too much spicy is not my thing (even if some indians eat it ) 🤣
The only spicy thing i can bear and love is 'Thecha' (paste) of red chilli It's deadly spicy , but i have cravings for it There's also one of green chilli, but i love red one more
I live in Kansas and love Chinese, and always order it extra spicy. Which it never is. The first time I had Thai food, I had no clue. I was Thai innocent. I ordered extra spicy. The server asked, "are you sure?" I still didn't get the hint, and just said, "yes, I love spicy food." I should have listened. I've never experienced such pain. The server and I both had tears - me from pain, her from laughing so hard. It was so hot I was hallucinating. OMG I have respect for Thai folks.
Thai spicy is LETHAL. I learned that one the hard way… but the food was so good I’d hang out with my Thai friends and let them try to uNaLiVe me with their amazing food every week. 🤣
Living in Thailand, I always say "not spicy please" then they will say "little bit" and I'm like "little bit spicy for Thai, but for non-Thai it's already super spicy"😂 I like papaya salad very much 😊
I can confirm this. I am a Vietnamese and lived in Thailand for two plus years. Some of the Thai foods are extremely spicy for the Vietnamese's taste...
My dad, a filipino like me, worked in an oil rig in the gulf of thailand. He never liked spicy food before working there but now that he's retired, he needs to add chili in all his foods because his palette has been conditioned to like spicy food 😂
I feel this I didn't understand spicy is different depending on the chillies too like I can't hand Mexican spicy (I can eat it but I get migraines), but I can handle Indian spicy to a degree (because their chillies tend to be mild at first but build up as you eat more bites), but I order Thai mild and that's my maximum tolerance 😂
Idk man, I went to a Thai place with my friends and my black friend ordered it at level 5 (the max), so me (also black) felt obligated to do the same. I could barely taste the spice it was kinda mild tbh
Filled with chutzpah, I went to a Thai restaurant and asked that they make it as spicy as they can. Well, needless to say, I was humbled. After one bite, my stomach seized with the spiciness. And after I brought it home and tried to eat it two days later, it was STILL way too spicy to eat. I ultimately had to throw it out because I just couldn't handle. Yeah, I failed!!!!
I'm 1/2 Vietnamese and I grew up in Thailand so I LOVE Thai Hot. Unfortunately, as I get older my taste buds still love the taste but my insides can no longer handle it. So, it's a tough decision at every meal.
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Ikr!!
same 🤣🤣🤣
Same!🤣😆🤣😂also
Same
That is how much spicy 🔥 it is.
'they're trying to kill me!' 😂
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I don't wanna ruin 999 likes but still
Made ma eyes water 🥲🥹
It's like being Somali and being like _oh yea we eat lots if spice!_ and then going to an Ethiopian restaurant for the first time. It really does feel like a murder attempt lmfao
Lol I'm half Ethiopian living in Germany and i find ethopian food not spicy at all😭
Yeah Ethiopian food isn’t even spicy at all.
Yeah your right! I can't handle that much spice
Ethiopian *is* delicious though, so worth it
Lol funny story you told, im israeli and i went to an Ethiopian restaurant and it was delicious but so many new flavors (and it was run by an Ethiopian staff crew)!
I went to my local Thai restaurant with a German friend. When he asked for Thai hot, two waiters AND the chef came to check if he was sure that's what he meant and explain just how hot it was. He just laughed, had to explain that he'd lived in Thailand for a few years. I can barely cope with mild but, he ate every bit and obviously enjoyed it.
This is my Dad. He usually has to order is food extra extra extra spicy and quote “I know I’m a pasty white guy but trust me, I can handle it”. Half the time, at new restaurants, he has to have it remade or ask for hot sauce bc they didn’t make it hot enough!
@Robynhoodlum Order it online, problemo solved. I love spicy food like I eat peppers raw sometimes. Not relevant to Thai culture but had some spicy Indian curry think I was gonna die. Genuinely cld not eat it. No clue if it was just the place the dish or what.
That was Like my Life till a few Years ago ... Devilled Singhalese Food is' nearly Same "hell-spicy", you get a Chemical INSIDE CLEANSING, for real! 😭😂😵💫💥🫣❗But No Bacteries can stay alive in that Food - that's why I became never sick of "Montezumas Revenge"... Like other Tourists! 😂😂👍🏻🍀💞❗
After a while I could Not Go to Sri Lanka and Thailand ..I have to start new again to become used to the Spices! 🫣🤗👍🏻
@@Bibagodiva55 l went through that with lndian food. I used to have no problem eating and enjoying a Vindaloo but spent a decade or 2 living in a country where Curries didn't exist - l used to get a friend to send me jars of spices occasionally but, have completely lost my ability to cope with anything more than a very mild curry nowadays. Even Thai or Korean needs to be mild for me now. 🤷♀️
@Bibagodiva55 some herbs and spices are mildly anti-bacterial, but the sensation of spicy itself (caused by capsaicin and similar chemicals) doesn't affect bacteria, it doesn't even affect all animals (birds don't taste spicy for example, it's mostly mammals)
I'm Thai, and I think my white friends can totally relate because they act normal when they try my moms Thai food but when we go to my room they cry😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Yeah! I’m ok!”
“ *kill me* “
😄 no thats the worse cos even those tears r gonna be hot 😅 😆
They must bare with the heat if they are going to come into your house. No white friend of mine are coming in my house without passing the spicy test.
I thought I can handle spicy food pretty well but when I got to Thailand i ordered my food not as spicy but ended up crying as well. The locals were laughing at me 😅😂
Jalapeños at Mexican markets vs Asian markets are sooo different. I'm Asian and usually made jalapeño poppers using jalapeños from the Mexican markets... bought some at the Asian markets and I thought I was going to die. Like they bred those jalapeños to be weapons
When I eat mexican food with jalapenos, I always think they could be a bit more spicy but probably an asian one would be to much (I'm german)
That's why the plants made the fruit spicy in the first place 😅 as a protection to not get eaten
if you look at the history of chile peppers, it's clear that South Asia began modifying them immediately thru old fashioned genetic engineering... there's barely a gap (in history terms) between OG chile being introduced to Asia and the very specific little Asian peppers being part of the diet. Asia was *ready* for that spice!
@@montananerd8244 Hahahaha yeah they were
@kepalakentang yup. Chilies are cultivated all over the world. The plants are all modified in different ways. In Asia, they modified those seeds to be hella spicy. In the Americas, they'll modified them to be larger with a better yield. Genetics is fun! LoL
As a Thai who can’t eat spicy food… I die several times a day 😂
Haha, I am part Tamil, but don‘t like spicy food. And my relatives already took spice off for me, but I still couldn‘t sit the next day. 😂
Relate!
same here, Many of my international friends question my Thai nationality countless times cuz I cannot eat any spicy food and I also don't like food that has coconut milk in it lol. My Thai friends once said that I eat like an 8-year-old kid lmao.
I worked and lived in Thailand for about one year. From what I gather you can just spend 15-20 minutes taking all the peppers off your plate then eating it. That’s what I did! Lucky me no spicy seasoning just peppers.
Same,I'm half Thai half German
as a korean, I am totally agree with it. cuz we have pride in spicy food. so I've chose " spicy" one in thai restaurant all the time. and pretend i am okay with thai spicy. but thai spicy is really damm spicy for me even 😂😂😂😂 but can't tell anyone because of korean spicy pride.
btw you are so adorable😊
I don't particularly enjoy very spicy, but if it has coconut milk or a lot of ghee I can handle it OK (like in Thai or Indian). Especially in Indian if there's raita and lassi on the side. but 'drier' spicy meals I absolutely can't handle, like other Indian and Thai but pretty much all Mexican, Korean, etc
I'm in the same boat. I have a friend who is a quintessential white guy with a hot sauce collection. So the Thai restaurant near him will make his food extra spicy. I ordered food from there, and yes, it kicked my ass. But I still finished it due to pride.
omg i'm thai and i think korean spicy is strong 😭😭 i always need tissue when i eat buldak ramyeon
Then you should try seblak from Indonesia. I think Indonesia and Thailand have same level
It's so weird bc as a Mexican that grew up with spicy food I always found Korean food to be kind of sweet, the spice level is like the amount of spice that some of our candy has but I agree, Ethiopian food and Afghanistan food is a murder attempt like it's so spicy, I got too cocky and left runy nosed with tears in my eyes but still ate it
Being half Thai, half german is so much fun. I get burned tongues from somtam and dirreah from European cheese.
Edit: got my cheese problem fixed.
Good thing, both are painfully delicious
I feel u. Indonesian-Spanish here, the worst of both worlds
Jahaha know what you mean
Your gene seems like it does not on your side at all 😂
I’m
I used to work with some lovely Thai ladies and They knew I liked eating peppers with my sandwiches. They gave me a Thai red pepper and almost killed me🥵
As a half thai, Thai people will eat birds eye chili like snacks, season their food as if its black pepper
@@MonsieurArlequin I had older Thai lady as a neighbor who grew peppers as a hobby, I tried eating one of those birds eyes straight of the plant, it was so spicy I was damn near hallucinating from it. I miss the spicy ass meals she would share with me.
@@MonsieurArlequin Yes!! As a Thai person who loves to eat chillis i can confirmed on that lol
@@MonsieurArlequin I LOVEEEE FRIED CHILLI
@@MonsieurArlequin same in India
Asking to choose between German spicy and Thai spicy is like "do you want a memory of a light tap on your shoulder or a hydrogen bomb. No in-between"
That one time I tried an authentic papaya salad and it was legitimately a near death experience, I was lying on a park bench for more than an hour, I was scared the pain will never stop 😭
As a thai, I apologize for your next trip at the toilet.
There's a Thai exchange student in my class and she had some snacks with her and offered me some. She warned me that "it's a little bit spicy" but I can handle spice pretty well... or so I thought. Holy shit I almost died
Is it Bento - Squid Sweet & Spicy?
Don’t trust us when we say “It’s a little bit spicy” 😂
Haha I friking love that snack, but after awhile, it gets hot from all the buildup@@TheDeCaLoK
@@abudabeok why do i see your avatar EVERYWHERE? like i can’t even find that white dog picture on google images but there’s always someone in every comments section that has it, like is this a cult wtf is up
@@abudabemy mexican wife does the same thing. Even if things are inarguably very spicy she will downplay how spicy it is.
So I'm mixed but grew up with my Thai grandma. A lot of my family can't handle spicy food, but I love it. Whenever my grandma cooks, she makes a separate portion for herself with more spice. I always ask for some and she always says it's too spicy for me. It was the same thing for years, I ask and she says it's too spicy. Finally when I enter high school she starts sharing her food with me, to both of our delight. A few years later to celebrate me getting a great job, she decides to make my favorite spicy beef with rice. Turns out that while my lips and mouth can handle extra extra spice, my stomach can't 😭 I ended up vomiting my first day at the new job. I felt so bad because the spicy beef was SO GOOD. I still eat that particular recipe, but now I have to eat ice cream or bread or something after to settle my stomach
Also vomiting spicy food hurts even more 😭 it burns 🥵
RELATE. My mouth and tastebuds love the spice but my digestive system does NOT. I don't even care though, it's worth the toilet-sitting the next day >:((
Had a student from China as neighbour who told me he could not eat spicy food anymore because he ate too much of it.
Still I wonder, whether regular (and kinda moderate) consumption could help to make the body get used to digest it.
@@HelpToFindHappynesschina is huge tho, some of them just can't handle spicy, too much will cause eczema or mouth ulcers. I have those with spicy food from sichuan/Guizhou. I'd say this happens a lot with ppl from Canton region or Hong Konger, probably even a genetic thing.
As an Indian whose taste buds can handle it but the stomach starts burning I can relate to that.
"I can handle spicy food" will be taken as a challenge in a Thai restaurant. xD
Hence why my whiter-than-sour-cream dad loves eating Thai food. They’re the only ones who make it hot enough!😂
@@RobynhoodlumSome like it hot.
Some like it HAZMAT. 😁
I went to a real Thai restaurant once and ordered the least spicy dish. I died.
That's BS. Most Thai restaurants ask you how spicy from 0 to 20. 0 has no heat at all. So your either lying or you didn't ask for no heat. A level 5 will make most Americans cry.
That's exactly what I experienced.
I died with the least spicy Thai dish.
@@leahwhiteley5164It happened for real, for comedic effect I left out that I suspect the waiter accidentally switched two plates when bringing the food
Thai person here. I remember going to this hot chicken wing restaurant in Finland. It was a famous Finnish chain restaurant specializing in hot chicken wings. There were like 10 levels of spicy if I remember correctly. 1 being the mildest and 10 hottest. I picked level 9 because I was confident in my spice tolerance but also being slightly cautious because I was afraid of wasting money on food I couldn’t eat if it was too hot. Anyways, once I had the wings I could barely feel the heat. It was barely spicy and I thought they either gave me the wrong hot sauce or they have no idea what hot means. Now I realize the problem was probably me
Not a problem - just that you have a different food tradition in your country. That is absolutely legit. What would the world be like, if all countries ate the same kind of food?
If you want something over in the nordic countries or middle europe that is really spicy for Thai people, you need to get the stuff where you have to sign a contract that they cannot be held liable for medical problems from the spice.
Can I use this for my 466 paragraph essay?
one day in Thailand they brought us soup and spices separately, and I decided to add just a little bit to the soup....I couldn't finish it....I would have burned my mouth if I continued to eat
My theory is that the finns never had much spices because they where expensive and people not rich enough to buy them, so finnish food is by most standards bland, a little bit of pepper is considerd hot.
We Vietnamese should remember that we are not famous for being spicy.
I have Chinese spicy pot and Korean noodles pretty regularly but that one time when I ate a Thai friend’s tom yum… i have become much more humble
Lol, you're not kidding when saying that Thai (or to be more precise, Southern Thai) tom yum are spicy.
As a Malaysian who lived in northern part of the peninsula, i am pretty accustomed to Thai cruisine. But, when i went to South Thai, clearly their sense of spiciness humbled me.
I mean, the tom yum was so spicy that my eye were blurry from tears and i have to keep blowing out my nose due to mucus.
It's very delicious though, 10/10 would try it again
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440
Thai Cuisine is like an addictive and delicious torture (': - from someone growing up in an African family where adding 'piment' to everything was customary. But after spending my life in Europe, I still love the fiery spices, but the spices don't love me back: the Thai ones absolutely hurt me 🤣
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 That right! I am Thai. Actually the most spicy thai food is thai southern food. Mostly what that foreigner have try is middle thai food which have the most mild flavors. And if you order for extra spicy Thai southern level also another level with Thai middle level.😂
@@mktmeetknight5963 I think Southern like to add more herb (ex.fingerroot) and North-eastern like to add more chilli.They add chilli untill it's become main recipe in dish😅
But the people can tolerate it quite. You should’ve seen how they eat noodle soup. Every noodle bite they’ll take a bite on a raw thai chili.
My aunt is Thai and her husband is Mexican and istg they had this exact exchange. “Careful babe it’s Thai food so it’s spicy” “oh I’m Mexican I can handle my spice!” [he nearly dies]
During one of my visits to Bangkok, I ate two chicken dishes at a stall in Chatuchak. I didn't anticipate the level of spiciness. My whole face was burning (it was literally red), my whole body was sweating, and i was crying the whole time. But did I give up? Nope, the food was simply so good to ignore.😅
No matter how much "Pain" the spicy food causes to us, it'll always be too addicting to not eat it.
agreed!
Nah bro fr I had Thai ramen that shit was spicy as hell but I kept eating it bc it tasted so good
You are everywhere
Nah it's not spicy
Agreed!
I’m Mexican and so is my mother in law and I would brag how her salsa is spicy. My boyfriend took me to a Thai restaurant and when I said to the waiter “make it as spicy as you can don’t be scared” I kid you not his eyes bulged and he was sweating bringing me my plate. Let’s just say my boyfriend finished his plate and I took mine to go 😂
Thai spicy makes you dead and alive at the same time 😭😭😭
Idk man, I went to a Thai place with my friends and my black friend ordered it at level 5 (the max), so me (also black) felt obligated to do the same. I could barely taste the spice it was kinda mild tbh
Black people spice is on a whole nother level
As a Thai who can’t eat much spicy in my country, one day I date have something like date at home with a German man and he said he make something spicy for me. I was worried but it is not spicy at all lol. That is the first time that Thai spicy is another level lol
@@YourMom-wi5to nah they just don't put as much in for foreigners
In a Vietnamese family, the father is mostly the one throwing half of the spicy sauce bottle in his soup, crying and sweating intensly but enjoying the pain.
“i can handle it” -famous last words at almost every thai restaurant ever 😂 my college best friend did this to himself back in the day, my parents took my friends and i out for thai food and he thought he would order his food the same spice level as my mom, who is a psycho with spicy things. i swear, his eyes looked EXACTLY like that after the first few bites 😂
I used to worked as a waitress in a thai restaurant in Thailand, some tourist from Canada told me they want the real Thai spiciness, to have the authentic taste and real experience.
I went in and told the chef and my Thai colleagues, they just laughed, and proceeded to give him the tourist version.
The next time I checked how he was doing, and saw that he was crying.
I eat along with my Thai gf and love som tam, Thai style, with 'para' (don't know how to write it). The spiciness is just something to learn.
I had the honour to be invited to a Thai family dinner (long story) in Thailand. So I got the "authentic taste"... and yes, it was an experience. Didn't cry though, but it gets your nose running which is awkward at a dinner table.
That might be my friend that went to Thailand a few years ago lol
When I was stationed in Japan, there was a chain called Coco's Curry. They would ask for what level of spice you wanted in your curry from 0-10. There was a Coco's Curry at the closest train station to the base, and the military members loved to go there.
I had a coworker who was proud that he could handle a 10. One day, he went downtown and saw a Coco's Curry. He went in and ordered a 10. He apparently was in pain with a single bite and learned that the local Coco's Curry was downplaying the heat for the Americans.
@@otakukaku bro he must be a wimp, Japanese food is not known to really be spicy, so when they make stuff that is they tend to tone it down. You need to give your friend Punjabi food, that will make flames shoot out of his eyes and let him meet his god.
Last time I was in Thailand, me and my wife followed a short cooking class and they showed us a recipe for a papaya salad. Teacher told us 1 thai chili for a regular spicy salad, 2 for a properly hot one. Then she went ahead and chopped 6 chili peppers for her own salad... xD
I like 4-5 but it depends on how well they mash them up. It can vary a lot.
I usually put 15-20 Thai chillies 🤔🤔
@@ScrumptiousRump at that point, you are eating chillies salad, not somtum (papaya salad) anymore
In Thailand you’d order papaya salad according to how many chilis you want in it and yeah I think 6 is pretty typical.
@@evakeeslar1766 Chai khup!
The eye filter 💀
Lol that's why in Korea, our spicy levels are: elementary school students can handle, mild, spicy, really spicy, and murder me.
Thai spicy is another level, my husband is Indian and orders Indian food at the spicy level.. but even he can barely handle Thai spicy. I can handle Indian medium, but I order Thai mild and it still tingles but in the good way I like. Lol
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yeah my mother is Thai and we have this chili that we use to eat it with rice. And there was 1 time i went to Indian restaurant I asked the chef to make it spicy highest level, still not spicy to me.
As an Indian, I agree.
@@kolschemadche1621 i am Indian i want to say treat her thai food and she will not brag again😂
I bet your husband is from mainland India. If he's from NE india then girl you'll see him eating and biting red chili with rice everyday. Here we even had spicy curry with spicy chutney with spicy salad
Don't worry, as a Thai, I would've chosen the German level of spicyness too. 😂
When you ask for spicy in Thailand you’ve gotta also ask where the chef comes from, if they’re southern or eastern Thai, you ask for a little spicy if you want really spicy.
Good to know. If I ever visit Thailand, I'll be going to South or East Thailand 😊
Yes, my (German) father worked for a bit in Thailand. He impressed his colleagues by being able to handle average spicy Thai food. He was not able to handle Southern Thai spicy. To be fair they warned him that Southern Thai spicy is on another level.
Thai food is what turned me on to spice!! I absolutely couldn’t stand hot food before, but after trying this Thai place near me that has really amazing authentic Thai food 🤯 spicy food is so delicious when the spice is used properly for flavour instead of just hot for the sake of being hot like all American food is! I swear “hot” food in America is just hot for the sake of burning your mouth for “fun” I guess? It’s flavourless pain 😂 Thai food opened up a whole new world for me.
My husband is Indian, but I’m white. Whenever we eat Thai he and his family order everything “Thai hot” (that’s actually what’s it’s called, which I never knew - I can’t even handle white people spicy). When my husband cooks for people he has to make two versions: One Indian people spicy and one white people spicy. It’s no joke - he made our baby cry once because he cooked her scrambled eggs in a pan he used to cook himself eggs. He wiped it out, but there was just so much chili oil residue still in the pan. (She was totally fine, just startled - and now at 18 she LOVES her dad’s spicy food). I feel like there should be warning labels 😂
Indian here, and I know exactly what you mean, Indian food is not spicy because of chillis per se, we use a lot of spices and herbs which makes our food spicy. Even the "european food" in india is prepared using much more spices than how they are authentically made, I'm glad your daughters developed good spice tolerance though, wouldn't want her to miss on authentic desi food because its just delicious 😂😂
That's how to get kids used to spicy food if they don't get to taste spicy food in childhood, they won't be able to eat it when they grow up either. So they should get to taste spicy food even if they cry the first time.
White people hot😂
I call that corporate spicy
@@gunny4394I feel like our food is rich in flavour with different spices, not only mouth burning spicy using pepper.
@@nilanjasa007 that's what I said in my comment too!! It's different herbs and spices, like " garam masale" yk
I’m Mexican and I can handle spicy, I take a trip to Thailand 🇹🇭 with one of my friends. Dude! I was sweating so bad my shirt was soaked and the lady serving me was laughing and asked if I was okay. eventually got used to the spice but damn they know what spicy is lol 😂
Mexican spice level is nothing compared to the Southeast Asian spice level. We eat bird’s eye chilli here and those are deadly af.
Mexicans and Texans eat habaneros which is higher on the scoville list than the birds eye. I went to a Thai restaurant in Germany and asked for the papaya salad and they only put three chili's in it. So I told my Thai girlfriend to ask them for six more and they looked at me like I was crazy.
I was at a Thai party and someone handed me a birds eye and told me to try it. So I did and this older Thai lady jumped out her chair screaming no no ,or at least I was told because she was speaking in Thai and she was shocked that I didn't react to it. Then a German friend tried just the tip and started crying.
Bueno, oficialmente tengo miedo. Siempre uso el estándar mejicano para el picante, si tolero el picante más hijueputa mejicano, puedo contra cualquier cosa; pero ahora no sé jajaj
as Indonesian we eat one piece of tofu with one raw bird chili
I’m part Mexican but my step family is Thai so I grew up with both. I feel like the heat hits differently for them, so if you are ready for one you might not be ready for the other.
working as a dishwasher at a thai restaurant i will never forget they had the food processor for the chile powder in the dish room and whenever they ran it i had to physically leave the kitchen for a good 15min because i couldnt breathe... theyre not messing around
Exact story happened to me.
I was actually in Thailand and thought I could handle it. I cried 😂
There was a Thai place I went to for a while and I'd always tell the cashier I wanted my noodles very spicy. At first she was just giving me the white people level of spicy, but little did I know she was slowly raising the level every time I showed up. After like the fifteenth time I got noodles there I realized what was going on because I was just crying over the damn take out box like. "Why would you do this to me? It hurts but I love pad thai too much to stop eating it."
That is so nice of her to slowly rising it instead of just very spicy that u couldnt eat it
🤣🤣🤣🤣 don't stop. It's delicious!!!
I think she saw a pontential in you so she just secretly train you lol
Authentic pad Thai isn't even suppose to be spicy though. Pad Thai is a sweet dish with a hint of sourness from tamerine and add on dry chilli flakes if you want.
lmfao the reason I followed is bc her content just gets funnier
"I can handle spicy 😇"
"ThEy're TrYing tO kiLl mE 💀"
I'm sorry but your "they're trying to kill me" at the end gets me every time
I had a roommate in college who was Thai. He was good at cooking all sorts of foods, including Thai of course. One day I tried a portion that he made to his liking (he made mine pretty mild) and I was coughing so much he was about to call for an ambulance!
I don't think I'll ever have the tolerance to spice he does, but he did teach me a lot about cooking and some tips to handle spicy food.
You have to be raised from little to tolerate that level of spice.
dont be shy give us the tips
When we went to Thailand for the first time our guide warned us that there's a huuuge difference between european spicy and thai spicy and to be careful. I learned the hard way but dang it was so delicious!
I can still feel the burn on my lips from authentic Thai food…
How aren’t all Thai people dead by 35 from stomach cancer? How tough are their intestines?
@@bingobongo1615They start eating spicy since theyre young. Thai spicy food is also something else. Its spicy, yet very addicting and truly delicious. You are in pain but you cant stop eating.
@@bingobongo1615 As the comment above said, many things contain chili here and we started when we were young, kinda like how Europeans has more tolerance to lactose.
My friend is Filipino and got the highest spice level at a Thai place going “I can handle it, I love spice, I cook with spice all the time”….lets just say we still tease him for that decision and the inevitable reaction😆
"I can handle spicy food!"
*famous last words*
I'm Thai and I can't handle Thai level spicy lol
I had a guy come in to the thai restaurant i work at and was the last customer to leave because he took an hour to finish his food. He came in and asked us what is the hottest dish we had and proceeded to order it and asked it to be as authentic as possible. That was a jungle curry, we came back and he was crying and downing his water. But kudos to him for finishing it
💀”They’re trying to kill me”💀
as a Cambodian with a dad that stayed in thailand for 15 years.. i can relate when it comes to spice level in my food (i made a bad choice saying i wanted spicy spicy on my food)
This is hilarious. They be making those peppers look delicious I tried it one time I almost died lmao
Never mess with thai food 😂
@@uyenninh 🤣
my thai grandma likes to feed me but sometimes i think she's secretly trying to kill me one chili pepper at a time 😭
I remember ordering Tom Kah Kai (spicy soup) in Thailand, I can hold my spicy food pretty well and I was perfectly fine until I started munching on the “green bean” that was floating around in it……….😭😭😩
The kitchen staff had a good laugh I can imagine 🥲
The moment when you mistake something to not be a chili in Thailand is the moment you die of tongue burn. Trust me.
The way she curtains her hair when she says “I can handle spicy foods” and then 2 seconds later! Haha
Yup. Went on a first date once and we got Thai. I thought I had a high spice tolerance until I asked for a maximum spice level. Literally couldn't even speak and ended up looking stupid 😂
My Ex-bf was from Asia and literally did the same. Wanted to look macho and ordered spicy green curry. Ended up sneezing, snifffling, tearing the whole date. I still found him adorable. His flatmates Apparently laughed at him all night when he told them. 😅
Are you me? I flew across the country to meet someone off of Omegle, we went to a Thai fusion place on a first date, and they had some curried wings that came in varying spice levels. Anyway, being 19 at the time and overly confident, I coolely asked for the hottest wing on the menu. The waitress confirmed 3 times that I, in fact, wanted the hottest - and I, being an idiot, said "Oh yes - spice ain't no thing for me" - Dude, my eyes were watering, raccoon mascara/eyeliner, snot dripping, I couldn't speak, or anything. It was so embarrassing.
@@rilessmiles6590 LOL the waitress asked me three times as well.
the moment she says papaya salad, i know exactly what's gonna happen 😂😂
“They are trying to kill me “ GOT ME ROLLING ON THE FUCKING FLOOR LMAO 💀💀
German-viet here. This was literally exactly the same situation + reaction I had when eating Thai food for the first time. Ironically I also ordered the papaya salad 🤣
lol, this is so funny and relatable.
I'm Thai-Chinese and my level is considered weak within TH. When I was in Germany and I cooked for my friends for the first time, everyone almost died from the chili... including my Indian and Mexican friends.
Different Indians handle different spice levels.
I am a Rajasthani and tourists from neighboring state bitch about how spicy our food is. I am like "That's city food, supposed to be tolerable to tourists. The real village food is 10x spicy"
Brits be like after trying something with a speck of seasoning
I ate Thai chips (hottest flavor) and it was so spicy that the spice tasted like burnt crisp.
Why girl? You have diagnosed DST (Decrease in spice tolerance), you must be more careful! 🌶🌶🌶😱
This was at the time when my diagnosis was still undetected 🥲
@@uyenninh 🤣👍
Nah man, Thai spicy is just another level.
I'll never forget the first time I had Thai food and asked for three stars heat because that's how I ordered Chinese food. I had the same reaction as in this video! My brother asked me "are you okay?"
The moment you put the hair behind your hair 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂 HAHAHAHAHA thats always me because I think I can handle spicy food too HAHAHAHAHAHA
When I was in Thailand, our group got served some super fragrant-smelling white curry dish (it looked like Tom Kha soup, but in curry form). It looked so innocent! It was the spiciest food I have ever eaten. I loved it though, and now I can handle very high levels of spice!
It must be Tom Khaa Kai, I guess.. original thai spicy not adapted version.
I'm Indian and i live on the west coast. The daily staple here is fish curry, it's been like that since 6th century. Fish curry is supposed to be tangy not spicy, fish curry should be anything but spicy.
I worked in a Thai restaurant. The heat scale was 1-4 and one American customer would always come in and order a 6 and eat it with no problem. My eyes would water bringing it out😂
Well in Thailand, if it ain't killing you, it ain't good XD
ooh I had the same experience once when I ordered "Indian spicy". The server, the manager and the cook showed up at the table to check if I am still alive. Food was good though.
Thai spicy is so painful but so yummy 😭 whenever my family cooks they’re always like, “no no it’s not that spicy,” and then I burn my tongue off! But I always come back because it’s so delicious…
Thai is yummy, but I like vietnamese more. Vietnamese & japanese are my favourite asian cuisines. And indian, counting it.
Those three and french are the 4 best foods in the world (except french breakfast, which is horrible.. 😵)
Me as a German living in thailand : 100% correct
Your name is badass!
We went to a Thai restaurant in Bangkok. Have had Thai food a few times but this food was next level spicy. Said the same thing to my wife "are they trying to kill me!?!" I actually got heat blisters on my tongue
Thai spice is so gooooooddddddd I always tell em make it EXTRA spicy and they don't hold back.
Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me a while back. Her mom (thai) works in a restaurant and a couple ordered spicey food. The boyfriend wanted the REAL spicey version despite her trying to explain to him it won't be enjoyable for him. But he wouldn't listen and bragged how he could handle it, so she went all out on him. ;)
In the end he sat there crying his eyeballs out and the mom was rather satisfied with herself for being right in the end. 😂😂
I'd laugh too. Some people just don't listen.🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@maine3666
Yeah it was well deserved 💩
Haha omg I'm from the Netherlands where everything is bland, even 'spicy' products in the store are not spicy at all. We tend to ask for 'German level spicy' because the Germans do make a mean spicy curry wurst! I also love Indian, Thai and Vietnamese food, my best friend and I always get the spiciest dish at restaurants and often get asked if we're REALLY sure :p They always compliment us when we eat the food without dying :p
Lol. Nothing mean spicy about a german curryworst though. It's almost sweet.
@@sabinesteil4690 I guess they make different currywurst at a stall in Kleve, lol. We always go there and they always ask us if we're sure we want the Feuer version :p
Oh I live near Kleve 😁
@@evabakkerI'm German and Feuer version sounds like an extra spicy one, but I'm sure it's still nothing compared to the spicy-levels in Thailand or even India or Mexico.
Hahahahaha! "Goed gedaan! Jullie leven nog 🤝🏾 !” Wat grappig (': !
Lmao Im from Thailand and its true XD
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Chinese, grew up eating Szechuan and Guizhou cooking. Medium thai spicy is my max
Once in a tiny Thai-Restaurant they threw something so spicy in the frying pan in the open-door kitchen that from the smell only I had to cough repeatedly and got watery eyes.
Maybe basil?
They were probably making chili paste from scratch.
Ah, the good old fried dried chilli.
Probably ka prao
Ah yes, frying chili aka why is the air spicy?
I was in Mongolia with a thai colleague and we would only eat at Korean or Indian restaurant because the local Mongolian food would not be spicy enough, we would always say please make it max spicy and sometimes cook would come and ask are you sure 😂😂
I had pad Thai in Vietnamese restaurant he asked how spicy I said as spicy as you can make it but just in case 8/10. My stomach didn’t do well the next morning 😂
man Pad Thai is considered not spicy touristy food in Thailand lol
Hahahaha.. How I feel when I eat Thai food in Stockholm. It is mostly too sweet for me and when we found a real authentic Thai place, the spice level was killing me.. We enjoyed the food but my family and I were almost in tears at the end of the meal. It's always a case of two extremes..
Whats the name of the authentic place in Stockholm? :3
@@binkao2938 Thai House Wok at Olivecronas Väg 20 but the last time I went was in 2017. Rayavadee Royal Thai Cuisine at Olofsgatan 6 is also pretty good. Went there in 2019.
@@cuclainne Ah thank you! Thai House Wok is a franchise so if you mean the same one I've tried it, but at other locations. I don't like it that much x'D I used to go a lot to Koh Phangan on Södermalm, and also ThaiBoat on Södermalm. Most recently I started going to Waan Thai in Vasastan. I don't know how they compare to thai food in Thailand, but they are the tastiest I've tried here so far :) I'll check out your other recommendation. Thank you
@@binkao2938 thanks for letting me know about the other thai food places. Will hit them up when I go to Stockholm the next time. We don't live in Sweden, we just fly back to visit family and friends.
As a half Thai person who grew up with Thai spicy food. Never underestimate the power of Thai Spicy.
Born in an Indian family, , chillis are daily spices here,
I would like to compete with Indian spice level mainly we are used to red chilli flavors so
Idk , If i will win Cos i am a medium spice lover though😂, but want to taste thai food
U give me general idea tho, what kind of spices u ppl use in ur meals
hi brother...
try spicy food from Gulbarga or Bijapur, karnatka State, India....
they eat too much slicy food....
no 1in world ..
Try Byadgi Red chilli or Guntur Red chilli.... they are very hot chilli
Only Thai spicy - that I say as German guy! 😂 It is so lovely good food!
My mom, (a white American woman born in El Paso mind you) is immune to spicy food. She loves going to Thai places and she always orders the maximum level of spicy food. And usually she’s disappointed that it’s not spicy enough.
Meanwhile I take a bite the size of a teaspoon and I’m hacking and coughing on the floor for 15 minutes.😅
Anyone else have that issue where they’ll just keep eating because the joy the taste so much that their brain is just like “it’s worth the pain”?
I’ll literally be bawling but still eating because food is soo good.
Same with me. I'm soaked with sweat, my eyes are watering, I'm guzzling water/yogurt, and my brain just screams for more.
If it's only mild tongue burn or runny nose, then I'll continue eating since I'm not particularly in pain. But if it's any more than that, it's too spicy for me to enjoy the food.
Spicy food tolerance is like going to the gym, you have to build it up over time.
😂 So relatable I did the same thing as a latina. I had to finish it no matter what because if I didn't I would have felt guilty. 😭😭😭
Bro this is the most accurate thing ever 😂 I thought I liked spicy shit. Then I met Thailand level spicy. Lol
Lol 😆 this reminds me of my uni days living in the dormitory for foreign exchange students. We had a Vietnamese, a Thai, a Korean, and an Indian prepare dinner for the group. They all accuse each other of not being able to handle spicy food. In the end, all Asians had to bow to the Indian food. 🤣
Indian food is the most spicy? That's unexpected....
Indians are Asian too though?
Lol
Lol the funny thing is im Indian but i cant habdle spicy food
@Sofia yes, because India has certain chilli peppers that are the spiciest. Most Indian dishes are not that spicy compared to Thai or Korean food, but when India does spicy, it tops the rest
Hello, I’m from thailand so we have a surprise moment when western came to my country and order some Mussaman Curry
When they try it and complain about it too spicy from Thais perspective this curry is the way too sweet and too much oil 😅
Want to try real thai food in Thailand to see spice level Thai food v/s Indian food
Well i am Indian , but I like medium spicy , too much spicy is not my thing (even if some indians eat it ) 🤣
The only spicy thing i can bear and love is 'Thecha' (paste) of red chilli
It's deadly spicy , but i have cravings for it
There's also one of green chilli, but i love red one more
I had mussaman curry once and i assumed all Thai food was gonna be coconutty and mild
My half Thai self is wondering how they even consider that spicy because even with my pretty low heat tolerance mussaman curry isn't that hot at all
@@manaspradhan8041Massamun is adapt from Persian Recipe to Thai version so its not spicey as Local Thai cuisine
I live in Kansas and love Chinese, and always order it extra spicy. Which it never is. The first time I had Thai food, I had no clue. I was Thai innocent. I ordered extra spicy. The server asked, "are you sure?" I still didn't get the hint, and just said, "yes, I love spicy food." I should have listened. I've never experienced such pain. The server and I both had tears - me from pain, her from laughing so hard. It was so hot I was hallucinating. OMG I have respect for Thai folks.
Thai spicy is LETHAL. I learned that one the hard way… but the food was so good I’d hang out with my Thai friends and let them try to uNaLiVe me with their amazing food every week. 🤣
Living in Thailand, I always say "not spicy please" then they will say "little bit" and I'm like "little bit spicy for Thai, but for non-Thai it's already super spicy"😂
I like papaya salad very much 😊
We Thais can’t wrap our heads around papaya salad not being spicy!! It’s like if you asked for cereal with water instead of milk. Unfathomable lol
@@ChiliCrisp88 😅😅😅 maybe the longer we stay in TH I'll grow into the ability to eat "little bit spicy"
@@ellamayabanto9776 you got this!! Baby steps🥰
I can confirm this. I am a Vietnamese and lived in Thailand for two plus years. Some of the Thai foods are extremely spicy for the Vietnamese's taste...
My dad, a filipino like me, worked in an oil rig in the gulf of thailand. He never liked spicy food before working there but now that he's retired, he needs to add chili in all his foods because his palette has been conditioned to like spicy food 😂
I’m Thai and I think she should get an award for the best Thai restaurant
‘ there trying to kill me ‘
Nope that got me- 💀
I thought the same because I am Mexican-American. Boy was I wrong 😅
I feel this I didn't understand spicy is different depending on the chillies too like I can't hand Mexican spicy (I can eat it but I get migraines), but I can handle Indian spicy to a degree (because their chillies tend to be mild at first but build up as you eat more bites), but I order Thai mild and that's my maximum tolerance 😂
Idk man, I went to a Thai place with my friends and my black friend ordered it at level 5 (the max), so me (also black) felt obligated to do the same. I could barely taste the spice it was kinda mild tbh
@@YourMom-wi5to but you didn’t order it a Thai 5. Usually when their scale is max 5, I will order 10, that’s more like a Thai level 5.
@user go to a different Thai restaurant, instead of the same one
Filled with chutzpah, I went to a Thai restaurant and asked that they make it as spicy as they can. Well, needless to say, I was humbled. After one bite, my stomach seized with the spiciness. And after I brought it home and tried to eat it two days later, it was STILL way too spicy to eat. I ultimately had to throw it out because I just couldn't handle. Yeah, I failed!!!!
I'm 1/2 Vietnamese and I grew up in Thailand so I LOVE Thai Hot. Unfortunately, as I get older my taste buds still love the taste but my insides can no longer handle it. So, it's a tough decision at every meal.
The hair tuck when she said she can handle spicy like QUEEEENNNNN!!!!!!
Southern of Thailand can eat much more and more spicy than the center of Thailand, so be careful ! Even some Thai people can’t handle that😂