Anything from Naung Mai ordered "Thai Hot"

You're right, it is no more...it was actually on Huntington Ave in BOS close to NU. I remember the oily, persistent quality of the burn until the endorphins kicked in and from then on, it was pure pleasure. And the ginger ice cream for dessert was a welcome relief!

And to a previous poster, East Coast Grill in Cambridge still does Hell Nights for all the chile-heads out there.

One of these days I'm gonna trek out to Hatch NM, the epicenter of the US chile universe...I would so love to be able to fly a sackful of roasted chiles home.

Holy cr#p that was a long time ago. I remember that they had a
sambal that was amazing.

The Hatch Chile festival is going on right now at my local grocer, Central Market. they purchase a bunch of the chiles and bring them to Houston for sale in the market. They will roast them on site for you too, it you want. They will also make a bunch of special products during this time for purchase, such as sausages with hatch chiles, cheese with hatch chiles, etc.

I'd love to go to Hatch and see all the festivities they have there. I bet it's a lot of fun.

Love this time of year at CM... some of my favorites from last year were the breads with chiles (the cornbread was great), my regular weekly CM staple 'green chile chicken soup' with Hatches, and Hatches on the burgers at our regular Thursday-Saturday night Burgers-n-Bock on the CM patio.

Mmmmm... know where I need to go tomorrow!

Mrs. Milepig and I were just reminiscing last night about a meal we had at a hole in the wall Thai restaurant on the Big Island of Hawaii - Kona to be exact.

We found it in some guidebook, and drove into the middle of an industrial park to find this rather cute place next to a tire (or maybe a muffler) shop. We were asked "how hot, 1-10" and being that we both have cast iron tongues we went for "9". Well, we finished but I was tasting it for days and I'm pretty sure I lost a layer or two of skin off the inside of my mouth and throat. BTW - it was utterly delicious.

Yeah, I consider Keos about a level 1 on a ten point scale of spicy and I am not really a big spicy food eater.

If you go to the McDonalds in Hatch or NM you cn order Cheeseburgers with Hatch green chiles on your cheeseburger, Yummy! the spiciest thing i've ever eaten at a McDonalds. Not that I eat there very often:p

Siamese Basil
 

I used to eat at Siamese Basil in Encinitas. terrific food and as spicy as you want it. I could never go higher than 5 but a Filipino friend of mine wanted his a 10. The staff refused and eventually the chef came out. My buddy insisted and his dish eventually came. He must have sweat off at least 10 pounds that night but he ate the whole thing. He even became friends with chef and he was the only person they ever made a 10 for.

I think their hottest is called "Blazin" now...

I think I have tried the hottest sauce at BW3..wasn't it called 3 mile island? The server made us try a sample of the sauce before we could order..it was burning hot, but good.

Yeah, and the identification sticker they put on those wings doubles as a warning label...

Mine was the one that caused me to start the other thread... General Tso's Chicken, ordered extra spicy, in Cumberland, MD. Next time, just regular spice.

Yes, back in the 70s they had a $2 lunch special. As a poor NEC student I had to think twice about spending that much money (hey, a cup of coffee was what, $.35?) but it was worth it for the memory.

Slightly OT, last summer a fanatic chili-head gave me a home-grown bhut jolokia pepper -- that's 1,000,000 (one million) Scoville units. Infused in a half liter of white wine vinegar it made an awesome liquid heat source.

What was the name of that thick yellow hot sauce from East Coast Grill? I remember liking the copy on the bottle better than the sauce itself.

Inner Beauty. They still serve it on site, though it's seriously dumbed
down from back in those days. A friend and I went through a half
bottle of the stuff at ECG not too long ago.

What did you study at NEC? I had dinner with Gunther a couple months ago.