/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I've got a story

>Go to my favorite Thai restaurant for my birthday
>This place has 4 levels of heat they add to their dishes, the highest being "Thai National" level on the 4th
>Often have gotten a "5 pepper", one above the hottest, and eaten without difficulty
>Decide that I'll test my limits, get a 6 pepper Panang curry, with a big Thai tea to wash it down
>It's like molten fucking lava
>Quickly begin shaking, sweating, and crying, but still manage to carry on conversation with friends and family
>Eventually not able to speak
>Have to have my parents ask the waiter to bring some water, Thai tea is long depleted
>By some intervention of providence I finish it
>Family worried, we go back to my parent's house for cake and coffee
>On the car ride home I start feeling better, though I still am shaking a bit and the dreaded heat hiccups come on

Overall, a fun night was had. But that's definitely the hottest thing I've ever put into my mouth, and was not enjoyable in the slightest. I've since returned to the 5 and 4 levels. They grow their own Bird's Eye chilis, so they must've put some particularly hot ones in that curry or something, because it was utterly dreadful heat.