Spiciest Restaurant/Meal in US
Aug 20, 2008 | 5:16 pm
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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.
Aug 20, 2008 | 11:08 pm
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Originally Posted by marais
You're right, it is no more...it was actually on Huntington Ave in BOS close to NU.
sambal that was amazing.
Aug 21, 2008 | 7:20 am
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I'd love to go to Hatch and see all the festivities they have there. I bet it's a lot of fun.
Aug 21, 2008 | 7:33 am
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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.
Mmmmm... know where I need to go tomorrow!
Aug 21, 2008 | 10:57 am
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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.
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.
Aug 21, 2008 | 1:02 pm
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Aug 21, 2008 | 1:36 pm
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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.
I'd love to go to Hatch and see all the festivities they have there. I bet it's a lot of fun.
Aug 21, 2008 | 4:47 pm
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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.
Aug 21, 2008 | 9:01 pm
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Aug 22, 2008 | 1:35 am
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Aug 22, 2008 | 10:19 am
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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.
Aug 22, 2008 | 2:18 pm
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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.
Aug 22, 2008 | 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Fornebufox
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.
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.