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[peony]

i think the spiciest dish i've eaten in korea has to be ��������, the super red one where they give you soybrean sprouts and a bowl of rice to eat with it
�ȵ���� is not as spicy but its got nice heat
û����� is a killer eaten raw, especially as you move towards the stem, seeds, i have to remind myself not to touch my face or rub my eyes when eating them (side note, i knew a guy who forgot to wash his hands and went to pee and let me tell you, he suffered bad that day!)
���κ�� in a restaurant that has the option '���ָʰ�' is pretty spicy too

[JongnoGuru]

They're easy to grow, and the bright reds are pleasing to look at.

Years ago, right after Korea joined the OECD, there were all sorts of "How do we rank against other OECD members?" themed talk-shows on TV & radio here. One of them focused on Korea's high incidence of stomach cancer, and the assembled panel of TV "experts" were tossing around likely culprits for this: alcohol, diet, work-related stress, etc.

On the panel was the head of the Cranky & Embittered Korean Housewives Association. (Anyone living here then will know immediately who I mean. Sharp -- almost skeletal -- facial features, glasses, gaunt, looked somewhat man-like. Her.) She had her panties in the usual knot, this time because some university researchers had suggested that diet (the woman's look-to in Korea) was largely to blame.

They focused primarily on gochu and specifically the way Koreans prepare and eat it. My Korean comprehension was very limited at the time, but from what I could pick up, it seems that the thin, transparent film on the peppers (not sprayed-on chemicals, but a natural part of the pepper itself) is indigestible. (Or so it was claimed.) After years and years of eating gochu "as is" (just washing, no boiling, no scouring or scarring of the skin) the average Korean would have a massive build-up of this compound in their stomach, and that's what accounts for the world-beating rate of stomach cancer.

Why don't other countries where gochu is eaten also have such high stomach cancer rates? Well, some of them do have higher-than average rates, but no people eat as much of the typical Korean type of gochu (and without scarring, boiling or otherwise removing the transparent "skin") as do the Koreans. This information did NOT go down well with the housewives, on the panel or in the audience. Very faces all around.

Two days after the programme aired, the bodies of two SNU profs were found buried alive under three tonnes of fertiliser behind the National Federation of Agriculture Cooperatives regional headquarters in Gyeonggi-do. Or maybe not.

A friend of mine who worked at a pub used to tell me that maraschino cherries were the most cancerous food on the planet, because our stomachs cannot breakdown and digest them. Of course, he was often eating them by the handful as he was telling me this. Actually, he said lots of things that I later came to doubt. Like three times I dropped in he said I should have been by an hour, or 30 min. or 15 min. earlier, because Madness was in having pint. He had me believing him the first two times.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[Homer]

[billinkorea]

I hate it!

Ohh you mean this is spicy food well i like your fake chillis
I like most korean food(dont get me started on tofu) but i cant eat hot mexican or indian!
Im sure its been stated again and again but korean should be nobodys standard for spicy food

OK i didnt read the thread!!