Originally Posted by
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I found Indian food in India to, generally, not be nearly as spicy as the Americans make it. (Note: I have only been in northern India - Mumbai and north)
It depends.
In the US I can get Veg. Korma "spicy" and "super spicy". In India people treated me like an idiot if I asked for Korma spicy because they, generally, didn't believe it to be a spicy dish. On other occasions spicy dishes were served
spicy of a very, very hot nature. I've been told on numerous occaisons default for white looking people is mild. Very mild because we all look alike
Even on the trains one gets peanuts served with hot chiles.