Chinese people

pat_cork · 14-08-2014 09:09PM #1

Twice over the last three weeks I've gotten Chinese takeaways from two different restaurants and both times I asked them for chicken with the hottest sauce that they have. Both times I didn't think that the sauce was hot at all. The people I was eating with tasted some of mine and agreed.

I can only think of two possible explanations; one is that Chinese people have a different perception of what tastes hot than to us Irish people and the other is that they gave me some sauce that they wanted to get rid of. I think the first is more plausible as surely they're going to want me to come back and buy more food from them and the fact that some of them have some enzyme different in their bodies which makes them intolerant of alcohol.

Has anyone experienced similar or can anyone offer another explanation please?

MadsL · 14-08-2014 09:10PM

Great bunch of lads!

biko · 14-08-2014 09:10PM

Maybe they didn't have hotter sauce?
Buy some and add yourself..

Or ask if they do dishes from Sichuan, Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou and Yunnan. These are the areas that are known for spicy food.

the_monkey · 14-08-2014 09:10PM

There a great bunch of lads

SouthTippBass · 14-08-2014 09:10PM

Don't say it. Don't anybody say it.

Edit: Already too late. You're getting too predictable boards.

the_monkey · 14-08-2014 09:11PM

MadsL wrote: »

Great bunch of lads!

ah f*ck ya beat me !!!!

Tail Docker · 14-08-2014 09:11PM

Maybe your "hot" sensor is broken?

Ted_YNWA · 14-08-2014 09:11PM

Why don't you complain to the takeaway that your meals were not to you satisfaction?

nobody told me · 14-08-2014 09:11PM

Sum ting Wong?

holystungun9 · 14-08-2014 09:12PM

I had some hot Chinese bird last weekend!!!

Actually you're on to something. That curry chicken was mild at best.:(

dd972 · 14-08-2014 09:12PM

Sounds like you meant to go to the Taj Mahal but ended up in Golden City instead OP! :P

pat_cork · 14-08-2014 09:13PM

biko wrote: »

Maybe they didn't have hotter sauce?
Buy some and add yourself..

They did in one anyway, one of the girls I was with got a green curry or something and it was fair hot.
Paying good money for a meal and adding my own sauce? **** that

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Why don't you complain to the takeaway that your meals were not to you satisfaction?

I was in a different part of the country both times and I'll probably never be in either of them again

rawn · 14-08-2014 09:15PM

pat_cork wrote: »

Twice over the last three weeks I've gotten Chinese takeaways from two different restaurants and both times I asked them for chicken with the hottest sauce that they have. Both times I didn't think that the sauce was hot at all. The people I was eating with tasted some of mine and agreed.

I can only think of two possible explanations; one is that Chinese people have a different perception of what tastes hot than to us Irish people and the other is that they gave me some sauce that they wanted to get rid of. I think the first is more plausible as surely they're going to want me to come back and buy more food from them and the fact that some of them have some enzyme different in their bodies which makes them intolerant of alcohol.

Has anyone experienced similar or can anyone offer another explanation please?

It was probably otter sauce.

kowloon · 14-08-2014 09:17PM

MadsL wrote: »

Great bunch of lads!

Complain all you want, you were all thinking it!

Nodin · 14-08-2014 09:19PM

pat_cork wrote: »

Twice over the last three weeks I've gotten Chinese takeaways from two different restaurants and both times I asked them for chicken with the hottest sauce that they have. Both times I didn't think that the sauce was hot at all. The people I was eating with tasted some of mine and agreed.

I can only think of two possible explanations; one is that Chinese people have a different perception of what tastes hot than to us Irish people and the other is that they gave me some sauce that they wanted to get rid of. I think the first is more plausible as surely they're going to want me to come back and buy more food from them and the fact that some of them have some enzyme different in their bodies which makes them intolerant of alcohol.

Has anyone experienced similar or can anyone offer another explanation please?

Maybe theres a specific name for the hotter sauces?

Help!!!! · 14-08-2014 09:19PM

Chinese food from take aways are not necessarily chilli hot unless you get Sichuan.....if you want hot curry go indian/bangli

dmc17 · 14-08-2014 09:28PM

Should've gone for an Indian. Ask them for the hottest sauce they have and you won't be disappointed.

Banjo String · 14-08-2014 09:33PM

Did you order from the Wicked Wok OP?

Flesh Gorden · 14-08-2014 10:55PM

Instead of their hottest curry, maybe they gave you the Cream of Sum Yung Guy

maurv1 · 14-08-2014 11:07PM

You should have said

我想醬會吹我他媽的頭腦！

not yet · 14-08-2014 11:13PM

Ask them are the Laundering money, you'll get all the heat you want right there...

Supercell · 14-08-2014 11:15PM

Unless you are ordering from the Chinese menu, you will be getting the Irish "hot", which generally means sweet and slightly spicy (compared to what Chinese people eat). Most Chinese restaurants I've been to with my wife have a separate Chinese language menu which caters for Chinese tastes.
I'm pretty sure when the person ordering is Chinese that they reduce the sugar and up the spiciness, that's what my wife says anyhow.

B.A._Baracus · 14-08-2014 11:18PM

Thread makes me want to have chicken balls.
Should I attempt to make myself?

EazyD · 14-08-2014 11:33PM

I've had plenty of spicy dishes both in Dublin and Hong Kong (gf and family originally from there). The majority of Irish people can't handle spicy, therefore the offerings at home are generally much milder/plain. If you want super-spicy in Dublin try Korean or Malay dishes.

Egginacup · 15-08-2014 03:39AM

pat_cork wrote: »

Twice over the last three weeks I've gotten Chinese takeaways from two different restaurants and both times I asked them for chicken with the hottest sauce that they have. Both times I didn't think that the sauce was hot at all. The people I was eating with tasted some of mine and agreed.

I can only think of two possible explanations; one is that Chinese people have a different perception of what tastes hot than to us Irish people and the other is that they gave me some sauce that they wanted to get rid of. I think the first is more plausible as surely they're going to want me to come back and buy more food from them and the fact that some of them have some enzyme different in their bodies which makes them intolerant of alcohol.

Has anyone experienced similar or can anyone offer another explanation please?

China, like Persia and Greece, was one of the greatest civilisations to grace the planet. For the last 20 centuries, China was the largest for 18 of those 20. China had to sleep after the Opium Wars and Britain became world leader for the 19th century and then America for the 20th.

The dragon is now coming back to claim top prize.

The Chinese have the most perfect language there is. Their adaptability from coal fired economy to quick cooked wood fired food in a wok is truly a marvel of societal evolution. Their re-emergence as the most powerful "Middle Kingdom" was inevitable....according to Napoleon Bonaparte.

So forgive them when they think that a bunch of paddies who were wiping their arses with dock leaves 100 years ago, think that "chicken balls" are Chinese food and that extra hot sauce makes you somehow urbane.

Cookie_Monster · 15-08-2014 03:42AM

Go to an Indian instead maybe??

creolebelle · 15-08-2014 04:33AM

Egginacup wrote: »

China, like Persia and Greece, was one of the greatest civilisations to grace the planet. For the last 20 centuries, China was the largest for 18 of those 20. China had to sleep after the Opium Wars and Britain became world leader for the 19th century and then America for the 20th.

The dragon is now coming back to claim top prize.

The Chinese have the most perfect language there is. Their adaptability from coal fired economy to quick cooked wood fired food in a wok is truly a marvel of societal evolution. Their re-emergence as the most powerful "Middle Kingdom" was inevitable....according to Napoleon Bonaparte.

So forgive them when they think that a bunch of paddies who were wiping their arses with dock leaves 100 years ago, think that "chicken balls" are Chinese food and that extra hot sauce makes you somehow urbane.

Oh my

SuperS54 · 15-08-2014 07:03AM

The majority of "Chinese" restaurants in Ireland are run by Vietnamese, higher end restaurants tend to be run by Hong Kongers, neither of which have particularly spicy food.

Add to that that most of the food served in "Chinese" restaurants is not actually Chinese style (that was a huge disappointment when I first moved to China and went looking for a chicken curry and chips after a feed of beer) and that spicy food is only traditional in certain areas of China...Go to Sichuan province and some dishes are so spicy that you would not be able to eat them, head over to Shanghai or most of northern China and they'll think you odd if you complain the food is not spicy enough.

As already pointed out, head to an Indian and you'll have more luck and they're generally a great bunch of lads.

Oranage2 · 15-08-2014 08:00AM

You'd be surprised but Chinese food in Ireland is better than chinese food in China.

Barely There · 15-08-2014 08:05AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

You'd be surprised but Chinese food in Ireland is better than chinese food in China.

'Chinese food' in Ireland is nothing like actual Chinese food and you've obviously not gone to the right places in China or have seriously deficient taste-buds if you consider the muck served up in the average Irish takeaway to be superior.
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Merrion · 15-08-2014 08:06AM

..and righteous men must make us bland,
an Asian once again.

*With profuse apologies to the Wolfe Tones

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