Suicide chicken
November 6th, 2008Thai people’s sense of “fun” extends to pretending to shake up your can of soda (and accidentally doing so while miming it) and also to carefully judging your spice tolerance and then throwing in an extra handful of chillies, as the person who prepared my noodles today did when she thought I wasn’t paying attention. Next time someone asks, “Spicy OK?”, I’ll be a little less confident when saying Yes.
On a related note, I meant to record that China’s love of spice apparently extends to ice cream. While were were waiting at the Hope Star Cafe for Joel to arrive, we saw “Vanilla ice cream with spicy sauce” on offer. Reading the Japanese description gave us a clearer picture: “Vanilla ice cream in Tabasco sauce.”