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pat_cork

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?

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Chinese takeaway food is never spicy, it's never been known for it like Thai or Indian.

limitedIQ

:eek:

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?

professore

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.

If he's so smart, why didn't he think about the Russian winter then? Eh? Eh?

professore

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.

If he's so smart, why didn't he think about the Russian winter then? Eh? Eh?

Oranage2

Barely There wrote: »

'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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You've been to China?

Barely There

Oranage2 wrote: »

You've been to China?

No, but I've watched a lot of Kung Fu movies.

Oranage2

Barely There wrote: »

No, but I've watched a lot of Kung Fu movies.

There you go, that explains everything...

Barely There

I've spent 4 weeks traveling in China, ate everywhere from high-end restaurants in the major cities to local places in out of the way towns. Food varies enormously and it wouldn't be my favourite cuisine, but I'd much rather it to the bland ,generic, msg-laden stuff pumped out in an Irish 'Chinese' takeaway.

cloud493

Sure I saw an idiot abroad, I'm bringing my own food to china.

[Deleted User]

Only go to a Chinese restaurant rammed full of Chinese people.

drumswan

Barely There wrote: »

I've spent 4 weeks traveling in China, ate everywhere from high-end restaurants in the major cities to local places in out of the way towns. Food varies enormously and it wouldn't be my favourite cuisine, but I'd much rather it to the bland ,generic, msg-laden stuff pumped out in an Irish 'Chinese' takeaway.

There is MSG in practically all food in China too

ruthloss

Merrion wrote: »

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

*With profuse apologies to the Wolfe Tones

AudreyHepburn

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?

I'd imagine that's all it was.

First World problems eh!

yaboya1

On a trip to New York a few years back, the bus tour guide said that Chinese take-aways were introduced in California in the 1950's to get rid of the leftovers. I've never been to China, but I went to a few restaurants in Chinatown over there and the stuff on the menu there is nothing like what any take-away over here serves. I'd tend to believe that what the tour guide said was true.

Valetta

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

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

Definitely not.

That's what Mammies and Daddies are for.

Badly Drunk Boy

Merrion wrote: »

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

*With profuse apologies to the Wolfe Tones

How about Thomas Davis?

KungPao

I have never associated Chinese food (the "European" menus at least) with being muy caliente. You need to get yourself down to the Star of Bengal for a Ruby Murray or a mutton vindaloo.

bumper234

Next time ask for cream of sum yung goy you will be sorted.

How Soon Is Now

Money is the only English word they truly understand over here OP next time you want a bit of extra chilli mention your good friend "Euro".

[Deleted User]

The thing that always sunrises me that there are Chinese takeaways almost every where!, and its seem to be the same all over the world, I bet there are Chinese restaurant's busily working away in some remote places in Bhutan, Poland and Brazil, as we speak, getting on with it and not bothering anyone.

My husband thinks its all a ruse and some day a signal will come from China and all the Chinese in the Chinese restaurant's all over the world will rise up and take over the world. They are a sort of advanced army that has integrated with out anyone noticing.

HalloweenJack

pat_cork wrote: »

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?

harry Bailey esq

if you want really hot then Chinese food won't do it for you,try some Indian or Mexican,HOT HOT HOT

humanji

HalloweenJack wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

Apparently a large percentage of Chinese and Japanese people suffer from it.

BeerWolf

Majority run of the mill Chinese / Indian take aways are crap straight from the jar that has been 'attuned' to the general European taste.

You'd want to go to a proper restaurant if you want something done right.

If you want HOT, might I suggest the Thai restaurant in Ashbourne [ "LT Thai Cuisine" ] ? I love really spicy food, and when I asked for something hot... my god I was sweating bullets.

evolving_doors

maybe bring some chilli powder whereever you go OP, then if its not hot enough then sneak in to tge jacks for a few snorts.

Supercell

Oranage2 wrote: »

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

No, it isnt, not by a long long way. M&M of O Connell street is the only place that comes close in our experience.
If OP wants to try hot he should fly to China, go to a real Sichuan restaurant and order "Hot Pot", then welcome to the fires of hades!

How Soon Is Now

Supercell wrote: »

No, it isnt, not by a long long way. M&M of O Connell street is the only place that comes close in our experience.
If OP wants to try hot he should fly to China, go to a real Sichuan restaurant and order "Hot Pot", then welcome to the fires of hades!

Or go to a decent Indian and **** the Chinese altogether.

[Deleted User]

Supercell wrote: »

No, it isnt, not by a long long way. M&M of O Connell street is the only place that comes close in our experience.
If OP wants to try hot he should fly to China, go to a real Sichuan restaurant and order "Hot Pot", then welcome to the fires of hades!

Hilan on Capel street also does good Chinese dishes but markets itself as a korean bbq place.

GrumpyMe

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.

Jaysus! Next you'll be tellin us that all Italians don't eat fish and chips and batterburgers!:eek:

folan

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