How do I tell the Asian restaurant to make spicy food?

[Himu]

I’ll order some food and I can’t feel a thing.

Seems I might have to only visit Thai restaurants now

[HardcoreRetro]

Give this a try.

[nachobro]

just say "extra spicy" when you order

[Himu]

I say extra spicy. I can’t feel shit man

[nachobro]

maybe add on "not white people spicy" or just ask for a side of chile garlic sauce. that's the good shit.

[Himu]

Give this a try.

This is racism!!

[HardcoreRetro]

You might be having a stroke.

[nachobro]

but you are right that thai places will almost always bring the heat

[Himu]

maybe add on "not white people spicy" or just ask for a side of chile garlic sauce. that's the good shit.

Bro I put chili garlic in everything I make.

That shit is just sauce now. They gave me this cup full of supposedly spicy shit and I tried it and I was,”that’s tangy, not spicy tho” and the waitress was shocked

[team filler]

tell them you want asian spicy

[nachobro]

the thai place by me has "spicy" "new mexican spicy" and "thai spicy" as options. theres a level above thai spicy i asked for and it's basically inedible.

[Himu]

Bro I just eat the food even though it’s not spicy because I want to be polite and not like an old man sending back a soup at a deli

[Himu]

You might be having a stroke.

It is racist though. I don’t like racism against some Asians just because they don’t speak English

[HardcoreRetro]

I can’t feel shit man.

You might be having a stroke.

^ the joke.

[Himu]

Oh. Well maybe more spicy food is the cure?

[porkbun]

maybe add on "not white people spicy" or just ask for a side of chile garlic sauce. that's the good shit.

Pretty much this.  I regularly tell restaurants around here "not Minnesota spicy" or when I'm traveling "not white people spicy".  None of the Asian or Latino restaurants give a shit, in fact most times, they'll recommend different spices.  Black (barbecue) will still hesitate unless I'm a regular, then I just tell them to put the hot sauce on the side. 

[Great Rumbler]

Asian spices 

[thisismyusername]

Tell them you want your brown eye(s) to cry. That should do it.

[team filler]

when that spicy digests and hits your prostate 

[benjipwns]

Yeah, they won't get offended if you tell them you mean the real spicy. Especially if you are/become a regular.

They're just afraid of some cac making a mistake then bitching about it, for similar reasons, that's why the back half of the menus are never in English to stop some cac from ordering off it not knowing it's actual Chinese food, not Chinese-American food.

Once they know you're cool they won't give you any trouble. "On the side" is a good way to ease your way in.

I do agree with porkbun that black places will be more leery of this than immigrant places though. There was a creole place in the city a decade or so ago that me and another cac friend would go to, they only made two dishes a day so there were no real choices outside of that and we'd always get stares from the customers when we went in until the woman started saying "hi boys" and signaling to them it was okay when we came in.

[Himu]

I’m black tho not a cac

[benjipwns]

Blacks might as well be cacs to Asian immigrants.

[team filler]

 

[OnlyRegret]

Blacks might as well be cacs to Asian immigrants.

greyscale skin people
 

[thetylerrob]

This is why I order Indian online and put my name as Danesh.

[tiesto]

Blacks might as well be cacs to Asian immigrants.

There's a slight difference. Whites don't spice their food at all and black people laugh at them, which is funny to asian immigrants watching usa black people toss store bought pre-mixed lemon pepper seasoning and hot sauce as if its some huge culinary flex.


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Depends on the whites, Italians use a lot of spice (as well as Greek, Hungarian, Spanish, French). Not spicing food seems to be more of a northern European thing, not just a generalized white thing...

[OnlyRegret]

Blacks might as well be cacs to Asian immigrants.

There's a slight difference. Whites don't spice their food at all and black people laugh at them, which is funny to asian immigrants watching usa black people toss store bought pre-mixed lemon pepper seasoning and hot sauce as if its some huge culinary flex.


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Depends on the whites, Italians use a lot of spice (as well as Greek, Hungarian, Spanish, French). Not spicing food seems to be more of a northern European thing, not just a generalized white thing...

I can't help but note that Benjamin Franklin considered all those as not being white people

[Himu]

This is why I order Indian online and put my name as Danesh.

NEWSFEED

[OnlyRegret]

Depends on the whites, Italians use a lot of spice (as well as Greek, Hungarian, Spanish, French). Not spicing food seems to be more of a northern European thing, not just a generalized white thing...

That was (sort of) my point. Everyone's wrong and people all over the world season food in different and good ways.

My dad used to be just like that, "white people food is so bland", hence the joke, but he just grew to realize it's different.

It's just silly when black people drag whites for not seasoning food, when they clearly do.

it's just anglo """cuisine""" that needs to be laughed at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

[Himu]

Depends on the whites, Italians use a lot of spice (as well as Greek, Hungarian, Spanish, French). Not spicing food seems to be more of a northern European thing, not just a generalized white thing...

That was (sort of) my point. Everyone's wrong and people all over the world season food in different and good ways.

My dad used to be just like that, "white people food is so bland", hence the joke, but he just grew to realize it's different.

It's just silly when black people drag whites for not seasoning food, when they clearly do.

Black people are like that because we over-season food with salt and sugar which is why so many black people while proud of their “seasoned food” also did young to heart disease and have feet cut off due to beetus

[Himu]

This is why I order Indian online and put my name as Danesh.

Real talk this post been making me laugh for hours. Laughed out loud when I read it, laughed out loud every time I thought of it while working. Lmao

[Momo]

Thai? Vietnamese? Chinese? Japanese? Korean? They all spice differently

[Don Rumata]

This thread has me confused.

Are we using spice/spicy and seasoned interchangeably? I don't care for super spicy food (i like a little spice, not to the point where it covers the actual taste), but i don't see how that relates to using other kinds of spice/seasoning.
Maybe i'm losing something in translation here.

[HardcoreRetro]

She's talking about food that brings the heat.

[Himu]

This thread has me confused.

Are we using spice/spicy and seasoned interchangeably? I don't care for super spicy food (i like a little spice, not to the point where it covers the actual taste), but i don't see how that relates to using other kinds of spice/seasoning.
Maybe i'm losing something in translation here.

Food that’s spicy as fuck man.

The seasoned topic just comes naturally. What Esch was saying is that black people tend to brag our shit is better seasoned than white peoples and that white people don't season their food. They also act like they can handle spicy food when their idea of spicy is usually just hot sauce. It’s related to different cultures seasoning differently and having different spice thresholds.

[thetylerrob]

This is why I order Indian online and put my name as Danesh.

Real talk this post been making me laugh for hours. Laughed out loud when I read it, laughed out loud every time I thought of it while working. Lmao

[Himu]

Don.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/8eizpn/why_do_other_races_think_white_people_dont_season/

Black folk then use this flex as it is means they can hang and handle spice - real spice.

[HardcoreRetro]

As a white person just turn it back around on them. You may have the spiciest food, but we had the spiciest slave trade. #Humblebrag

[Himu]

Someone explain why Britons are like this?

[Joe Molotov]

Someone explain why Britons are like this?

They don't want anything to mask the delicious flavor of sheep intestines.

[Don Rumata]

Tbh you also adapt to tastes over time, back and forth.
When on a diet a couple of years back, i used to eat veggies with almost no condiment (little to no oil, very little salt) and at first it tasted like shit, but over time i got used to it, and started to become more sensible to flavors.
Same goes for sugar on sweets and desserts.

[porkbun]

Depending on the vegetable, you may need very little in the way of seasoning.  I have a vegetable garden and I will eat most of the stuff from there plain and it has tons of flavor.  I think a lot of what people eat is so overprocessed that it becomes basically bland mush that you have to add a lot of salt, hot sauce, etc to get any sort of taste.  That's what happened to me.  I used to think Taco Bell was spicy (yeah yeah I know heresy) until I went to college and had to eat shit cafeteria/fast food all day every day.  At that point I learned about different condiments/spices and would bring them in to make the food at least edible.

A lot of "ethnic" food is basically cheap stuff that people have learned how to spice to make it taste like something other than wet veggies/tough meat.

[eleuin]

Thai? Vietnamese? Chinese? Japanese? Korean? They all spice differently

Trying to think of truly spicy jpn / krn I've had and coming up blank
In general SE asians have much spicier food than east asians with china the exception

[Himu]

I’m going to be honest.

I’m a weeb but Japanese food seems the worst of Asian food from my experience.

Pho > ramen for instance
Thai curry > Japanese curry
Vietnamese flan > mochi

Can keep going

The best Japanese food is sushi.

A lot of Japanese food is plain and boring.

[nachobro]

katsu curry and rice is pretty great tho

[tiesto]

Thai? Vietnamese? Chinese? Japanese? Korean? They all spice differently

Trying to think of truly spicy jpn / krn I've had and coming up blank
In general SE asians have much spicier food than east asians with china the exception

I've had some pretty spicy kimchi soup before, but not really any spicy Japanese food. Gochujang isn't super spicy but it's pretty flavorful.

[team filler]

tell them you want asian spicy

use your fingers to make your eyes slanty while you're asking 

[Himu]

katsu curry and rice is pretty great tho

I agree but i don’t think it’s top tied curry either.

[curly]

japanese food is great 

"spiciness" isn't even a real flavor, you're just a masochist

[Himu]

Japanese food is okay. I said nothing of its spiciness. But I haven’t seen any evidence Japanese food is better than Thai, Vietnamese, or Indian yet. Japanese food just seems better marketed. But hey maybe it tastes better on the west coast, Hawaii, and japan. I love sushi but that’s about it.

And spiciness is absolutely a flavor. It compliments flavor actually.

[curly]

Japanese food is okay. I said nothing of its spiciness. But I haven’t seen any evidence Japanese food is better than Thai, Vietnamese, or Indian yet. Japanese food just seems better marketed. But hey maybe it tastes better on the west coast, Hawaii, and japan. I love sushi but that’s about it.

And spiciness is absolutely a flavor. It compliments flavor actually.

https://owlcation.com/stem/Did-you-know-that-spicy-is-not-a-taste

[Himu]

Haven’t been to japan but looking forward to the food

[Himu]

Japanese food is okay. I said nothing of its spiciness. But I haven’t seen any evidence Japanese food is better than Thai, Vietnamese, or Indian yet. Japanese food just seems better marketed. But hey maybe it tastes better on the west coast, Hawaii, and japan. I love sushi but that’s about it.

And spiciness is absolutely a flavor. It compliments flavor actually.

https://owlcation.com/stem/Did-you-know-that-spicy-is-not-a-taste

Spicy compliments flavor. You’re just a fuddy duddy who can't handle the heat. Don’t blame me.

[curly]

Spiciness is fine but the quest to find ever higher levels is self-defeating.

[Himu]

Spiciness is fine but the quest to find ever higher levels is self-defeating.

It’s an addiction. I love the feel of spicy food.

If you don’t have the same urge, oh well.

[tiesto]

The food in Japan was definitely a big step up over the Japanese food in NY.

[Himu]

The strength of great Japanese food imo is not powerful spicing but intense care put into ingredient prep, cleanliness, and quality. That's why kaiseki, shojin ryori and sushi are best Japanese food to me, it takes that philosophy of insane attention to detail to a limit.  The more.... casual food isn't as interesting to me, though a lot of it's good too.

Yeah I like the formalized artistic nature of some Japanese food which is why I love sushi. Their more modern stuff doesn’t impress me. I do like matcha ice cream tho.

I’d like to try Melopan tbf.

My main issue with Japanese food is the modern popular stuff that are always hyped up. Like Ramune isn’t that good, neither is pocky, ramen, mochi. I just end up disappointed. I’m not even big on miso soup. It’s okay but I prefer the soup at my Vietnamese/Thai places. Their curry is okay but never leaves me wanting more.

[Himu]

Dude in my experience Vietnamese and Thai are extremely vegan friendly and I love them for that. Pho with tofu

[Raist]

Try this, replace knife by spice?

[Himu]

Getting bird’s eye chilies to grow