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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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 Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: I like it spicy, please help |
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I've been here four years, give or take. In that time I have consumed pretty much everything they can throw at me. The residual level of spice in the food here has destroyed what little immunity to chili hell I had. My wife and mother-in-law, bless them, have tryed dishing up all manner of hot Indonesian dishes, but to no avail. I'm having serious cravings for the kind of food that will turn my intestines into a writhing spasm of liquid poop.
To that end, I am wondering if someone could suggest somewhere I might go, a franchise that has a lava-arse inducing signature dish, or failing that, a recipe I might throw together myself. I know I am bound to do serious damage to my digestive system and leave my ringpiece looking like the Jap flag, but I am a freely consenting adult and am aware of what I am getting myself into. Thanks in advance. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Go to Shwings and try their Krazy Korean Wings. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Go to Shwings and try their Krazy Korean Wings. |
Been there and I wasn't overly impressed. Next. |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Isn't there a well known spicy chicken place in Itaewon? |
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Riddzy
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: London
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waltjocketty
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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Dakbal, or, failing that, check this out:
ltra-concentrated �16 Million Reserve� is the hottest science can make.
The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper and 8,000 times more fiery than Tabasco.
Diners must sign a disclaimer recommending �protective gloves and eye wear� � but even sweating testers in safety gear were blinded by tears for 30 minutes.
Just 999 bottles of it are on sale at �105 each.
Medical experts fear it could kill asthmatics or hospitalise a user who touches a sensitive part of the body afterwards.
It is made of pure capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers �hot�. It takes tons of peppers to make 1lb of capsaicin.
Creator Blair Lazar, 35, specialises in �extreme food� in New Jersey, US.
After trying it, he said: �It�s like having your tongue hit with a hammer. Man, it hurt.�
The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat measure, the Scoville Unit.
Reserve scores 16 million units, while a Red Savina, the world�s spiciest pepper, measures just 570,000. |
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red_dragon_canuck
Joined: 20 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| waltjocketty wrote: |
Dakbal, or, failing that, check this out:
ltra-concentrated �16 Million Reserve� is the hottest science can make.
The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper and 8,000 times more fiery than Tabasco.
Diners must sign a disclaimer recommending �protective gloves and eye wear� � but even sweating testers in safety gear were blinded by tears for 30 minutes.
Just 999 bottles of it are on sale at �105 each.
Medical experts fear it could kill asthmatics or hospitalise a user who touches a sensitive part of the body afterwards.
It is made of pure capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers �hot�. It takes tons of peppers to make 1lb of capsaicin.
Creator Blair Lazar, 35, specialises in �extreme food� in New Jersey, US.
After trying it, he said: �It�s like having your tongue hit with a hammer. Man, it hurt.�
The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat measure, the Scoville Unit.
Reserve scores 16 million units, while a Red Savina, the world�s spiciest pepper, measures just 570,000. |
You are right for the most part. Blair's 16 Million Reserve is pure capsicum crystals and yes it is the hottest substance known to man. You are wrong about the Red Savina being the hottest pepper in the world though. It is the hottest Habanero pepper in the world, while the hottest pepper in the world is said to be the Tepin pepper.
Any of the sauces or pure capsicum crystal products made by Blair are definitely guaranteed to release those endorphins in a hurry and give blisters on the tongue and possibly the anus  OP I agree with waltjocketty try any of Blair's hot sauces or pure capsicum products they're guaranteed to give you a run for your money. I've tried a couple of his sauces and damn were they ever hot.
If you're into taste as well as heat check out Melinda's Red Savina Habanero sauce it's 577,000 scoville units and has a damn good flavour. All of that company's sauces have a great flavour and good amount of heat.
Anyway, there's my two cents have fun with the endorphin rush and your
"Burning ring of fire." |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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The import cost of hot sauces to Korea is shocking.
I tried to order 6 different bottles and additives. Mohota won't deliver and the other company wanted $69 shipping on a 30 dollar package.
You could always order some habanero seeds off the internet and grow them yourself. Going to take time but at least it's something.
I have been making indian curries with the chillies here. They are rubbish (the chilli not my curry). A big handful of those really (or what the koreans call hot) hot chillies doesn't spice it up enough.
The international market in Itaeown had dried birds eye chillies which might work out but dried chillies just ain't the same. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| red_dragon_canuck wrote: |
| You are wrong about the Red Savina being the hottest pepper in the world though. It is the hottest Habanero pepper in the world, while the hottest pepper in the world is said to be the Tepin pepper. |
Negative. The bhut jolokia (or naga jolokia) was tested around 2001, 2002 and was found to be way hotter. |
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rockstarsmooth
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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there's a persian restaurant in daehangro that has some pretty hot stuff. they use a scale to let you choose how hot you want it. the scale goes to 4 i think, and the "foreigner" level is 2.5. 2.7 is 2x as hot as 2.5, and it keeps getting hotter. having had the 2.5, i can tell you it's moderately hot, but i can well imagine that it would be brutally hot if you got above 3.
now if i could just remember the name of the place...
rss 
 right now i'm listening to: michael franti and spearhead - one step closer to you |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
there's a persian restaurant in daehangro that has some pretty hot stuff. they use a scale to let you choose how hot you want it. the scale goes to 4 i think, and the "foreigner" level is 2.5. 2.7 is 2x as hot as 2.5, and it keeps getting hotter. having had the 2.5, i can tell you it's moderately hot, but i can well imagine that it would be brutally hot if you got above 3.
now if i could just remember the name of the place...
rss
right now i'm listening to: michael franti and spearhead - one step closer to you |
That's the place I was thinking of, but I thought the scale went to 10. The guy wears protective gear while he cooks it. No one has yet to order a 10. Would be funny to watch old Jaggy torture himself with that. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Further to the tales of the strength of concentrated capsaicin, although not in a food product. From Jane Leavey's Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (an excellent biography, btw):
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| Koufax used an old pitcher's salve called Capsolin, derived from red hot chili peppers grown in China. The active ingredient, capsaicin, works by depleting substance P, the brain's pain messenger. It is the medical equivalent of hitting your head against a brick wall. Players called it the "atomic balm": thick, gooey, relentless stuff which is no longer marketed in the United States. (Health food books provide homemade recipes.) Most pitchers diluted it with cold cream or Vaseline. Koufax used it straight, gobs of it. Nobe Kawano [the Dodgers clubhouse man] always made sure to wash his laundry separately. When the Dodgers donated a used jersey to a local Little League team, the lucky kid who got number 32 ran off the field screaming, "I'm on fire." He wasn't the only one. Lou Johnson [a Dodger teammate] wore one off Koufax's sweatshirts one cold night in Pittsburgh thinking it would keep him warm in left field. First he began to sweat. Then his skin blistered. Then he threw up. |
Thanks. Moderate heat's okay for me. |
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red_dragon_canuck
Joined: 20 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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[/quote]Negative. The bhut jolokia (or naga jolokia) was tested around 2001, 2002 and was found to be way hotter.[/quote]
I stand corrected. I haven't kept up with which pepper is the hottest I guess. Should have done my research to find out the most recent information. You are indeed correct, as I discovered upon googling that the bhut jolokia/naga jolokia is even recognized by Guiness World Book of Records as being the hottest pepper. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
there's a persian restaurant in daehangro that has some pretty hot stuff. they use a scale to let you choose how hot you want it. the scale goes to 4 i think, and the "foreigner" level is 2.5. 2.7 is 2x as hot as 2.5, and it keeps getting hotter. having had the 2.5, i can tell you it's moderately hot, but i can well imagine that it would be brutally hot if you got above 3.
now if i could just remember the name of the place...
rss
right now i'm listening to: michael franti and spearhead - one step closer to you |
That's the place I was thinking of, but I thought the scale went to 10. The guy wears protective gear while he cooks it. No one has yet to order a 10. Would be funny to watch old Jaggy torture himself with that. |
Isn't that place called "Persian Palace?" I've been there, had something around a 3 to 3.5 if I remember correctly. Anything over 4 and you have to consult your waiter. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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I'm awesome. Here you go:
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Iranian Restaurant � Persian Palace
 
Located in front of the entrance to Seonggyungwan University in Daehangno, the restaurant is owned by Mr. Shapour, who came to Korea in 1993 to study medicine at Hanyang University. He opened the restaurant in 2002 to promote Iranian cuisine where he does the cooking himself.
Most dishes are localized to suit Korean tastes. With the helpful advice of a Korean friend who acted as �taster,� Mr. Shapour slightly modified the recipes. The most popular dish is the whole chicken curry combo. A chicken is stuffed with various spices and boiled to remove any odor. Then, it is saut�ed lightly in oil and served with a pomegranate-sauce curry.
The restaurant also serves various types of curry rice. When ordering, you should choose how spicy you want it on a scale from 2.0 to 4.0 with 2.0 being �medium.� If you want to try genuine Iranian food, order the Shami kebab rice, a lamb dish seasoned with tomatoes and onions. The menus are available in both Korean and English.
Visitor Information
Business Hours : 12:00~22:00
Closed : No closing days
Information : +82-2-763-6050 (Korean, English) / www.persianpalace.com (Korean, English)
Menu : Chicken curry combo 23,000 won (for 2 persons), lamb curry rice 10,000 won, chicken curry rice 9,500 won, Persian fried rice (including a piece of chicken) 8,500 won, Shami kebab curry rice 11,000 won, Mast 3,500 won
How to Get There : Take Subway Line 4 to Hyehwa Station, and go out of exit 4. Take the street between Haagen-Dazs and Baskin Robbins and walk ahead for 100 meters (When you see a Y-shaped road half-way, take the street to the left). Walk ahead to the left and cross the street at the first crossing. Take the street between Burger King and SK Telecom until you reach the gate to Seonggyungwan University.
Opposite the gate, you will see �E� eyeglass shop. Take the street next to the shop and you will see the restaurant sign. From Hyehwa station, take a taxi (basic fare) to Sung Kyun Kwan University. |
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