Originally Posted by
DeathSlam
This reminds me of an experience of a dish in a Sichuan restaurant on the far outskirts of Beijing (recommended by a local). Oh, that's pretty what are the green things? Peppers. The red things? Peppers. The white things? Peppers. And they added good handfuls of mouth numbing Sichuan pepper to presumably help with the experience. What happened to the fish is another story...
When they warned me, I just thought, "no sweat, have had spicy food all over the world." Well, had no idea and never occurred to me that "tongue numbing" was part of the experience.