Originally Posted by
kipper
I tried a new Chinese restaurant today, for take-out, and did what I normally do--ordered General Tso's Chicken, extra spicy. I usually can't get it spicy enough, but at this place, whoa! Any ideas on how to tone it down if it's too spicy?
Send it back. Say it's too spicy.
I hate spicy food-I usually order food
less or
not spicy. But if the food was too spicy (or somehow not to my liking), I wouldn't hesitate to send it back. I usually ask for the food without peppers or not spicy if I want something and it says that it's spicy. But the surest way to lose my business is if it didn't
indicate on the menu that it was spicy!
Normally when I order takeout I get something I
know I'll like. Ordering delivery is not a time to experiment with extra spicy, etc.
Learned that lesson when I bit into a piece of jalapeno on a pizza by mistake (I picked all of them off and forgot one)-I almost cried.
But then I mostly enjoy food that most will consider bland. I just like the subtlety of having something barely seasoned-and I usually try to get good, fresh ingredients so that I taste the ingredients, not the seasoning. My approach to seasoning is that seasonings are a tool to bring out the flavors of the ingredients in the dish-NOT the main event.
Getting off topic here, but anyway sugar helps. Milk helps. I usually just gargle.