Now that I spend most of my work days in Monterey, where the food is good, but shall we say mild, I find myself making up for lost time on the weekends.
El Yucateco XXXL hot sauce in.. POTATO SALAD! Everything! When I get home :)
Not quite at the hot sauce in my pocket stage, but soon
Eating here feels like the inversion of how I’ve eaten most of my life.
Back in Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand, everything was spicy by default and you had to go out of your way to eat un-spicy foods and cuisines
Here, I have to add spicy to almost everything
Still haven’t adjusted. Some days if I go for more than 3 days without a capsaicin hit to my brain that is strong enough to notice, I get very very sad
Possibly also why I default to eating Mexican food when I eat out here. Most Mexican cuisines taste close to what I like to eat. I still have to add a ton of hot sauce. Thankfully I live very close to the two Thai places in SF that do ‘thai spicy’ by default (unlike everywhere else) so I don’t even have to ask. Or I order in Thai to really bump it up.
Hot take: Eating not spicy food as a person who prefers spicy food is just as painful as eating spicy food for someone who doesn’t like it
@pagrus I’d qualify it by saying that’s for cuisines that are supposed to be spicy. dishes that are toned down are just very annoying and I’d rather not eat them
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I get it, spicy by default is normal here too, even if it's just throwing crushed red pepper in to things. the one exception might be the flamin hot mountain dew I tried, I don't think the world is ready
@pagrus supper and breakfast and 3am food (too late for supper? But still a meal) in Malaysia is spicy by default
I need that
Not just one thing but like everything
I’m glad I can get spicy stuff here but not the same
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io oh hell yeah, I made a passable salsa ranchera, it's not even all that spicy but I am pretty excited for tofu ranchero this week